1.   Yet essentially Whigs agreed that the hereditary succession had been broken by the Glorious Revolution and that henceforth the monarch had a Parliamentary title to the throne.

2.   Such arguments enabled Tories to continue to pose as defenders of hereditary succession.

3.   He represents the first hereditary succession of power in a communist state.

4.   Kim represents the first hereditary succession of power in a communist state.

5.   The father-to-son power shift would mark the first hereditary succession in a communist country.

6.   Theirs is the first hereditary succession of power in a communist state.

7.   His long absence fed speculation here and abroad that he might have fallen ill or might have met resistance to the hereditary succession.