Sentence examples for putative predecessor from inspiring English sources

The bad decisions of George Steel, City Opera's last director, were piled on top of those made by Susan L. Baker, the former board chair, and by Gerard Mortier, Steel's putative predecessor, who never actually took up the job.

We found two antibodies with only a single point mutation in the V region of their heavy chain variable domains compared to their putative germline predecessors which bound with high affinity to several Envs.

We have hypothesized that because the germline antibodies are so different from the mature HIV-1-specific bnAbs they may not bind the epitopes of the mature antibodies and provided the first evidence to support this hypothesis by using individual putative germline-like predecessor antibodies.

Did he kill off his predecessors?

The authors prefer a scenario according to which "the capsid gene was transferred from a ssRNA virus to a ssDNA virus in the predecessor of the putative RDHV family".

The fact that the ancestral STR haplotype of the Yakut-specific clade is present among the Tuvinians, Tofalars and Sojots from the eastern Sayan regions [ 46] could point to the putative "homeland" of Yakutian N1c predecessors.

Today's putative liberal imperialists would do well to remember the woeful record of their predecessors.

and her predecessor, Rep.

The putative predisposition of Bermuda's carbonate dunes to rapid cementation is supposed to have curtailed their landward advance such that younger dunes developed as static ridges at the seaward margin of their lithified predecessors.

My predecessor not my predecessor.

And, of course, his predecessor.