Sentence examples for right succession from inspiring English sources

In the 1980's heyday of the cassette, many dedicated music fans made mix tapes, spending hours choosing just the right succession of songs and taping them one by one.

In his youth Frederick served successively as bishop coadjutor (i.e., assistant bishop with the right of succession) of the German dioceses of Bremen, Verden, and Halberstadt.

Sons also take precedence over daughters and the right of succession belongs to the eldest son.

Primogeniture i.e., the right of succession of the eldest son became characteristic of the common law.

This helps to explain why so few ancient Scottish earldoms with their almost unlimited right of succession ever became extinct.

Adolf seized Meissen as a vacant fief and purchased the right of succession in Thuringia from the landgrave Albert.

She was driven less by passion than by her frustration at Elizabeth's refusal to ratify her right of succession.

In December of 1969, after serving as suffragan bishop of Washington, he had been elected bishop coadjutor of New York, an office carrying the right of succession to Donegan's throne.

In 1731 the Treaty of Vienna dissolved the company in return for outright recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction (Maria Theresa's right of succession).

Soon after, Montazeri was stripped of his right to succession, and it was Ali Khamenei a more junior cleric who succeeded Khomeini upon his death in 1989.

When Henry I died at Lyons-la-Forêt in eastern Normandy, his favourite nephew, Stephen of Blois, disregarding Matilda's right of succession, seized the English throne.