Sentences with phrase «immediate successor»

[v] New York State School Boards Association estimate, assuming 25 percent of contracts expire each year without immediate successor agreements.

She could not say the same about not her immediate successor, Marla Maples, whom President Trump allegedly had an affair with while they were married.

Nothing handcuffs a compensation committee more, and gives an incumbent CEO greater bargaining power during pay negotiations, than a lack of immediate successors, internal or external.

The problem with the mathematical continuum is that there is no immediate successor to any temporal instant in the continuum; hence, the need for occasions of finite duration, the coming to be of which is at once, indivisible.2

The point for us in this context, however, is that the New Testament material as a whole enables us to see that the first Christians, or their immediate successors, did not rest content with affirming that Jesus, in himself, was risen; they went on to say that the activity of God in his self - expression, above all in that self - expression in Jesus, was an abiding reality in the creation.

the comparative study of religion as an academic discipline, his own endeavors marking the past epoch, those of his immediate successors (C. P. Tiele) the second, the «religionsgeschichtliche Schule» the third.

In his time the Caliph was Ma» mun, the son of Harun al - Rashid, a learned man and a good statesman who in many discussions proved the sublime position of Ali and his right to be the immediate successor of Muhammad.

The simplest type of society is one with purely temporal order: it is a series of actual occasions in which each occasion inherits a common form from the preceding member of the society and transmits it to its immediate successor.

Yes, if an event is always so related to its antecedent causal conditions, including causal laws, that these operate as limitations on it, the events of the past molding and restricting their immediate successors — though not deterministically.

Probably one of the least complex «relevant futures» is that for a single occasion in an electron; the aims of such an occasion may reach no further than its immediate successor; if so, no one need suppose that an electronic occasion «cares» whether the electron survives as an enduring object.

His immediate successor, Pope Paul VI, presided over the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council, which gave to the Church many profound teachings on the importance of the family.

The first four Caliphs, the immediate successors of Mohammed are known as Perfect or Orthodox Caliphs (632 - 661).

Even so, Alhazen's experimental method was limited and not carried forward by his immediate successors.

Ferguson took up his seat in the United directors» box after retirement and for a while it seemed that his immediate successor, David Moyes, could have done without that looming presence.

Both his immediate successor, Hailemariam Desalegn, and Meles» long - time de facto deputy Seyoum Mesfin (co-designer of the security and energy policy as minister of foreign affairs for almost two decades) fully supported Zenawi's grand ambitions.

Heastie's office said Acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood, Schneiderman's immediate successor, has been invited to participate.

But the fact that Hague and his immediate successor Ian Duncan Smith are both in the Cabinet should offer him a degree of hope that his frontline career wouldn't be over should he wish to continue outside of the leadership.

That was the pitch of Farage's immediate successor, Paul Nuttall, who saw that UKIP could move into old Labour heartlands to represent the dispossessed and disaffected, speaking for them on a range of issues, not just Europe or immigration.

As was the case immediately following Silver's arrest, an immediate successor to Skelos, if he steps down, isn't obvious.

The problem of sperm competition scarcely occurred to Darwin and his immediate successors.

Today's state - of - the - art, Earth - based telescopes are mammoth structures, with flexible mirrors 10 meters across — devices that would have been completely unimaginable to Galileo and his immediate successors.

Galileo and his immediate successors realized that all the planets were worlds in themselves, kin to our previously unique world, and could all be studied in similar ways.

His immediate successor, Peter Dundas, hired from fellow Milan - glam brand Pucci, lasted only three seasons.

As an immediate successor to # 2, don't tie your happiness solely to a man.

When Fiona's father and King of Far Far Away passes away, the clumsy Shrek becomes the immediate successor of the throne.

«There isn't an immediate successor to the XK,» said Kung.

The Mazda RX - 8 rotary engined sportscar hung up its boots in 2012 with no immediate successor in sight.

Devil's Crush is a pinball video game, and the immediate successor to Alien Crush.

«It was under Alfred the Great and his immediate successors that a unified Anglo - Saxon kingdom was first forged», says game director Jack Lusted.

The open world design that was established in The Legend of Zelda and expanded in its immediate successors has been in an unfortunate state of decline, lately.

For all the love that has been heaped on Final Fantasy VII over the years (and rightfully so), little has been given to its immediate successors on the PlayStation despite the critical acclaim they received at launch.

Their immediate successors included Gilliam, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Melvin Edwards, and Frank Bowling.

Here, the image brings to mind not only collage but its immediate successor in synthetic cubism, where color and pattern animated the work of Picasso and Braque, leaving the monochromes of the analytical period far behind.

Like its immediate successor CJ, it contains footnotes to Canadian common law and English cases, showing that 110 years ago, there really was a North American common law culture.