Sentence examples for putative successor from inspiring English sources

A putative successor was quick to rule himself out of the reckoning.

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Grand Ayatollah Yousef Sanei, another pro-reformist critic of the regime and a putative successor to Montazeri, is seen as less substantial.

The alternative he offered was a continuation of his father's 42-year rule, with himself as a putative successor, offering reform on his terms.

His putative successor is leading an investigation into some of his shenanigans (a screwy arrangement that also may not last….) LAUREN COLLINS: It's a tough one.

Yet barely had the two men stowed their fishing gear than Sergei Ivanov, Mr Putin's putative successor, repeated the Kremlin's earlier threats.

Unlike Cameron and his putative successors, Jeremy Corbyn's profile has been similarly modest.

Goldman Sachs has seen perhaps 70% of its partners go since its initial public offering in 1999, including two putative successors to its current chief executive.

His first survey shows that 80% of his 20,000 employees understand the strategy and only 20% agree with it, "but I'll persuade them".Mr Welch's other putative successors would say the same.

The scandal brought down Lula's two closest aides, who were also his putative successors: Antonio Palocci, his Finance Minister and the person mainly responsible for maintaining Cardoso's economic policies; and José Dirceu, his chief of staff, another former radical who had been imprisoned in the late nineteen-sixties.

Now, the fear is that an all-out war might break out between the Cali has-beens and their putative successors.On November 5th, a well-dressed man posing as a lawyer strolled on to the football pitch inside the Palmira maximum security prison near Cali.