He felt something a little more like sympathy for his predecessor.

"I was new on the scene and trying to save face for my predecessors," he explained.

But this team was no substitute for its brilliant predecessor.

This might be a happy event, but it certainly wasn't for their predecessors.

In many such instances, new executives want a different agency from the one that worked for their predecessors.

That was a fact of life for my predecessors.

I suppose she'd learned the hard way after working for my predecessor Cagney most of her life.

He even expressed a hint of sympathy for his Democratic predecessor.

The album was compiled from the sessions for its predecessor.

I was curious enough to compare the 42nd president's appetite for books with his predecessors'.