Sentence examples for Antecedent from inspiring English sources

The most obvious antecedent is Proust, whom Knausgaard has said he "virtually imbibed" when A la recherche du temps perdu was finally translated into Norwegian in the 1980s.

Their opponents say that the FARC cynically used the peace talks and sacrificed the UP as a means of buying time to build up their guerrilla army part of their strategy of "combining all forms of struggle".The antecedent of the UP hangs over the promising new peace talks that the FARC and Colombia's government have been conducting in Havana since November.

The opportunities for the poor are restricted not only by antecedent poverty but also by two types of structural faults.

Safety considerations will be taken care of by having chains of approved dealers who meet manufacturers' technical standards for repair and maintenance work.The final paradox concerns Britain's booming industry, now turning out 2m cars a year, back up to the output levels of the 1970s, before the unions started demolishing Rover's antecedent, British Leyland.

Maruti Suzuki's antecedent firm was founded in 1968 by Sanjay Gandhi, a playboy scion of India's ruling dynasty, whose qualifications included repeatedly being arrested for speeding in his Jaguar while on the rampage in England and a mum who was prime minister.

In particular it could be a model for Ecuador, which recently agreed to allow oil exploration in the Yasuní national park.The NGOs cite a dark antecedent: when Shell began exploring Camisea in the 1980s, it built an access road.

The antecedent to the pronoun is someone, and the pronoun is, of course, they.

Conditionals are non-simple assertibles formed with the connective 'if …, …'; they consist of antecedent and consequent (D. L. 7.71 2).

Similarly for (P.4d), which may be further weakened or strengthened by tampering with the parthood predicates occurring in the antecedent and in the consequent.

The incompatibilist maintains that if our willings and choices are themselves determined by antecedent causes then we could never choose otherwise than we do.

Similarly, the existence of persons whose antecedent attitudinal framework or whose bias within their structuring of their perceptions limits their ability to observe the empirical evidence that is relevant for resolving an issue does not negate the objectivity of the factual evidence or the legitimacy of the acceptance of the hypotheses that represent the optimal interpretation of the data.