China's leadership succession that began last autumn is now complete.
Even worse, this was the third World Cup in succession that has been seriously flawed.
That appointment completed a formal leadership succession that began in November, when he succeeded Mr. Hu as Communist Party chief.
Instead, it issued a statement about executive succession that did not mention Mr. Mulally or Mr. Fields by name.
The British and the French participated in the wars of succession that followed his death in 1748.
Egypt was in the throes of a battle for succession that would paralyse it as a regional player.
But it is the loss of the two diners in quick succession that has amplified the effect.
Lemass's retirement in 1966 caused an internal party conflict over the succession that led to Lynch's selection as a compromise candidate, a position he reluctantly accepted.
He executed one of the most brilliantly engineered successions in history, a succession that was at the same time a self-entrenchment.
It requires at least three bishops who are considered part of the historic episcopate -- the succession that reaches back to St. Peter.
Following a slippery line of succession that included several temporary governments, some of which lasted less than three weeks, François (Papa Doc) Duvalier assumed the Presidency, in 1957.
