And he has not been bashful about picking the brains of several of his distinguished predecessors.

"My distinguished predecessor for whom this room is named was really a fascinating guy," he says.

An entire constellation of scholars of the new generation emerged, who continued the work of their distinguished predecessors.

He had two distinguished predecessors, with remarkably similar views.

Producers need to understand a given singer's strengths and weaknesses, and artists should embrace lessons of their distinguished predecessors.

If you are a priest, do you mention that your most distinguished predecessor wrote lyrical and sensual love poetry?

Suter's writings were largely modeled on those of his distinguished predecessor, Captain Hutton.

One of my distinguished predecessors used to say, 'Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.'

However, the F-82 played a secondary role in Korea as compared with its distinguished predecessor, the single-engined F-51.

It is roughly 4,000,000,000 milliseconds, and we spent them the way our distinguished predecessors did.