Sentence examples for successful predecessor from inspiring English sources

Bullen is eager to avoid invidious comparisons between his new drama and its immensely successful predecessor.

"Is there a remake that is superior to its successful predecessor" (Leaders, January 29)?

A more successful predecessor, the Horn & Hardart Automat offering hot food, was supplanted by fast-food franchises.

Like its successful predecessor, 2010's God-fearing Praise & Blame, Spirit in the Room is an album of covers.

With only one clue to locate the lost family – the phase "The jewel of Monterey, California" that Dory mutters in her sleep – the film is shaping up to be similar to its successful predecessor.

First, Sony depends disproportionately on video games to pay for all its other problems: PS3 has to be a winner, if it is to replace the revenue stream generated by PS2, its ageing but hugely successful predecessor.

The chancellor, according to the Labour leader, had evoked memories of his more or less successful predecessors, such as Nigel Lawson, who was up in the gallery.

Fermi carries two instruments, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), which work in the energy range of 10 keV to 300 GeV (10,000 to 300,000,000,000 electron volts) and are based on highly successful predecessors that flew on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) in the 1990s.

The EDC hopes that Osborne's £312m investment will help persuade housebuilders to speed up development and allow it to insist on high design standards, which will produce a new town to rank alongside successful predecessors such as Milton Keynes and Letchworth.

Ask your department chair if you might look at portfolios (the documentation of research, teaching, and service) of successful predecessors.

Instead the entrepreneurship scholar might learn much more from successful predecessors by studying how they solved the problems any start-up entrepreneur faces.