Sentences with phrase «much of a successor»

Whilst hardcore players of the previous Fallout titles will have you believe that Fallout 3 isn't much of a successor, Fallout 3 takes the best things from the first 2 Fallout games and adds them to the best things from Oblivion, delivering one of the best RPGs I've ever played.

Not exact matches

But Job's successor, Tim Cook, has instead spent much of the past three years tinkering with Apple's existing product line - up — bigger iPhones, smaller iPads, improved software — and massively growing sales by pushing into huge new markets like China.

Others wait to see what the lay of the land will be like closer to a campaign before hastily saying goodbye, only to end up forcing their successor to face the music without much time to make an impression.

Kenney didn't want much to do with Red Tories when former prime minister Joe Clark and his ilk decried the 2003 merger; Kenney's historical retelling of of Alberta Toryism includes Peter Lougheed and Ralph Klein while ignoring Klein's more progressive successors, Ed Stelmach and Alison Redford.

Rather, as claimed by Clement of Alexandria and, with much greater intellectual power, Origen, his pupil and successor as head of the Alexandrian Catechetical school, Christianity is paideia, divinely given in Jesus Christ and inspired Christian scriptures, focused in a profound conversion of soul, and divinely assisted by the Holy Spirit.

Certainly the J and E writers and their successors who made so much of the idea did not create it out of pure imagination.

It was the successor of the pagan festivals, but still something new, because the news was so much more unambiguously good than anything the pagans ever heard.

Concerning the Successor of St Peter's authoritative affirmation of the «extraordinary» status of the older form of Mass it asserts that: «To suggest that a Mass devised before the Second Vatican Council has the same value as one devised afterwards is to send a signal that nothing the Council did made much difference.

I feel bad for Pope Francis, im not even catholic but ever since he has become the successor of Pope John Paul II he has been getting so much crap for everything.

Gödel may have seen himself as a successor to Leibniz, whose critique of Spinoza's atheism set a precedent for much of Gödel's work.

Off topic I may be giving the arsenal management structure too much credit but if Wenger did plan to leave and his successor is one of the possible managers still competing in the CL would that club ask us to wait to announce until the team in question is knocked out?

He has always stated that if given the full financial backing of the Board Wenger would have performed much better in recent years, and even now he respects that Wenger should be given the opportunity to prepare his successor before he leaves.

As much as I would agree with you that Simeone is a top manager and ultimately would possibly make us contentious again, his style of play is so at odds with the typical Arsenal way that he is not my favourite possible successor to Arsene Wenger.

The campaign could not have gone much better considering that Herrlich, the former Germany U-19 coach, was quite far down the potential list of successors to Roger Schmidt after Thomas Tuchel had turned down the club's advances.

Ever since the sacking of Jose Mourinho, there was much speculation as to who would replace him at Chelsea, and whether or not his successor

Time will tell and all football supporters should thank AW for what he did not so much for Arsenal but English football all should wish him well but for the sake of his successor he really would be well advised not to be involved in the background.

Diarist and former Labour politician Chris Mullin was sceptical about MPs producing their own literature covering what they've been doing in office, telling the room that his successor (MP for Sunderland Central Julie Elliott), «publishes a brochure, from party funds» but this kind of thing is «vanity publishing» and «doesn't advance your knowledge very much... [but] I wouldn't object to anything pretty basic and bland.»

She is eligible to seek selection for Bradford West (against Naz Shah), in Spen (against Jo Cox's successor) or in Pudsey, where Rachel Reeves will likely also be seeking the nomination (Leeds West vanishes, but Pudsey takes much of its territory and becomes a notionally Labour seat) Sheffield.

There's loads of buzz about reconfiguring Rep. Charles Rangel's Harlem congressional district — not so much to help him get re-elected next year, but to save his seat for the man seen as his handpicked successor, Manhattan Democratic Chairman and longtime Assemblyman Keith Wright.

«You're not going to have to tell Jimmy much,» Bratton said of his successor.

The calibre of the potential successors to Major was also much higher.

Shnayerson also tries to pin down just how much, if anything, Andrew, had to do with the unlucky fortunes of former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros, Cisneros's most likely successor Seattle mayor Norm Rice, and former governors Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson.

HARLEM — U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, who announced his retirement last year, doesn't think much of his would - be successors.

Mr. Hamilton — a longtime Democratic district leader — has the backing of Mr. Adams and much of the Kings County Democratic establishment, and a source told the Observer that the mayor's choice to back Mr. Dorancy is a snub of the borough president and his effort to determine his own successor.

Disgraced ex-Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's long reign in Lower Manhattan is finally over — voters booted his favored successor from his old seat tonight, instead picking a relative newcomer to the district supported by much of the larger Democratic establishment.

Anticipating this prospect, the NDC has made much of the fact that, as vice president to Kufuor, Aliu Mahama, also a Northerner, failed to secure the NPP's nomination for a flagbearer - successor to Kufuor.

The much - anticipated James Webb Space Telescope — often referred to as Hubble's successor — for example, will likely only study worlds that hug their host stars, making observations of planets with wider orbits like Mars or even Earth out of the question.

As Brown neared his 90th birthday in 1963, his successor at the museum, Edwin Colbert, marveled at how much of the museum was Brown's single - handed work: «There are, in our Tyrannosaur Hall, 36 North American dinosaurs on display....

I heard of IEDs that the MRAP and the JERRV vehicles — MRAP is Mine Resistant Ambush Protected; it's the successor to the Humvee — what's happening now is, most of the Humvees are being given to the Iraqi army and U.S. forces are traveling in these things called MRAPs; they are much more heavily armored.

An influential group of US astronomers has laid out its vision for the biggest and best space telescope yet — a worthy successor to the much - loved Hubble Space Telescope that some say could cost US$ 10 billion or more.

We're now just one month away from the much - anticipated release of Gravel, Milestone's new arcade rally racer IP that has the potential to be a spiritual successor to the...

But it's much more fizzy and action - packed than its successor, rife with slapstick comedy and some very broad, uncomfortable racial humor centered on the exchange - student character of Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe).

It's in many ways a true successor to «Following,» in the same neo-noir milieu (though this time a gloriously lit California, courtesy of Wally Pfister, in their first collaboration), and with an even more intricate structure; Shelby's story is told backwards, from his execution of pal Teddy to a beginning / ending that reveals that much of what little he knows about his existence is a lie.

While this is still the case, many members of the Crimson Skies team are working together on a new game that seems very much like the spiritual successor to this beloved title.

As a big fan of Super Sprint and all of its sequels and spiritual successors, I must say that BlazeRush makes me realise just why I love these games so much.

Of course we'd still want to see Nintendo's handheld lines (3DS and its successor), still get a healthy and heavy dose of new Fire Emblem titles, but it will also be great to see a similar thing happen with regards to the Switch and it sounds like that is very much the casOf course we'd still want to see Nintendo's handheld lines (3DS and its successor), still get a healthy and heavy dose of new Fire Emblem titles, but it will also be great to see a similar thing happen with regards to the Switch and it sounds like that is very much the casof new Fire Emblem titles, but it will also be great to see a similar thing happen with regards to the Switch and it sounds like that is very much the case!

When it became a hit, much like 101 Dalmatians had six years earlier, the successors of Walt and his brother Roy (who passed away in 1971) seemed to believe that the way to honor the studio's legacy was with jaunty animal musical comedies.

While there are more things to do in Ground Zeroes» acclaimed successor, The Phantom Pain, the levels of that game are much bigger game are much more open and empty.

With three months left in Thomas W. Payzant's decade - long tenure as superintendent of the Boston schools, those charged with finding a successor are getting an earful from scholars, community groups, and civic leaders as they consider how much of a change agent the district needs.

There will, of course, be much to study about Klein and his legacy over the next several weeks (years)-- just as there will be much speculation about what Klein's successor, Cathleen Black, chairwoman of Hearst Magazines and another non-educator, will do with the reins of Gotham's $ 23 billion school system.

One state secretary of education, former Black Alliance for Educational Options boss Gerard Robinson, left the job after a year of getting little done to become Florida's school chieftain; Robinson's successor, Laura Fornash, hasn't had much success either.

The MX - 5 Miata can only carry so much of the company's Zoom - Zoom spirit, and there's no sign of an RX - 7 / RX - 8 successor, so Mazda needs another performance car to keep enthusiasts returning to showrooms.

We've heard rumors that a replacement for the Lexus LFA is already in development, with former LFA engineer Haruhiko Tanahashi suggesting that the successor would come in at much more accessible price point than that of the $ 375,000 LFA.

Its successor shouldn't have much trouble improving on that, but I'm skeptical about its ability to attain the popularity of its BMW and Mercedes rivals.

Combined with a 365bhp twin - turbo straight - six engine, you have a car BMW is labelling as a spiritual successor to the likes of the original E30 M3 and much loved 1M Coupe.

This is one view of the new BMW 4 - series coupe — successor to the much - loved 3 - series coupe.

As a result of Citroën's purchase of the Italian company, it was a much different car from its predecessor and its successors: built on an extended Citroën SM chassis, it featured front wheel drive and Citroën's hydropneumatic suspension and swivelling directional headlights.

The new F - Type is the successor of the Jaguar E-Type, one of the world's most legendary roadsters and now a much sought - after collectible around the world.

My drive did little to make me think I'd think much about the Journey when it's gone, but rather to put its Italian - based successor square back into my radar's field of vision.

After much rumour and speculation, Ford dropped jaws in Detroit today with the debut of its successor to the Ford GT.