Ron Davies, Mr Michael's predecessor as secretary of state for Wales, had been openly campaigning to become first secretary of a devolved Wales in the hope that Mr Michael would fail to win a seat in the Assembly.
According to longstanding principles of international law, when one country has a bilateral treaty with another and is then "succeeded" by a different state (as Russia has succeeded to the rights and duties of the Soviet Union under a number of treaties), the bilateral treaty remains in effect only if both states so affirm--the new state and its predecessor's treaty partner.
Mr Gates, unlike his predecessor, works well with the secretary of state.
In fact, Mr Jospin has sold a lot more state assets than his right-wing predecessor did.
But others, like John Bellinger, the current State Department legal adviser, and his predecessor, William Taft, have long urged a more measured approach.
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The fact that the Tory leader is eager to have his troublesome predecessor out on the stump speaks volumes about the state of his campaign.
France - there is every possibility that centre-right parties will defeat the governing centre-left in parliamentary elections in June - despite the fact that Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has privatised more state companies than his centre-right predecessor.
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Several other challengers, such as Itamar Franco, Mr Cardoso's quirky predecessor, and Ciro Gomes, a soft-left former state governor, seem to be fading.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, is involved in a power struggle with his predecessor, the observers said.
Both GOP candidates agree that the 103 tax increases, including income and sales tax rate hikes, under current Governor Jon Corzine and his predecessor, the disgraced Jim McGreevey, have done great harm to their state.
New Philippine President Benigno Aquino has made his first State of the Nation address, giving a withering critique of his predecessor, Gloria Arroyo.
This state law is a powerful one (and beloved of Mr Cuomo's predecessor as attorney-general, Eliot Spitzer), since it does not require proof of any intent to defraud.
In the decade from 1795 to 1806 for Boston alone he designed the Massachusetts State House and three houses for Harrison Gray Otis (each more original than its predecessor), and worked on a theater, prison, hospital and wharves.
In truth, Mr Erdogan did more than any predecessor to tackle the Kurdish issue, becoming the first Turkish leader publicly to admit that the state made mistakes, and talking to the PKK. But the talks were scrapped last year.
Jim Petro is a politician, a former Attorney General and State Auditor in Ohio, who once dabbled with seeking even higher office (his predecessor, also something of an innovator, Eric Fingerhut, was similar, although Petro is Republican and Fingerhut a Democrat).
In Virginia, Mark Warner, the new Democratic governor, has renewed an old argument by tussling with the governing board installed by his Republican predecessor at the Housing Development Authority, which gives low-interest loans to help residents of the state buy houses.
Penn State President Rodney Erickson, who took over after the scandal led to the removal of his predecessor, said the football program itself wasn't to blame.
The administration's new secretary of state, former Massachusetts senator, John Kerry, is seen as less hawkish on Iran than his predecessor, Hillary Clinton.
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