He inherited Carnival and the Heat from his father, Ted, who died in 1999.
The Barcelona team he inherited had won the Champions League just three years earlier.
Education Minister David Coltart says he inherited a catastrophic system when he took over in February.
Obama apologists cannot argue that this is because the recession he inherited was so bad.
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He inherited a team of able prosecutors and helped them to do the people's work.
Murdoch senior built the company up from one Australian newspaper he inherited at 23.
Few would have anticipated that scenario when he inherited the role following Roberto Di Matteo's departure.
But judging him by that metric is not fair given the nightmare he inherited.
He inherited his title following the death of his father in March last year.
The rail structure he inherited means that this choice cannot be delayed much longer.
When Enda Kenny became Prime Minister of Ireland in February 2011 he inherited a mess.
He inherited a system of a split, but we have got to make better use of it.
Mr. Obama chose to see the government he inherited and grow it faster than any President since LBJ.
Since 2009, Obama has generally lived within the policy framework that he inherited from President George W. Bush.
Medvedev has people with the same vested interests standing in the way who he inherited from a previous regime.
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He inherited little, but worked hard and earned much, embodying hope and inspiration.
Roger Smith, with all his visions of robotic factories, failed completely, leaving behind a worse mess than he inherited.
The paper he inherited was parochial and conservative, reflecting the city it served.
Martin Narey said he inherited prisons which were a "nightmare" in the run-up to the murder of inmate Zahid Mubarek.
He inherited a team given little chance to compete and turned them into a .500 squad in his first season.
The 28.5m euros worth of debt he inherited after winning local elections in May was twice what he had expected.
In business circles, Premji is credited with transforming a cooking oil company he inherited from his father into a software colossus.
The governor said he inherited a banking sector that had been the victim of "unnecessary and in some cases reckless" expansion.
When he became president in 2003, Lula stuck to the sound fiscal policies he inherited from his predecessor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Bulriss knew it needed work, but the company he inherited was in much worse shape than either he or Wall Street realized.
He inherited more of his temperament from his grandfather, the driving, autocratic Emperor Meiji, than from his sickly, dilettante father, Emperor Taisho.
The levels he inherited from the Tories are extremely tight (see chart).
He inherited both the initial stages of recovery and a deficit problem.
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Yamauchi had transformed Kyoto-headquartered Nintendo from the obscure playing-card company he inherited from his grandfather into a leading global maker of game consoles.
But has he inherited the business sense, tenacity and strategic thinking that enabled his father to build Hyundai into South Korea's biggest chaebol?
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