Mr. Pearson was thought a suitable successor.

皮尔逊先生被认为是个合适的接任者。

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The modernity complex of Marx's thought shows concretely as follows: as a successor, Marx carried on the valuable ideals and fundamental spirits of modernity;

马克思思想的现代性情结表观在：作为继承者，秉承了现代性的价值理想和根本精神；

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So after the villagers thought for a long time, they decided that they would take their troubles to the holy man's successor.

村民们在经过一阵讨论后，决定把他们的问题丢给圣人的继承人处理。

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He was once thought to be a potential successor to Mr. Paterno in the 1990s, but according to the grand-jury report in the Sandusky case, Mr. Paterno told Mr. Sandusky in a May 1999 meeting that he wouldn't be the next head coach at Penn State.

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And his 2004 assertion, that "the tectonic plates appear to be moving" within the government, seemed to suggest he thought Tony Blair should have made way for his successor sooner rather than later.

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The thought leadership process as core to SEO, incorporating strategizing, productizing and monetizing, is the natural successor to the more traditional SEO of today.

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