He has resigned from the role before his permanent successor has been hired.

She's coming back, but not to her current role, as a permanent successor has been appointed.

Recruitment of a permanent successor would begin 'shortly'.

And all because the chosen permanent successor 'cannot take up the post immediately'.

The company said that the search for a permanent successor continued.

She rapidly formed a close relationship with her boss and was marked out as a potential successor.

He had been touted for months as a potential successor.

He has never moved, rarely been tempted, but the age and upkeep of the rented yards may be a deterrent to any potential successor.

Well, my departure was all agreed, then there was a huge problem about my potential successor.

This season has revealed a potential successor, a horse that can win in swaggering style over any trip from two miles to three.

The concept of a spiritual successor extends beyond fictional works.

As a spiritual successor to the film, cutscenes in the game are presented with live action video clips with actors cosplaying the characters.

This structure was enforced by the teaching of apostolic succession, where a bishop becomes the spiritual successor of the previous bishop in a line tracing back to the apostles themselves.

The pirate radio pioneers of the 1960s broadcast from out at sea but their spiritual successors are keeping the flame alive from school dormitories.

These bishops considered themselves the spiritual successors of those apostles.

He resolves to find a worthy successor druid to whom he can pass on the secret of the magic potion.

However, the real question was always going to be whether the platforming was a worthy successor to the original titles - and it doesn't disappoint.

Perplexing, grim but ceaselessly vigilant and funny, it was a worthy successor.

This strong-galloper promises to relish this much sterner test of stamina and can prove a worthy successor to his illustrious stablemate.

Is this special-edition 208 a worthy successor?

Then he lost, and along came his would-be successors assuring them that everything the party had been saying for half a decade was plain wrong.

She has repeatedly resisted giving further substance to that concession, however, to the growing disappointment of her opponents and would-be successors.

For some of her would-be successors, it must have sounded all too appropriate.

Her would-be successors could not be seen to undermine her too brazenly or promise a clean break with her strategy, and the discussion was consensual.