Sentences with phrase «chosen as his successor»

His nearest relation was his cousin Ali, who had married one of his daughters, but the majority of the community chose as his successor Abu Bakr, who was one of his first followers.

For Maduro in particular, who enjoys his party's support only insomuch as Chávez chose him as his successor, any move seen as a concession to the opposition and «capitalist enemies» would be political suicide.

That Haqqani, whose network has been responsible for some of the highest - profile attacks of the Afghan war, was not chosen as successor is an important indication of the direction the Taliban intends to take.

In a statement that hardly gives whoever is chosen as his successor as Labour candidate a boost, he tells his local paper that he wanted to «quit while I'm ahead».

Where a Prime Minister chooses to resign from his or her individual position at a time when his or her administration has an overall majority in the House of Commons, it is for the party or parties in government to identify who can be chosen as the successor (p. 15).

Not exact matches

He cited income inequality, an issue in the presidential campaign to choose his successor in November, as well as disparities in unemployment, pay and criminal justice.

The reason Man Utd had such a hard time after he left was (1) Ferguson is among, if not THE greatest club manager in football history, which is a tough act to follow for anybody, and (2) He chose David Moyes as his successor.

If this were the case then for the first time in a lifetime someone else will be making the decisions and if this is the case they may well choose to sign no one this window, instead doing the negotiations for signings as soon as the season is over and after liaising with Wenger's successor.

If it comes to the summer I can see him choosing to join chelsea as terry successor plus he would have his other young French cb in zouma to form a long term partnership

The time spent at Manchester United, as Ferguson's chosen successor, was always going to be a difficult gig and it was a relative failure rather than an absolute one.

Diego Simeone has been touted as a potential successor for Wenger, but according to the Atletico Madrid manager's son Simeone is likely to choose Inter instead.

His successor as mayor of London, Labour's Sadiq Khan, who has clashed with the US president in the past over London terror attacks and Mr Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the US, tweeted the president would experience a city that chose «unity over division».

Absolutely, Obama should definitely dismantle his robust reelection machine and drop all of his challenges in the lap of his Secretary of State — whom he defeated in the 2008 primaries — and crown her as his Chosen Successor.

Crowley's predecessor, Thomas Manton, announced his retirement after petitioning was over, and then called up Crowley to tell him that Manton had chosen Crowley as his successor.

She was Congressman Adriano Espaillat's chosen successor for the Senate seat after he got elected to Congress and is already seen as vulnerable.

The chieftains, whom among were Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, Bolaji Aretola and Mrs. Funmilayo Adeniran, specifically advised the governor to choose the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Suraj Adekunbi, as his successor.

Previously, Welsh Conservative MPs have urged the Prime Minister to choose an MP with a Welsh seat as her successor.

But if Clegg goes down, the Liberal Democrats will need to think carefully as they choose a successor.

These are the «open» seats, as are those in three other races: District 21 Council Member Julissa Ferreras - Copeland announced she would not be running for reelection, opening up her seat for a competitive battle; in District 44, Council Member David Greenfield made a relatively late announcement that he will not seek reelection, but he is expected to be replaced by his chosen successor and close ally Kalman Yeger; and in District 28, Ruben Wills was recently removed from office when he was convicted on federal public corruption charges — there is a crowded competition to replace him.

When I interviewed Farage a couple of weeks ago he virtually annointed Suzanne Evans as his chosen successor.

While the majority of the district is in Manhattan, a spokesperson for the Brooklyn Democratic Party noted to Gotham Gazette that the seat has historically been held by a Brooklyn resident, and choosing a Brooklynite as Squadron's successor is important to the party.

In September 1985, the party leadership election chose Pierre - Marc Johnson as his successor.

For years it's been assumed that longstanding deputy town supervisor, Democrat Bruce LaMonda would be Leifeld's chosen successor, even though he's been in office nearly as long as the Leifeld (not including Berndt's other terms, a previous eleven years as a town councilman) and is currently in his early 70s.

That means Energy Secretary Steven Chu may soon have to decide whether to let Majumdar retain his current job as founding director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) or choose a successor.

NASA has officially chosen the infrared - space telescope as the scientific successor to the James Webb Space Telescope, with a projected launch date around the 2024 timeframe.

A fairly important job then, although our nameless hero seems to take very little time in choosing city centre pick - pocket Kar (Scott) as his successor.

As such, he was supposed to become the Black Panther, who is basically Wakanda's chosen protector but T'Challa took the mantle to avenge his father, which Kilmonger views as T'Challa stealing his purpose, since once a warrior swears the oath and becomes the Panther, they're bonded until the warrior is slain or grooms a successoAs such, he was supposed to become the Black Panther, who is basically Wakanda's chosen protector but T'Challa took the mantle to avenge his father, which Kilmonger views as T'Challa stealing his purpose, since once a warrior swears the oath and becomes the Panther, they're bonded until the warrior is slain or grooms a successoas T'Challa stealing his purpose, since once a warrior swears the oath and becomes the Panther, they're bonded until the warrior is slain or grooms a successor.

I always wonder why he chooses to use Zelda as his mold for building successors.

Greeting her at the door where they're sitting Shiva is Rabbi Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), her father's disciple / surrogate son, her childhood friend, soon to be chosen as her father's successor.

But when the station's longtime anchor (Harrison Ford, hair - sprayed and gravelly) announces he's retiring, he chooses Veronica as his successor, sending Ron into a tailspin.

Chong - Hao Fu, Leading Educators» current Chief Learning Officer, has been unanimously chosen by the board of directors as Chartock's successor.

Meanwhile McDonnell gave his now - former Secretary of Education, Gerard Robinson, little in the way of political backing or cover to push for any significant reforms; instead of seeking out a strong reformer with national credentials (which he could have actually found living in the state's northern region near Washington, D.C.), McDonnell chose as Robinson's successor, Laura Fornash, who has more experience with higher education than with K - 12.

Nan Ryan, Assistant Head of School, will be acting as Head of School at the Louisiana Type - 2 charter school until the Board meets in a special meeting later this week to choose Amato's interim successor.

However, in the interest of consolidating its products, Land Rover chose to badge the Freelander successor as a «Discovery».

He chooses Satoru Iwata, # 11 in Board hierarchy as his successor.

It has also been described as a «spiritual successor,» although it's unclear why Ubisoft chose to call it that.

The Queen has chosen your sister as her successor but are her promises too good to be true?

«Whoever is chosen as de Boer's successor will above all need to be able to build trust between major industrialized and developing economies,» Kenber said.

Although not explicitly characterized as a data localization law, the European Union's Data Protection Directive — and its successor, the General Data Protection Regulation — may be viewed as encouraging data localization, as some data controllers may choose to store and process data within the EU in order to avoid the Directive's strict requirements for transferring personal data to non-EU countries.

Salmon argues that Zuckerberg — who is all - powerful as Facebook's CEO and chairman of the board — has lost the public trust and needs to «hit the reset button» on Facebook before leaving the helm to a hand - chosen successor.