Sentence examples for successors before from inspiring English sources

Gates served as deputy to his successors before taking over in 1978.

She was Rowan Atkinson's Flemish mother in The Black Adder (1983), judged unsuccessful at the time and screened less often than its successors, before playing the Brazilian aunt in Charley's Aunt (Aldwych, 1983), starring Atkinson's former colleague Griff Rhys Jones.

As an MP, Mensch swore an oath to be "be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors" before taking up her seat in parliament.

Though that music melts into a vague chordal haze when Ms. Anderson begins her freewheeling ruminations, it creates an atmosphere that lingers nearly until the first instrumental interlude, a piece of raucous, thick-textured techno that will have a handful of kindred-spirit successors before the end of the 90-minute work.

Later ancient writers speak of Carneades as founding the third or New Academy, which followed the second or Middle Academy of Arcesilaus and the first or Old Academy of Plato and his successors before Arcesilaus.

The board must now scramble to pick a successor before he leaves.

Mr. Forstmann designated Mr. Robertson as his successor before he died, these people said.

Mr. Yim said the orchestra wanted to decide on Mr. Mehta's successor before making a permanent appointment.

Blair, unlike other Western leaders, paid an obsequious visit to Yeltsin's handpicked successor before the Russian election.

The Jets' three-loss finish soured Coach Al Groh's record (9-7) as Bill Parcells's successor before Groh resigned yesterday.

This was the final day of President Emile Lahoud's term of office, and the Lebanese parliament was constitutionally bound to elect a successor before that deadline.