The new Liberal Democrat member says "not a single person" thought he would succeed in Edinburgh.
Pending Senate confirmation, he would succeed retired General David Petraeus, who resigned in November after admitting to an extramarital affair with his biographer.
He could not wait to see if he would succeed Buffett in order to become a member of the ruling class in America.
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Meanwhile, MacDonald has admitted that he is unsure whether he would want to succeed Martin O'Neill as manager on a permanent basis.
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Mr Murdoch may sympathise with Mr Redstone, for he too has had troubled relations with his relations especially those who at times he has hoped would succeed him.
But the deputy prime minister replied only to say that he hoped the reforms would succeed.
Mr. Gates said he doubted that diplomacy would succeed in persuading Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons.
As part of the divorce he promised his first wife that he would position Shari to succeed him as chairman of both public companies.
To succeed, he would have to unite the warring factions of the LDP -- a difficult task at the best of times.
Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian president, has also said he would like the peace process to succeed, but the veteran leader is being shunned by both America and Israel for his alleged support of violence.
He was sure that he would hire all the right people to help him succeed, which was true, and that he knew how to manage those people, which was not true.
Under the constitution, the vice-president would succeed Mr Suharto if he died in office.
Indeed, one cynical interpretation of Mr Reid's actions doing the rounds this week was that he knew all along that neither bill would succeed and is motivated entirely by posturing for the mid-terms.
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But even then Mr Ramos skirted the direct question of whether he would or would not stand for re-election should moves to change the constitution succeed.
Cakarel says he knew that if he was going to succeed in his quest to bring quality cinema to the global village he would have to enlist some of the industry's top brass.
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He hasn't declared a candidacy but regularly appears at mayoral forums and speaks about what he would do if New Yorkers elected him to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
But when Lawrence looked at his ragtag band of Bedouin fighters he realized that a direct attack on Medina would never succeed.
He did say he would be focused on operational efficiency, critical for the strategy to succeed.
Julia Pierson, formerly Secret Service chief of staff, will succeed Mark Sullivan, who announced last month that he would retire.
When Hurd was first named to the job in 2005, he said the final judgment of his tenure would be whether an outsider would succeed him to the top spot.
He said the "right to move" was just an idea at the moment but he would pass a law bringing it into effect if the other measures did not succeed in increasing the mobility of tenants.
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Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said his government would never surrender to Kurdish militants but he was cautiously hopeful that the talks could succeed.
Were he to succeed in doing so, many of the hundreds of corporate members of the organization would stand to benefit materially, as might Lawson himself.
He said the Taliban's strategy centred on sapping the will of the public but they would only succeed "if we lose our resolve".
He did all the due diligence and many people gave him all the many reasons why the company would not succeed.
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He warned that attempts by a tiny minority of so-called dissidents to return Northern Ireland to violence would not succeed.
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At that event, he castigated the motion picture industry for its lawsuit against distributors of DeCSS and said he hoped that commercial companies would fill the need in the event that the MPAA and DVD Copy Control Association suits succeed.
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