(Another of his eminent predecessors in the Italian operatic repertoire was the Spaniard Jose Mardones, who had appeared regularly with the Boston and Met companies between 1909 and 1926.)

He proved to be a worthy successor to his eminent predecessors C. R. Reddy and S. Radhakrishnan, who made the Andhra University as one of the best Universities in India.

After a brief relationship, the London Philharmonic has appointed him music director, with powers that such eminent predecessors as Klaus Tennstedt, Sir Georg Solti and Bernard Haitink never possessed.

Since Einstein was responsible for the greatest revolution in physics since Newton, it is not surprising that the literature attacking him is as large and violent as the earlier diatribes against his eminent predecessor.

But dismiss any notion that he is interested in following the well-trod footsteps of some of his eminent predecessors.

But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors: there must always be something artificial about heurism.

In his 1998 series On Giant's Shoulders he interviewed scientists about their eminent predecessors, and from 1999 to 2001 he presented The Routes of English, a series celebrating 1,000 years of the spoken language.

Mr President, for me as a newcomer from one of the new Member States, it was feasible to jump into the chair of the Committee on Budgets because I had an eminent predecessor.

His formal first-floor office is dominated not by the traditional portrait of an eminent predecessor, but by photographs of Nelson Mandela and Paul Robeson.

Most of the actors at La Mama simply cannot be compared to their eminent predecessors.