Again, dynastic succession does not ensure success.

But, despite appearances, few totalitarian regimes, save those of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, have ever maintained a monolithic inner circle of power.

So far, the succession in Pyongyang seems to be proceeding in an orderly fashion.

There is no denying that a distinguished lineage gives political candidates an advantage over rivals.

Since then, South Korean intelligence institutions have been assessing Kim Jong il s ability to organize an orderly dynastic succession.

A new parliament will be convened on June 2 to elect a national government to succeed the outgoing administration of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The Asar Party, founded and led by President Nazarbayev's daughter, was expected to claim second place, assuring her eventual succession.

Family and kinship contracts, which govern marriage, adoption, cohabitation, inheritance, etc., form the basic unit of human society.

The sharp reactions of the Orthodox Patriarchate to the actions of the Holy See reflect an ongoing crisis of leadership and legitimacy within the Russian Orthodox church, where a battle is clearly underway for the succession of Aleksey II.

(b) Guaranteeing the free and equal right of women to own and inherit property and ensuring secure tenure of property and housing by women

Ordinary North Koreans, too, evidently seem to view this succession differently from that of Kim Jong il s inheritance of power from his father, Kim Il sung.

Some believe that North Korea has begun displaying its growing nuclear threat in order to secure the succession to power of Kim Jong un, Kim Jong il s rotund, twenty something youngest son.

In the 1920s and 1930s a modern evolutionary synthesis connected natural selection, mutation theory, and Mendelian inheritance into a unified theory that applied generally to any branch of biology.

1963 1964 Field Research in Sierra Leone and the Gambia recording, restating, customary laws on land, marriage and succession, political institutions of the indigenous societies of the two countries.

After an abortive attempt to placate both Constantine and Maximinus with the meaningless title filius Augusti ( son of the Augustus , essentially an alternative title for Caesar), they both had to be recognised as Augusti in 309.

Implementations Languages that support multiple inheritance include C , Common Lisp (via Common Lisp Object System (CLOS)), EuLisp (via The EuLisp Object System TELOS), Curl, Dylan, Eiffel, Logtalk, Object REXX, Scala (via use of mixin classes), OCaml, Perl, Perl 6, POP 11, Python, and Tcl (built in from 8.6 or via Incremental Tcl (Incr Tcl) in earlier versions).

Kim Jong Il's father similarly ensured a smooth succession a decade ago by appointing family members to positions of power for 40 years, clearing the way by sending the incumbents to concentration camps.