In terms of effects and spectacle, Superman Returns tops all of its predecessors with extravagant set-pieces featuring the latest digital trickery.
The Model T improved on such predecessors with a series of small refinements (such as cushioned seats), making it suitable for family transportation and capable of going 40-45 mph.
While acknowledging that a CDO's results can be difficult to quantify, Ms. Moats, who is Mexican-American, credits her predecessors with the recent increase in female leaders at the firm.
The success was mainly brought on by strong sales of GALAXY S III and GALAXY Note II, which beat the popularity of their predecessors with record sales in record time.
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In both 1992 and 1999, the National Union and its predecessors were faced with two choices.
But Pope Francis will have to be more brutal than his predecessors in dealing with clerical abuse and corruption, and that may bring with it an episcopal backlash.
Too often, he thinks, his predecessors courted popularity with loose monetary and fiscal policies, only to be forced into abrupt reversals when inflation shot up and financial markets expressed disapproval.
Yet the administration must be more willing than any of its predecessors to share intelligence with Congress.
We should have seen this coming after Sony explained that the PlayStation 4 would not be natively backwards compatible with its predecessors.
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"After carefully considering the statute and its consequences, both intended and unintended, I concur with the attorney general, who has aligned herself with her predecessors, " he said.
It would have been easy for Mr. Holder to concur with his predecessors-in fact, it was critical that he do so to preserve the Justice Department's impartiality.
Many Argentines believe that the IMF, having been criticised for backing the fixed exchange rate long past its useful life, was slower and sterner with Mr Duhalde than with his predecessors.
True, America's influence over Israel has never been as great as many Arabs would believe, yet the Clinton administration has been notably less willing than its predecessors to get tough with Israel.
On more than a few occasions during my tenure, some among you today, together with your predecessors, made the decisions that enable America to have armed services that are the gold standard of the world, and I thank you for that.
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If you play through the first few hours thinking B:I echoes its predecessors too closely, stick with it.
Third, our predecessors were never so consumed with theoretical debates that they couldn't see progress when it came.
The Scot, with considerably smaller finances to work with than his predecessors, has stuck doggedly to his task of shaping a new team out of young talent -- the most notable being 22-year-old Belgium striker Christian Benteke, who struck his 18th goal this season to put the 1982 European champion ahead against Liverpool.
Boisseau says that over the years she never shared a meal or flew on the jet with Keyes or his predecessors.
The first time that I'd heard of such an absurdity was during a conversation with one of our predecessors at the Gardez firebase.
Mr Burstow accused the government of following the example of their Conservative predecessors in failing to provide councils with enough money to provide services.
But Mr Wolf heads into the job with an advantage his predecessors did not have - an apparent commitment by all the parties involved to pursue a lasting peace after years of violence.
But it stands to her credit that when, on her arrival in Brussels in 1995, she was handed responsibility for the fishing industry, she plunged with similar abandon into those dark and deep waters, where a number of her predecessors had virtually drowned and resurfaced still bubbling with enthusiasm, her reputation if anything enhanced.
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Unlike its research-intensive predecessors, the Univac also was built with business applications in mind.
These non-relational databases, with more flexibility than their predecessors, are important for social media and communications services.
He has also been willing to stick with policies adopted by his predecessors when they seemed to make sense.
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They were often portrayed in the local media as being somewhat more in tune with public concerns than their predecessors.
By one count, Ms. Schapiro did no more than her predecessors, who weren't dealing with a collapse of trust in the financial markets.
Some of his cabinet appointments reflect this change of focus: the new finance minister, Fukushiro Nukaga, and the new chief cabinet secretary, Kaoru Yosano, are supporters of fiscal restructuring and have better relations with the bureaucracy than their predecessors.
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We already saw changes for the worse with Dead Space 3 over its predecessors.
If he does, he may end up running the company with a different style than his predecessors.
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