The King designated Hussein as his successor.
Preparing the Budget is a successor of all other activities.
Yet the President has conspicuously failed to groom a successor.
The chairman has designated her as his successor.
Their current pharaoh is 82 years old, visibly ailing, and has no anointed successor.
Given Goldman's extraordinary success, Mr Paulson's successor will almost certainly be an insider.
David Paterson, his affable successor, was a breath of fresh air.
And he offered some advice for his successor: move quickly to build a cooperative but candid relationship with Chinese leaders.
He argues that Brussels is the new Moscow, the European Union a successor to the Soviet Union.
Since his resignation, he seems to have cast aside those memories to grow increasingly resentful of his successor.
He failed, and any successor who wants to arrest the abolitionist trend is likely also to be frustrated.
Dilma Rousseff, Lula's successor, is trying to rationalise interstate taxes, and has so far refused state governors' request to reintroduce a financial-transactions tax.
"We know that Tony Hayward is leaving his position and he will introduce his successor," Igor Sechin told reporters ahead of his meeting with the embattled BP boss.
His father has also decided that, at least for now, his successor should be referred to in the official propaganda as "Bright Comrade."
To the consternation of some of his supporters, he did accept an award from the ex-KGB officer who became Mr Yeltsin's successor, Vladimir Putin.
The bad news for Bush’s successor, Barack Obama, is that he now faces a much larger and potentially more troubling axis—an axis of upheaval.
The book, which reveals for the first time Mr Blair’s feelings about his successor as prime minister, Gordon Brown, threatened an untimely refocusing of attention on old party divisions.
NO ONE can accuse Howard Schultz of inaction since he returned as chief executive of Starbucks, the firm he built into a multinational only to watch it stumble under his successor.
One of the most startling turn of events was the saga of the arrest of Saif al-Islam, the second son and the man widely seen, until several months ago, as his likely successor.
The prospective indictment of Bill Clinton after he left office: Robert Ray, Starr's successor at OIC, intended to empanel a new grand jury and bring a criminal case against the ex-president.
