1.   In January Aquino acknowledged her debt to Ramos by endorsing him as her chosen successor for the presidency.

2.   And is Manley now the chosen successor?

3.   But he predicted that his chosen successor, Lt. Gov. Eunice S. Groark, would win in November.

4.   But the aging President now puts the more positive elements of that legacy at risk by refusing to prepare the way for a democratically chosen successor.

5.   By leaving early and calling early presidential elections for December, Yeltsin would attempt to improve the chances for Putin, his chosen successor.

6.   He said he had repeatedly told the board that Mack was his chosen successor.

7.   His chosen successor, Assembly member Joseph Crowley, has had an equally undistinguished career notable mainly for party loyalty.

8.   His retirement got cut short when his chosen successor, Jeffrey Skilling, gave back the keys unexpectedly in August after just six months.

9.   Lukwiya was his chosen successor.

10.   Rabbi Naftali Halberstam, the eldest and the chosen successor in the Bobov sect, escaped the Nazis with his father and came to New York after the war.