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Example sentences for: heir

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His heir, Humayun, preferred opium and astrology to complex State affairs; he was driven out of India into Persia by General Sher Shah, who proved to be a much more able ruler.
Blair has repeatedly insisted that genetically modified foods are safe, but the heir to the throne attacked the lack of independent scientific research and said the regulations were not tough enough.
The task was left to Bindusara’s heir Ashoka (269–232 b.c. ), admired by Indians as their greatest ruler, perhaps for his special combination of tough authoritarianism and a high sense of moral righteousness.
When Robert the Bruce died in 1329, his son and heir, David II, was only five years old.
The second book is his attempt to portray himself as a spiritual heir to the Jewish gangsters.