Sentence examples for Most immediate predecessor from inspiring English sources

Net art's most immediate predecessor was the Fluxus performance-art happenings of the nineteen-sixties, but its roots go back to the Dadaism of the early twentieth century.

The book analyzes this process beginning with tabulating technology, the most immediate predecessor of the computer, and continuing through the 1970s with early computers.

As you would expect, there's a new (but sort of old) processor in the mix as well — Apple's A5 chipset replaces the aging A4 seen in its most immediate predecessor, and it brings it with some nifty features that hadn't yet made their way to the Wi-Fi-only Wi-Fi-only Wi-Fi-only

As a T-Mobile spokesperson, her most immediate predecessor was Catherine Zeta-Jones.

From her most immediate predecessors, Baras and Yerbabenua, back to early-20th-century dance pioneers Carmen Amaya and La Argentinita, flamenco has been driven by extraordinary women.

And he has adjusted the department's legal stances on issues involving voting rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals in ways that put him at odds with his most immediate predecessors.

And unlike all but his most immediate predecessors, the Web allows his calls for humility and equality to be broadcast directly to people around the world, rather than filtered through political and religious establishments.

For it's an agenda which his two most immediate predecessors, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gray Davis, in large measure promoted themselves, providing a sense of future-oriented continuity amidst all the fiscal distress and hyper-partisan tumult which marked the last decade-plus here.

Eric Harvey of Pitchfork Media compared the release strategy of The Slip favorably to that of Ghosts I IV and Year Zero, writing that "[u]nlike its most immediate predecessors, The Slip comes packaged with a crucial difference: the music itself is more satisfying than the sui generis marketing scheme".

Apart from Bryce Dessner's annual MusicNOW Festival in Cincinnati, the Ecstatic Music Festival, established in 2011 by the above mentioned Judd Greenstein, is Crossing Brooklyn Ferry's most immediate and relevant predecessor.

Their close partnership is a departure from the relations between others who have held their posts, most notably their immediate predecessors Janet Reno and Louis J. Freeh.