1.   Anna Deavere Smith inherited the mantle and wore it, all by herself onstage, in a startling new fashion.

2.   As such, Duncanson also inherited the mantle of Thomas Cole, Frederic Church and other American innovators.

3.   But Samp, a conservative public interest lawyer, says he has inherited the mantle that his critics should be wearing.

4.   His star at CBS was on the rise, and many network executives thought he would inherit the mantle of Ed Murrow.

5.   In some respects, Tung is inheriting the mantle of colonial rule to be left by the British governor.

6.   Mushkat of Indocam said China had inherited the mantle of economic leadership from a troubled Japan.

7.   The Congress Party, led by Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow who inherited the mantle of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, was trailing badly.

8.   They are the sons of Arab leaders who, like Bashar Assad, are moving to inherit the mantle of power from their fathers.

9.   Vaughn, who inherits the mantle of franchise player from Clemens, says the Red Sox management must foster more goodwill with its players.

10.   We will never know what the great American baritone Leonard Warren, whose mantle Milnes inherited, would have sounded like at that age.