predecessors

While he’s charged officers in shootings far more frequently than his predecessors, those cases have often ended in acquittals, dismissals or plea deals with minimal jail time.

So the prime minister is trying to engage more closely with China, and at the very least be more consistent than his predecessors.

But beneath that is a simmering anger about ministers’ perceived ignorance about the countryside - and a sense from many farmers of being persistently let down, by this government and its predecessors.

The new research found that current groups of a mother and two small children now collaborated among all members of the group about half as often as their predecessors 30 years ago did.

But in other ways, he will come into office more aware than his predecessors of the inner workings because he is the only president aside from Grover Cleveland to win nonconsecutive terms.