(n.) One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.
(n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.
(v. t.) To inherit; to succeed to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Antoine Comte, a lawyer for the Schloss heirs, said all the family wanted was the return of the painting.
(2) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
(3) They are most commonly described as conduct disordered and hyperactive, appear heir to a variety of deficits in verbal and abstract cognition, and perform more poorly in the academic environment.
(4) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(5) Museveni, who has held power for nearly three decades, has never said he sees his son as his political heir.
(6) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(7) Her parents, Apiruj and Wanthanee Suwadee, were found guilty of violating Article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code which says anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with up to 15 years in prison.
(8) The anointed heir, Xi Jinping , commanded less attention than former general secretary Jiang Zemin, seated next to current leader Hu Jintao.
(9) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
(10) Welsh, but London-based, Jones's real offence to leftwingers - heirs to Nye Bevan - was to be a Blairite, "parachuted" into Blaenau Gwent.
(11) Revelations about Charles' power of consent come amid continued concern that the heir to the throne may be overstepping his constitutional role by lobbying ministers directly and through his charities on pet concerns such as traditional architecture and the environment.
(12) In the past, they were mostly wealthy British citizens seeking to hold their money outside the UK to avoid income tax and capital gains tax on their earnings, and to pass their wealth to heirs without inheritance tax.
(13) The spectacular ascent that saw him grace the cover of Newsweek as Asian of the Year and become the heir apparent of then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was met with an equally spectacular crash in 1998, when the two fell out and Anwar was imprisoned for six years on corruption and sodomy charges, claims he repeatedly dismissed as politically motivated.
(14) The American heirs of a German-Jewish family have launched an unprecedented partnership with German state institutions to try to recover a vast art collection stolen by the Nazis.
(15) For seven years, the government has been fighting to prevent the disclosure of the letters – dubbed "black spider memos" because of the heir's handwriting.
(16) Tim Loughton, a Sussex MP, said it would be a "nonsense" to stop the heir to the throne talking to ministers as he had always come across as "well briefed and knowledgeable" in their meetings.
(17) But both Kennedy and Marks are now dead and Mossa said they had been unable to establish an obvious heir.
(18) Carter and the former leaders of Finland, Norway and Ireland were hoping for talks with Kim Jong-il and his son and heir apparent, Kim Jong-un.
(19) The gene termed heir-1 was localized to the neuroblastoma consensus deletion at 1p36.2-p36.12.
(20) Since Evans’ original request to see Charles’s letters, the government tightened up the Freedom of Information Act to provide an “absolute exemption” on all requests relating to the Queen and the heir to the throne.
Keir
Definition:
(n.) See Kier.
Example Sentences:
(1) So the newspapers will be delighted with director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer's announcement that the Lib Dem cabinet minister has been charged over the allegation – apparently made in a moment of anger by his former wife, the economist Vicky Pryce – that he had asked someone to take his speeding points on his behalf when the then-MEP allegedly drove home too fast from Stansted airport in 2003.
(2) The submission recorded that this claim had been "strongly contradicted" by the head of the CPS, Keir Starmer QC.
(3) In a wide-ranging speech on Monday, Labour’s Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer will warn that the Brexit process is in danger of being hijacked by Tory hardliners who sense a “once in a generation chance” for Britain to extricate itself from employment rights, environmental protections and investment in public services.
(4) The statements were taken during Operation Iden, one of the two investigations that came to a close this week with Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, ruling that it had gathered insufficient evidence to press charges.
(5) The role of the CPS in this area is untested, and Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, told the Leveson inquiry in February that he intended to issue guidance to clarify the issue.
(6) Keir Starmer, former director of public prosecutions who now advises Labour on justice policy, added to calls for Wright to go.
(7) He has also beefed up the party’s response to the referendum result by appointing former director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer as shadow Brexit secretary.
(8) In chronological order the four shortlisted contenders are: Keir Hardie, Labour's first MP (1892), the nearest thing it has to a founder; Clement Attlee, presiding mastermind of the postwar welfare state; Aneurin Bevan, charismatic architect of Labour's best-loved, most enduring institution, the NHS; and Barbara Castle, the woman prime minister Labour never had.
(9) In the latter scenario, we’d have the sensible, careful Keir Starmer managing Brexit while the government implemented a whole series of policies that actually benefited ordinary people: infrastructure investment; a humane welfare system and adequate funding for schools, social care and the NHS; a crackdown on slum landlords; better regulation of rental properties; a million new homes built over the next five years; tax cuts for small businesses that enable them to compete against unfairly advantaged offshore firms; renationalisation of our railways , so UK commuters aren’t forced to fork out five times the amount paid for equivalent journeys in mainland Europe.
(10) You would not find Keir customarily in wing collar and stripy trousers."
(11) The former director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, led a widespread public consultation which in 2010 determined that people could still be prosecuted for helping another die, but that six mitigating factors would count against such action .
(12) That is why it is essential that a successor is appointed who is committed to building on Keir's approach and values."
(13) Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, said at the weekend that prosecutors would come to a decision on whether any officers or members of the public should be charged "as soon as we can".
(14) Keir Starmer, the DPP, made clear that he would, in the first instance, set out in detail the factors taken into account in favour of, or against, prosecution.
(15) The files were considered by the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, who had to decide whether there was a realistic chance of securing a conviction and what charges he should bring.
(16) Just as well, perhaps, they did not realise that Starmer was named by his solidly Labour-supporting parents in the heart of commuter-belt Surrey after that founding socialist hero Keir Hardie.
(17) Keir Starmer , the former director of public prosecutions, said the report was a significant milestone for the campaign to end FGM.
(18) But we live in interesting times when a Conservative prime minister pilots gay marriage through parliament and the birthplace of the founder of the Labour party, Keir Hardie , is in such turmoil.
(19) Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, would privately confide to friends that the decision over whether to prosecute Harwood would keep him awake at night as he tried to reconcile those contradicting medical opinions.
(20) Keir Starmer, the shadow brexit minister, said: “Guy Verhofstadt asks, ‘what is the purpose of this general election’?