What is "successors"

Usage examples of "successors".

I wonder if they bequeathed that bald-headed anecdote to their successors, the railroad brakemen and conductors, and if these latter still persecute the helpless passenger with it until he concludes, as did many a tourist of other days, that the real grandeurs of the Pacific coast are not Yo Semite and the Big Trees, but Hank Monk and his adventure with Horace Greeley.

Then he had a seal of his own, a ruby from India, cut by the famous goldsmith Dioscurides, which all his successors have used as the token of their sovereignty.

Imperial successors, to the third generation, even, if it so pleased him.

Imperial successors, what did he mean by identifying their fortune so closely with that of the State?

It would be up to that administration to decide what to do, but we had to leave our successors enough to have a reasonable set of choices.

At the very least, because most successors to Saddam would be unlikely to share the personality disorders that make him difficult and dangerous to try to deter, a policy of deterrence might then be more reasonable.

Iraqi elites--either a coalition of groups or a single strongman--and we would not be trying to build a new Iraqi state, society, or economy, the resources we would need to provide would have to be adequate only to allow the successors to consolidate power--a low standard given where they would be starting.

This foul system of cycle after cycleone race overwhelming the previous only to be eventually overwhelmed by successors of their ownmust cease.

His successors continued to wear it for more than eight hundred years.

Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty wilderness, but into a world which in some places was as densely populated as Europe itself, where the culture was complex, where human relations were more egalitarian than in Europe, and where the relations among men, women, children, and nature were more beautifully worked out than perhaps any place in the world.