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Some online sources attribute this to the 1949 John Wayne film She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (what Wayne actually said in that film was "Never apologise, mister – it's a sign of weakness"), but its antecedents are murky.
Most of Europe's populist parties either have no roots in the far right or have made a conscious and open effort to distance themselves from such antecedents.
Britain's failure to produce many go-getting medium-sized companies, a missing ingredient in the country's disappointing exports performance, is worrying.A politician with solutions to such problems could claim any antecedents he liked.
The rest is history.From the Beatles to a generation of high-flying New York corporate lawyers, Mr Gladwell finds that being in the right place at the right time, having the right antecedents (affluent, caring parents are a big help) and seizing the chance to get in lots of practice (he calls it the 10,000-hour rule) are all as critical to success as raw talent.
The 1,000 pages of notes he wrote on the English greats from Bede to Graham Greene in preparation for the year-long course are the most important source for understanding the literary inspiration of "The Leopard".For all these lofty antecedents , two particular events served to free Lampedusa's imagination and allow him to begin writing his masterpiece.
By 1890 the American office worker wanted both the informality of the lounge suit, with its sporting heritage, and a snappy, modern and efficient look that its military antecedents gave it.Still at the cutting edgeFrom a tight knot of streets between Piccadilly and Regent Street, the suit has conquered the planet.
They confess that when they set out to write about suburbia they shared the stereotypical view, and "imagined it as an anaesthetised state of mind, a no place dominated by a culture of conformity and consumption".These prejudices have impressive antecedents.
On January 11th 27 Tory MPs voted for an amendment to toughen up the government's European Union bill.The new Tory left is, if anything, even further removed from its antecedents in previous decades.
He describes his party as being plain "right", but distances it strenuously from its blackshirt antecedents : "No party these days has ideological ancestors, except perhaps the Refounded Communists".
"One does not need elaborate criteria, cunning measurement, or probing analysis to recognise raw poverty and to understand its antecedents".
That will allow them to work out how galaxies are clustered in space, how those clusters are grouped into superclusters, and how the superclusters themselves are clustered.Cosmologists believe that this nested pattern of clustering was established when the universe was far younger and smaller than it is now—so small that the antecedents of today's superclusters were no larger than a modern atom.
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The word "antecedents " primarily functions as a noun , referring to the preceding events, conditions, or causes that influence or determine a subsequent event or outcome. As Ludwig AI confirms, it's grammatically sound and frequently appears in varied contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
