Sentence examples for acting as a forerunner from inspiring English sources

Gighit.com originally launched in 2005, acting as a forerunner to successful sites like iLike and Last FM.

Acquia is just acting as a partner.

Agnes began acting as a teenager.

Gyllenhaal, 33, started acting as a child.

Oil is acting as an alternative currency.

But the origins of darts tell of a more noble lineage and it is thought to have its roots in a game played by soldiers in the Middle Ages, who threw shortened spears at a slice of a felled tree, the age circles of the tree acting as the crude forerunner to today's dartboard.

Since the French Revolution to modern-day China, the private sector acted as a forerunner, facilitating democratization and socio-political advancement.

But with women making demonstration jumps and acting as forerunners in men's competitions, the sport was granted its own world championships in 2009 and World Cup in 2011.

(Like a kid acting as one).

And acting as dismount.

He is sometimes cited as a forerunner of the renowned philosopher Benedict de Spinoza.