hereditary succession

collocation in English

meaningsofhereditaryandsuccession

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hereditary
adjective
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/hɪˈred.ɪ.tər.i/us
/həˈred.ə.ter.i/
(of characteristics or diseases) passing from a parent to a child through the ...
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succession
noun
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/səkˈseʃ.ən/us
/səkˈseʃ.ən/
a number of similar events or people that happen, exist, etc. after ...
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He was also anxious to justify 1688 in ways that did not abandon the central principles ofhereditarysuccessionand submission to legitimate authority.
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Furthermore, all these states are ruled by traditional families withhereditarysuccessionand authoritarian systems of governance.
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The lowest score is assigned to polities in which chief executives are determined byhereditarysuccession, designation or by a combination of both.
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These bureaucrats have created a 'socialistic' education system within which 'it is only natural for the social system to lean toward nepotism andhereditarysuccessionrather than ability' (p. 104).
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Is it really the case thathereditarysuccessionalone can ensure integrity and independence?
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There have been duties and functions associated with title and withhereditarysuccession.
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There are also other sorts of order of succession thanhereditarysuccession(such as line of non-hereditarysuccessionto democratic state offices).
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His election was notable in that it marked a departure from the concept ofhereditarysuccession.
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This kind ofhereditarysuccessionwas one of the problems with the new government.
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The principle ofhereditarysuccessionis not extinct but long ago destiny abolished this custom.
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It was also one of the few to have a straighthereditarysuccessionin the male line, at least for a few generations.
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Finally, provisions were established forhereditarysuccessionto the post of prime minister.
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These were urban centres where there was little respect for the principle ofhereditarysuccessionto the patriarchate.
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It was also one of the few to have a straighthereditarysuccessionin male line, at least for some generations.
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Its major concerns include the ritual code, political and familial hierarchies, andhereditarysuccession.
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Main concepts forhereditarysuccessionare usually either "heir male" or "heir general" - see further primogeniture (agnatic, cognatic, and also equal).
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Sulaqa was thereupon elected by a party in the church which disapproved of the principle ofhereditarysuccession.
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At this periodhereditarysuccession(normally from uncle to nephew as the patriarchs themselves remained celibate) was in force in both patriarchates.
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Ashereditarysuccessionbecame the custom, it became accepted as law and the kings lost control over the counts.
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The lack, however, of a legal basis for inheritance led to various experiments inhereditarysuccession.
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