Sentence examples similar to a forerunner of events from inspiring English sources

At this first large-scale gathering of African Americans on the National Mall, an event that was a forerunner of the 1963 March on Washington at which Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famed "I Have a Dream" speech, protestors called on federal authorities to enforce desegregation, support voting rights, and combat racial violence.

First shown in 2003, Mr. Bong's police procedural, whose action begins in 1986, plays like a forerunner of David Fincher's "Zodiac" (2007), which was also based on real events and similarly tracks a confounding investigation that continues for years.

It evokes not only scenes we may vaguely remember from childhood but the pentimenti behind everyday events, like the buying of the first, 5-cent ticket for the Interborough Rapid Transit in 1904 — a forerunner of the MetroCard.

It was a forerunner of much of his political verse.

NKVD, Soviet secret police agency, a forerunner of the KGB.

Later she founded the League of Free Nations, a forerunner of the Foreign Policy Association.

Pool was a forerunner of the game snooker.

Pyramids was a forerunner of the game snooker.

The pagan festival of Samhain is a forerunner of Halloween.

Epping became a forerunner of the national parks idea.

"That was a forerunner of what became the violent universe.