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Islam was divided between Sunni and Shia after the prophet Muhammad died and a new successor had to be chosen.
But a small dissident group, who would eventually become known as Shia Muslims, were adamant that the new caliph should be a blood relative of the prophet, and thus decided that Muhammad’s son-in-law and cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib (the fourth caliph, according to Sunnis) was his rightful successor.
Neither Greenspan nor his successor, Ben Bernanke, understood how fragile the housing market and the financial system had become after a long period of under-regulation.
An ambitious agenda should be adopted now, at a time when the international community is negotiating the contents of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the successor to the UN Millennium Development Goals, which will expire in 2015.
Now, with questions about President Hosni Mubarak’s successor in the air, Egypt has put aside these talks.
Perhaps Obama thinks that he or his successor can deal with that threat down the road.
Flug was finally offered the top job only in the absence of a male rival, though she was already occupying the position temporarily while the board searched for Stanley Fischer’s successor.
Under his Conservative successor, the actual deficit in that year was 5.9%.
Without India, it is hard to imagine a successful conclusion to the 2009 Copenhagen conference to draft a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol.
What was supposed to be a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the late Kim Jong-il on April 15, and of the regime’s new beginning under his successor, his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, ended up being a funereal salute.
In that case, his successor, the callow Kim Jong-un, can claim to be bound to do as he was told.
For the presidential election to choose a successor to President Eduard Shevardnadze, scheduled for January 4, 2004, offers the country its first real hope since independence in 1991.
His successor, Paul Chan Mo-po, was soon exposed as a one-time owner of slum housing.
Van Rompuy’s higher-profile successor, Donald Tusk, is a good counter-example.
For Janet Yellen – or her successor – it will take courage to forge a different path.
That leaves it up to his successor to find a middle ground that protects American interests, while ensuring that the US does not bear the burden of the world’s conflicts alone.
But his successor, Hu Jintao, has focused on the damage that has come from unrestrained growth.
Summoning Massu’s successor, General Jean Crépin, de Gaulle told him, “The Europeans do not want the Arabs to make a choice, [but] the Muslims do not want to be Bretons.
As we head into the global summit in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the US is once again the focus of concern.
Under US President Ronald Reagan and his vice president and successor, George H. W. Bush, the situation was complicated further by the Iran-Contra scandal, in which senior Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran between 1985 and 1987, despite an arms embargo.
It is rare for a successor – in business or government – to usurp the current leader’s lame-duck status by tipping his hand, so no one can yet say with any certainty whether the new leadership will push for a reformist leap forward or seek to maintain the status quo.
Following World War II, its successor, the Soviet Union, and its Cold War rival, the United States, began their multiple interventions.
Moreover, with the fires in Syria still smoldering, and Iraq weakened by the sectarian struggle for power there, ISIS or some successor incarnation is likely to remain active.
Obama’s successor, Donald Trump, also campaigned on a promise to withdraw from the region.
More importantly, I wonder whether his successor at the SNB – and all other central bankers – is asking the same question.
Weeks later, Nixon’s successor Gerald Ford granted him a full and unconditional pardon for all possible crimes.
Even if Rousseff is impeached, it is far from clear that her successor would have the political will and support to make the necessary economic changes.
The direction the country will take in the longer term can best be assessed by whom Abdullah chooses to name as the successor to Prince Sultan, Naif’s chief ally who has already been named Abdullah’s heir.
Medvedev’s successor (and predecessor) Putin reiterated these promises in 2012.
So, it is worth asking if he thinks his successor will be better suited than he is to carry out the critically important duties of public service.
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