Successor
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Felix Houphouet-Boigny’s rule lasted more than 30 years, until his death in 1993, when power passed to his handpicked
successor
, Henri Konan Bedie.
More example sentences with word successor
Compassion is a worthy
successor.
Goering was Hitler's second in command in World War II, his designated
successor.
They didn't want to call him "king," in case that gave him ideas, or his
successor
ideas.
In 64 years of running the largest country in the world, the range of the Party's policies has been wider than any other country in recent memory, from radical land collectivization to the Great Leap Forward, then privatization of farmland, then the Cultural Revolution, then Deng Xiaoping's market reform, then
successor
Jiang Zemin took the giant political step of opening up Party membership to private businesspeople, something unimaginable during Mao's rule.
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