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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.
We're going to talk about it, because even though it didn't really take long after Roosevelt's hunt in 1902 for the toy to become a full-blown craze, most people figured it was a fad, it was a sort of silly political novelty item and it would go away once the president left office, and so by 1909, when Roosevelt's successor, William Howard Taft, was getting ready to be inaugurated, the toy industry was on the hunt for the next big thing.
He died before construction began, but his successor, Ptolemy I, executed Alexander’s plans for a museum and library.
There'll be a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope; it's called the James Webb Telescope, and it will be launched in 2018.
BG: It's a tradition in American politics that when a President leaves the Oval Office for the last time, he leaves a handwritten note on the desk for his successor that walks in a couple of hours later.
If you had to write such a note to your successor, Filippo Grandi, what would you write?
Odoacer and his Ostrogoth successor Theoderic technically remained under the Eastern Emperor's authority and maintained Roman traditions.
In Mexico, from 1929 to 2000, elections were always rigged; the incumbent president would hand-pick his successor.
And the only option for people at that point is to pass the evolutionary torch to our successor and fade into the background.
So, what we did was: instead of having a staff of artists that are just your wrist, we decided to free up a team of creative designers and engineers to find out what's the successor to the SUV phenomenon in America.
And a group of engineers worked in Germany, and the idea was they would work separately on this problem of what's the successor to the SUV.
I really enjoyed the first movie but this successor is one of the worst movies ever.
In this film, Ernest has to find a successor to Santa Claus in order for Christmas to continue.
Whats worse is his father in law had predicted the 1923 Tokyo disaster and he's been called unworthy to be his successor.
Glen Strange, who was one of Karloff's successor's as the Frankenstein monster, plays the kindly, lovable hired man who is victimized because he trusts the mad doctor.
Those who miss the X-Files just may have a worthy successor.
Luckily, the public appears to have embraced his successor, the excellent David Tennant.
I was lucky enough to catch the film during its brief NYC run and it struck me as a worthy successor to such downtown 80s flicks as Desperately Seeking Susan and After Hours, but with a gentle European whimsey that made it fresh and fun.
It is a worthy successor to the risorgimento classics such as Vischonti's Senso and Il Gattopardo, as well as Rosselini's Vanina,Vanini.
Upon viewing 'return' I can honestly say it's a worthy successor.
This is a clever and entertaining film about the backroom battling that went on to choose a successor to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show.
Whatever attraction the woman had for the greatest Roman of them all, Julius Ceasar, and his successor, Mark Anthony, never seems to come across on the screen as other than the antics of over sexed high school seniors.
I find it incredibly hard to comprehend how Lewis Collins (the hero here) was almost chosen as Roger Moore's successor in the Bond films.... this guy is so expressionless he'd struggle to get a job in a waxwork museum (as a waxwork!!!) Luckily, Judy Davis is on hand to partially redeem the affair with a meaty performance as a hard-line lady terrorist, and there's a climactic ten minute action sequence that is quite competently orchestrated by director Ian Sharp.
Outdated but lovable government 'secret weapon' kills off better designed but heartless successor.
Jackie Chan is considered by many film and martial arts movie fans as one of the greatest action stars ever to grace the silver screen and Police Story cemented his reputation as the likely successor to the late, great Bruce Lee.
A true successor to Tetsuo the Iron Man and Ichi the Killer, this gem starts with a bang and lays the gore on thick until the credits roll.
Some critics have hailed this new movie as a worthy successor to THE GODFATHER, a rash judgment made by several reviewers taken with Mr. Mendes' extraordinary technical prowess.
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