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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So-called "alternative comedians" on TV and in clubs took a sharp left turn away from the routines of their more reactionary predecessors, with many of the newcomers poking fun at the po-faced prime minister.
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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.
Should this happen, President Bush may find himself in that unhappy position well known to several of his predecessors with a signed, but egregiously deficient and unratifiable treaty.
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.
Rather as today's organisers are fending off references to the splendour of Beijing, their predecessors faced comparisons with the ugly ostentation of Berlin in 1936 and the glamour of Los Angeles in 1932.
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As with his predecessors, North Korean state media has portrayed Kim Jong-un as a young man with extraordinary capabilities.
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.
Mr. Stewart also demonstrates this challenge of achieving a greener energy future in a parody on his Daily Show program depicting President Obama, along with his seven predecessors, promising a future absent of our reliance on oil.
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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.
His predecessors also reportedly died in clashes with security forces.
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.
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