Joe excels his older brother at swimming.

Why should Obama, a constitutional scholar, be backtracking this way?

Last year, with the stroke of his pen, Obama ended his predecessor s global war on terror.

Withdrawal of the nationality of the predecessor State

Perhaps the wrong Cromwell would be sacrificed for the actions of his ancestor Thomas in the previous century.

He is above the ordinary type of student.

Zenit is at the top of the table.

He disliked his predecessor, Mikhail Gorbachev, as much his predecessors disliked their predecessors.

MANILA Unlike his predecessor, US President Barack Obama is popular from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

He risks the fate of his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, who presided during a period of unusually low oil prices.

Bakiyev came to power on the back of the street protests that felled Akayev, but repeated all his predecessor's mistakes.

Japan surpasses China in economic power.

The resounding answer is that Bush is to blame. Every president inherits a legacy.

Most immediately, Calderón had to address his immediate predecessor s failure to implement any of the major reforms that Mexico needed.

Like Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov came to power following the death of a more charismatic predecessor.

Much to his credit and in contrast to his immediate predecessor Obama tried, from his first day in office, to work towards a resolution of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

His strength is much greater than that of an ordinary man.

Rouhani has been largely successful in putting his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s tone deaf leadership firmly in the past.

Ultimately, divine authority trumps political authority.

Today, China's urban population outnumbers its rural population.

The dipole moment of Uranus is 50 times that of Earth.

(b) Are not covered by subparagraph (a) and have an appropriate legal connection with a constituent unit of the predecessor State that has remained part of the predecessor State

The legacies of Deng and his predecessor, Mao Zedong, are very different.

Consider Yasuhiro Nakasone, Koizumi s predecessor in the 1980 s.

Attribution of the nationality of the successor State and withdrawal of the nationality of the predecessor State

They also view Russia in terms of a tradition whereby every new tsar partly repudiates the legacy of his predecessor, creating a political thaw at the beginning of a new reign.

Like its two predecessors, the film does not have an original score.

He demanded restitution from the ministers who had abused the confidence of his predecessor.

This is bound to outstrip the ability of many societies and ecosystems to adapt.

China s current international influence likely outstrips its desire or capacity.

Ganymede, the largest satellite in the Solar System, is larger than Mercury.

The field irrigation of the Zaraysk Province had been started by the predecessor of Karenin's predecessor.

Every year since 2002, California Governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger have proclaimed February 6 Ronald Reagan Day in the state of California in honor of their most famous predecessor.

The global benefits of supporting them far outweigh the costs.

The number of English words exceeds twenty times Shakespeare's prodigious vocabulary.

Optimists cheer the departure of the Bush administration and assume that the arrival of the Obama presidency, which unlike its predecessor is not in denial about the science of global warming, will unlock the prospect of a deal.

The problem for Ban is his diffident manner, which stands in stark contrast with that of his predecessor, Kofi Annan, a larger than life secretary general who dominated the scene through his flair, eloquence, and star power.

(d) State concerned means the predecessor State or the successor State, as the case may be

Greece s fire breathing new government, it is generally assumed, will have little choice but to stick to its predecessor s program of structural reform, perhaps in return for a modest relaxation of fiscal austerity.

Labor s current leader, Shelly Yachimovich, superseded the fatalism of her predecessor, Ehud Barak, who maintained that the Palestinian conflict has no solution, with the politics of denial she refused even to acknowledge that there is a problem.

President Lech Kaczynski s approval ratings, are dramatically lower than those of his predecessor, the SLD s Aleksander Kwasniewski.

One year in the life of a microbe, indeed, easily surpasses the ages it took for all mammals to evolve!

My visit to the dentist last week, for example, was far superior to my childhood visits.

President Bush's view on taxation is strikingly different from his predecessor's.

I refer to my predecessor's letter of 20 April 2004 (S 2004 323) and its annex, transmitting the fourth report from Argentina submitted to the Counter Terrorism Committee pursuant to paragraph 6 of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001).