Her only complaint was that we did not drink enough, and certainly not as much as our predecessors from the 1950s and 1960s she had outlasted.
It's a frightening prospect, as there is no treatment, which leaves us as vulnerable as our predecessors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when TB (or consumption, as it was then popularly known) was a major killer.
Because after all, we were just going for the same makeshift fit as our predecessors, only this time around it would require finding a way to cut a steel plate, then fitting it around the new insert, whose dimensions would in no way conform to the existing brick surround and fire box.
Just as our predecessors did 40 years ago, we will push on all fronts to build a better, even more ambitious and creative New York Times.
So I exclaimed to my friend, 'But this is 1950!' As our predecessors went to Berlin, so we would go to Kiev.
We are going to have to shift from consuming to investing in and dare I say sacrificing for future generations as our predecessors did for us.
But, reading Wieseltier's declaration that "As our predecessors went to Berlin, so we would go to Kiev," I can't help wondering if Marx forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce, the third time as "born too late," after all.
The American population today is as bright as ever, and we have the same desire as our predecessors to undertake a life of purpose; it takes only a moment's reflection to see that a welfare check hardly fits the bill.
One big comment I saw on my post was "u can't play both sides" but it's that same mentality that keeps us stagnant, sitting in the same mind frame as our predecessors who dealt with things that are & can come to an end if we could Really see each other as equals, & not just claim we do.
However, there is a risk of imposing western ideology and perceiving women in contemporary cultures as our predecessors in a universal movement towards gender equality [ 42].
Today, however, it is widely recognized that looking at our predecessors as junior league versions of ourselves may be profoundly misleading as a guide to understanding the kinds of creatures they were: another example, if on a very small scale, of paradigm change.
