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‘A succession can be hereditary.’

[⟨det succession.n⟩ hereditary.a]

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Dissent over the hereditary succession grew until in 1552, when a group of bishops, from the Northern regions of Amid and Salmas, elected Mar Yohannan Sulaqa as a rival Patriarch.
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It was also one of the few to have a straight hereditary succession in the male line, at least for a few generations.
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Some daimyo, however, effectively managed to secure hereditary succession in their chosen regions. 7 The Shimazu lords of the huge, [sic] domain of Satsuma in southern Japan, for instance, built up enough regional power to exercise effective autonomy 8 (and, eventually, in the nineteenth century to challenge the shoguns) 9.
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In 931 the County was unified by Count Fernn Gonzlez, who made his lands subject to a hereditary succession, independent of the kings of Le n, who previously had the right to create the Counts of Castile. 11th and 12th centuries: Expansion and union to the Kingdom of Le n.
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True, but they are also monarchies, meaning that the heads of state – Kings, Queens, Grand Dukes, or Princes – acquire and retain power not by elections, but by hereditary succession.
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Line of hereditary succession.
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Likewise, their succession was not hereditary, something that would become the custom after them, beginning with the subsequent Umayyad Caliphate.
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This differs from a formally elective monarchy in that it is an extraordinary measure, and with the new monarch the succession again becomes hereditary.
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The “Great Principles’ ’: (1) struggle throughout your life to paint the entire society with the one color of the Great leader Kim Il Sung’s revolutionary thought; (2) Respect and revere highly and with loyalty the Great Leader Kim Il Sung; (3) Make absolute the authority of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung; (4) Accept the Great Leader Kim Il Sung’s revolutionary thought as your belief and take the Great Leader’s instructions as your creed; (5) Observe absolutely the principle of unconditional execution in carrying out the instructions of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung; (6) Rally the unity of ideological intellect and revolutionary solidarity around the Great Leader Kim Il Sung; (7) Learn from the Great Leader Kim Il Sung and master communist dignity, the methods of revolutionary projects, and the people’s work styles; (8) Preserve dearly the political life the Great Leader Kim Il Sung has bestowed upon you, and repay loyally the Great Leader’s boundless political trust and considerations with high political awareness and skill; (9) Establish a strong organizational discipline so that the entire Party, the entirety of the people, and the entire military will operate uniformly under the sole leadership of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung; (10) The great revolutionary accomplishments pioneered by the Great Leader Kim Il Sung must be succeeded and perfected by hereditary succession until the end….
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The preference for males existing in most systems of primogeniture (and in other mechanisms of hereditary succession) comes mostly from the perceived nature of the tasks and role of the monarch: A monarch most usually was, first and foremost, a military protector.
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The line of natural hereditary succession was abolished and a member of the cadet Orleans line of the Bourbon family was chosen: Louis Philippe of France.
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The position was held by hereditary succession by certain Mongol princes, most of whom were descendants of Genghis Khan.
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Like other forms of hereditary succession, ultimogeniture was laden with problems.
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The 1978 constitution codifies the use of Spanish royal titulary, royal prerogatives, hereditary succession to the crown, compensation, and a regency – guardianship contingency in cases of the monarchs minority or incapacitation.
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Upon the death of a chief, the succession was hereditary starting with the eldest son and so on, in case there were no sons available, the closest family member was chosen by the counsel of elders and priests.
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He reintroduced the hereditary succession.
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Queried on 2013-05-24.