Predecessor in example sentence

By contrast, the younger Hu has narrowed the public space for political discourse that had opened up during the latter years of his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, when market pressure was forcing media outlets to be more daring and wide-ranging.

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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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