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Which is without question why the prime minister was very keen in our interview to erect the highest bar he could to any wannabe successors triggering a leadership contest.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

Offa’s successors appear to have lacked his fortitude.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

"However, it also appears that his predecessors and successors also engaged in the practice," Cooper said last year.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

No wonder Warren Buffett wrote in a 2007 letter to shareholders that a “farsighted capitalist” at Kitty Hawk would have done successors a favor by “shooting Orville down.”

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

It got stronger as time went on, thanks to the investigations of Copernicus’s successors.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife