Sentence examples for probable successor from inspiring English sources

Chris Rix, a redshirt freshman, is the probable successor.

His deputy and probable successor, Nicola Sturgeon, is much further to the left.

From that time, Van Buren was generally recognized as the probable successor of Jackson as president.

On Friday night, Mr. Wahid's main rival and probable successor, Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri, rejected his offer to share power.

Finally, the man in the frame as Mr Zhou's probable successor is cut from the same cloth.

During the campaign, he openly and unexpectedly referred to his interior minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, as his probable successor.

So anybody who now tries to rank his probable successors is at risk of looking ridiculous.

(For that matter, long before they took over last year, both Hank and Hal were at different times seen as probable successors as well).

From an automotive manufacturer point of view, polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells have evolved, over the past couple of decades, from a laboratory experiment to one of the most probable successors to the internal combustion engine.

And barring a drastic upturn in hiring and spending, it's highly probable that his successor — quite possibly his deputy Janet Yellen — will continue with the policy of quantitative easing for at least another year, though they may cut it back a little.

It has been suggested that this Adam was Adam de Brechin, probable son of Henry de Brechin's successor William de Brechin (died between 1286 and 1294), who held benefices in the see of Brechin in 1274.