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Predecessor in sentence

462 examples of Predecessor in a sentence

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.
My predecessor meant that.
Director/screenwriter Diane English's 2008 update of George Cukor's 1939 MGM classic comedy unfortunately shows more mothballs than its predecessor.
Easily one of the worst movies ever made, like it's lame predecessor, it goes nowhere fast.
This sequel to "In the Heat of the Night" will suffer in inevitable comparisons to its infinitely better predecessor.
Though I had sort of enjoyed THE SATANIC RITES OF Dracula (1974), I knew I shouldn't expect too much from its even more maligned predecessor!
Supposedly, director William Shatner had in mind a much 'darker' film when it came to 'Star Trek V: The Final Frontier' but the suits at Paramount, looking at the huge box-office receipts taken in by its humor-filled predecessor, insisted the new film have plenty of laughs too.
Even Surpassing the inaneness of it's predecessor (if you can believe that!).
The style is just very different and it focuses on other elements than its predecessor did.
It's not really scary and light years less macabre than its predecessor.
I had been wanting to see An American Werewolf in Paris for a long time because I loved its predecessor, but this film didn't impress me as much as An American Werewolf in London.
Its predecessor, The Screen Savers, was a venue for troubleshooting technology problems and scouting out the latest and greatest in technology.
Compare that with its predecessor's fight scenes that look like they took months and months to prepare.
Saw this last night and being a fan of the first Demons, I had hoped that the sequel would have the same fun, spooky spirit of it's predecessor.
Perhaps the weakest film in the "Kharis" series, despite the presence of John Carradine (miscast as an Egyptian high priest) and George Zucco (as his predecessor, hilariously afflicted by a bad case of Parkinson's Disease) supporting Lon Chaney Jr. as the titular creature - if indeed it was him under the bandages, as his contribution is negligible at best!
Synopsis: the sequel to the acclaimed Silence Of The Lambs, Hannibal is a big budget production that totally fails to deliver; not only is it not as clever as its predecessor, it is not even a splatter or suspense or horror movie, just a totally boring time waster.
A tedious yawn of a film that retains nothing of the zing and raciness of its predecessor, "Gold Diggers of 1933."
The sequel is like its predecessor, completely brain-dead.
Seldom is seen a film sequel that surpasses or even equalls the greatness of it's original predecessor.
Chuck Jones's 'Beep Beep' (so called despite the fact that the Road Runner clearly says "Meep Meep") is the second of the exceptionally popular Road Runner series and is a vast improvement on its predecessor, the historically important but lacklustre 'Fast and Furry-ous'.
Its predecessor, Batman, in my opinion, is by far the greatest and most well thought out of the comic book genre.
However, the last half hour is edge-of-your-seat viewing, the climax atop the Stature of Liberty is very well done, and the film is a clear predecessor of "North By Northwest" (1959).
Like its predecessor, "Batman Returns" enjoyed an enormous commercial success.
Face it, folks-- "DK3" is more challenging, innovative, and clever than its predecessor.
First broadcast in March 1966, "Color Me Barbra" follows a similar format to its predecessor - three segments, the first two with unique concepts.
A middle aged man, Robert Jordan, set in his ways, takes on a boy scout troop after his predecessor leaves under duress.
While I hold its predecessor, "Fast Times At Ridgemont High," as a standard to which other teen comedies should be compared, "The Wild Life" is one of the better lesser known films from that time-and a worthy sequel, if you can call it that.
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