Yet Stalin threw it out for the rigidly centralized economy that his successors have struggled with for 30 years.

Later Umayyads killed Jaisiah and recaptured the territory before his successors once again struggled to hold and keep it.

His successors struggled to contain the Arab tide.

The cult seemed only to gain strength with the passing years, as his successors denounced one another and struggled to portray themselves as the one true interpreter of Lenin.

His successor, Ieuan Wyn Jones, struggled to impose his authority, particularly over controversial remarks made by a senior councillor, Seimon Glyn.

Radbod died in 719, but for some years his successors struggled against the Frankish power.

Angell and his successors struggled to raise the necessary funds.

Following Oppenheimer's death in 1985, his successors have struggled to keep his vision alive while coping with sometimes rancorous internal disagreements about future directions.

Most returning executives remained on the boards of the companies as their successors struggled.

He looked down and there were none who grasped upward at him, no ambitious successors to struggle with.