Predecessor in example sentence

In the pro-war petition, Yu Jie and others made an explicit link between Iraq and China, likening Saddam Hussein, to his "colleague and predecessor," Mao Zedong, who "disguised the illegitimacy of his authoritarian regime in the name of the people."

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Licinia fully understands now why her predecessor was buried alive.

Here's the Architecture Machine Group, the predecessor of the Media Lab, in 1981.

And when I first came across it in the early '90s, I thought my predecessor, Malcolm Dyson and Bob Wright, had really taken leave of their senses, and I’ll explain to you why this was the case.

He did not, happily, follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, and tell us to just go shopping.

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