Sentence examples for anticipating by from inspiring English sources

Dante places this near the South Pole, thus anticipating by a good 500 years the modern obsession with the Antarctic.

Eugenio Miozzi, the renowned Venetian bridge engineer, described the treaties hammered out in the seaweed as "anticipating by eight centuries the role of the League of Nations".

By the 8th century ce collectors had become concerned enough about provenance to add seals to sheets of calligraphy and scroll paintings, anticipating by about 900 years the collector's marks found on the works of Western Old Masters.

One of the first women to become a prominent folklorist, Mrs. Rubin was also among the first American scholars to document the culture of Eastern European Jews, anticipating by decades the Yiddish revival of the 1970's.

The proposed stepped structure of metal and glass would have been 1,000 feet high, anticipating by three decades the earliest U.S. plans for skyscrapers — a detail overlooked by American architectural historians debating just who should be credited for the earliest high rise.

Anticipating by four decades today's fondness for blurring the lines between documentary and drama — from the puzzle pieces of Abbas Kiarostami to the dodgy theatrics of "Catfish" — "A Man Vanishes" is startlingly modern and, at 130 minutes, in some measure more fun to talk about than to watch.

Highly anticipated by the fashion crowd.

Part of that change could have been anticipated by outsiders.

The G20 summit was eagerly anticipated by the press.

That is above the $4.86 anticipated by analysts.

They had been anticipated by Robert Mayer in 1842.