predecessor

Under the current president and his predecessor, Jett notes, the ambassadorship of Belize has gone to college roommates.

Austin Mahone, the teenage pop star with a more wholesome image than his predecessor Justin Bieber wants to tell you his story.

The 247 was the first airplane really to define the form of a modern airliner, flying faster and higher than any predecessor.

Scott says he last spoke to his predecessor a few days ago, although he never explicitly gave his blessing.

Now Obama needs his predecessor to help prevent a solid Republican Congress from hassling him all the way to January 20, 2017.

The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.

For instance, the North Midland railway, part predecessor of the Midland, was involved in difficulty.

But the victory of Maubeuge nearly cost him his head, as that of Handschtten had done for his predecessor.

The lofty part of his predecessor Ximenes was out of the range, not more of his intellectual, than his moral capacity.

This is Cervantes's description of the national stage in the time of his immediate predecessor, Lope de Rueda.