That would further reassure both states that no successor government could easily reverse this wise step.

Yet this successor government will almost certainly be a brief one.

Nevertheless, no successor government has shown inclination to abandon the sharia.

He was believed as simply a transitional figure until a more stable successor government to Deng could be put in place.

But the white leadership was no doubt motivated as well by reluctance to let its nukes fall into the hands of a successor black government.

Deficits can also narrow the options of successor governments.

This plan, favored by the State Department, also calls for setting up a successor government, mainly from the people now in the country.

The successor government soon overturned many of Tombalbaye's more odious policies.