• The captaincy, meanwhile, had gone to Jimmy Adams and then to Carl Hooper, Lara's immediate predecessor.

    BBC: Windies go for devil they know

  • He agrees with military leaders as well as his immediate predecessor that we ought to do that.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Their leaders are the current head of state and his immediate predecessor.

    ECONOMIST: Congo-Brazzaville

  • Like Borromini, but to a far greater extent, he has suffered in comparison with another artist: in his case, with his immediate predecessor, Caravaggio.

    ECONOMIST: Italian Baroque

  • Her immediate predecessor, Abdurrahman Wahid, tried to ease separatist pressures by introducing greater local autonomy and more local control over tax revenues from natural resources.

    ECONOMIST: War on the separatists

  • Had his immediate predecessor been more protective of our institutions, rights and equities, he would have refused to allow these accords to metastasize as they have.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • The idea was so big that it's overflown into Mountain Lion: More than most operating-system updates, this one riffs on the same concepts as its immediate predecessor.

    CNN: Review: Mac's Lion adventure continues

  • But the death of Mr. Libi was a major loss for the group, in a year of high-level killings that included bin Laden and Mr. Libi's immediate predecessor, they said.

    WSJ: Drone Strike Kills al Qaeda No. 2

  • On the other hand, on most issues, there is substantive continuity between Obama's Middle East policies and those his immediate predecessor, George W. Bush, adopted during his second term in office.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Exploiting the crisis

  • His immediate predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, came of age in Nazi Germany and, like other people of his generation, was a member of the Hitler Youth and served in the German military.

    CNN: Argentina a complex crucible for Pope

  • The Microsoft antitrust case, decided by her immediate predecessor, Mario Monti, was one of the first and biggest items in Kroes' in-tray when she became head of the European Competition Commission in 2004.

    FORBES: EU's Hard Line Cows Microsoft

  • The other was his immediate predecessor, Frank Rijkaard.

    WSJ: The End of the Pep Guardiola Era

  • After three and a half years in office -- and much more gray hair -- (laughter) -- I have a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by the Presidents who came before me, including my immediate predecessor, President Bush.

    WHITEHOUSE: Unveiling the Official President Bush Portrait

  • What the outcry at Lieberman's remarks - from both Livni and her domestic supporters, and the international community - makes clear is that it will be exceedingly difficult for the Netanyahu government to walk away from the anti-Israel positions adopted by its immediate predecessor.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ending Israel's conditional legitimacy

  • The company identified 17 products that met its standard of providing "significant and measurable environmental performance advantages, " including a Lexan film that replaces conventional paint, Harmony water-conserving washing machines, the new fuel-efficient GEnx jet engine and GE's Evolution locomotive, a 208-ton, 4, 400hp workhorse that burns 3% less fuel and puts out 40% less pollution than its immediate predecessor.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In fact, Obama's team believes that their boss has already trumped both the Great Communicator and Obama's immediate Democratic predecessor.

    CNN: Analysis: Obama takes 'morning in America' mantle

  • But Gatland's predecessor Gareth Jenkins was sacked in the immediate aftermath of Wales' 2007 Rugby World Cup pool exit following their shock 38-34 defeat to Fiji in Nantes.

    BBC: Warren Gatland concedes Wales Rugby World Cup sack fear

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