1.   As expected, United States Olympic Committee president Sandra Baldwin has been nominated to replace predecessor Bill Hybl on the IOC.

2.   Just when it appears that a new medium is going to replace its predecessor, we tend to figure out the true value of the older.

3.   Most coaches and managers who have replaced legendary predecessors have produced winning records.

4.   Pedro Ferreras Diez, the new president of the state asset holding company Teneo, was named to replace his predecessor, Javier Salas.

5.   The story is told in blocs that jump forward in time, with a new actor replacing his predecessor at the beginning of each new chapter.

6.   We had saved many long years to replace its predecessor, which was a long yellow shag so old that tufts of it actually came up when you vacuumed.

7.   Signed as a free agent in December after Mussina left the Orioles to join the New York Yankees, Hentgen replaces his predecessor as ace of the staff.

8.   Such an invitation would have been unthinkable until her recent appointment to replace predecessor Kevin McNamara, seen as too pro-republican on Northern Ireland.