He might be painted as a victim of the success
enjoyed by his predecessors Mauricio Pochettino and Ronald Koeman but Puel's team struggled at home, winning just six matches.
The current first lady's favorable rating has yet to match
those enjoyed by her predecessor Laura Bush, who left the White House in 2009 with a 76 % favorable rating, down marginally from her high of 80 % in 2005.
A worthy trilogy closer that suffers without the element of surprise
enjoyed by its predecessors but still manages to leave a sweet taste in the mouth.
But another explanation of the same phenomenon is that technical expertise is sought because today's politicians, as managers of public life but lacking the moral authority
enjoyed by their predecessors, need them where they previously enjoyed a mandate from the public.
Not exact matches
In this situation the temptation of ministers to become business managers is balanced
by the opposite temptation to maintain the kind of status and authority their
predecessors enjoyed in more hierarchically ordered society.
This column has several times commented on the extended honeymoon the present Holy Father has
enjoyed in liberal circles; as Piers Paul Read commented in The Spectator, traditionalist Catholics had begun to be «dismayed» at this: «Had Pope Benedict forgotten what he had said in his address at the funeral of his
predecessor... about the danger posed
by moral relativism?
While
enjoying Monte Carlo, I'm struck
by the difference from its Masters 1000
predecessors.
It's one of the main reasons I
enjoy games from the N64 era that,
by any objective measure, have aged much worse than their 2D
predecessors.
Titanfall 2 improved on its
predecessor by adding a robust single player campaign, which meant players could
enjoy bounding about in giant mechs solo or with friends.