When your distant predecessor, man, was ruler of this planet, he had a way with the overcrowded bed in his garden.

Although sharing a U.S. Navy designation with its distant predecessor, the straight-winged FJ-1 Fury, the FJ-2/-3 were wholly different aircraft.

Names of immediate or distant predecessors, mentors, saints, or even family members-as was the case with John XXIII-have been adopted.

Behind them is a tank-a primitive, nonintelligent armored fighting vehicle which could, in fact, be considered to be a distant and primitive predecessor of the Bolo.

The Provincial Council was the upper house of the colonial legislature, and as such was a distant predecessor to the modern New Jersey Senate.

This royal village housed a private zoo, a distant predecessor of current Moscow Zoo.

It is also considered a distant predecessor of the Polish Information Agency.

He'd found most of his distant predecessor's outfit in the Wizard's Keep.

IT seems unlikely that Bill Clinton will leave the presidency in January to a reception anything like that given to his most distant predecessor, George Washington.

It is made clear in the catalogue of his current show at the Pace Gallery that the new paintings are plotted almost as carefully as their distant predecessors.