Sentence examples for be a forerunner for from inspiring English sources

The latest criticism of the Parades Commission may be a forerunner for another push for a replacement structure in the autumn.

By her temperament, Proserpina anticipates Poppea in the later opera; likewise Pachino may be a forerunner for Ottone; some of the discourses in Proserpina have the rhetorical flavour of those between Nerone and Seneca in L'incoronazione.

In fact, it wouldn't be surprising if this paper was a forerunner for practical work being done to develop prototypes.

The commercials are a forerunner for what Ms. Hirschhorn and Ms. Maroun describe as a major new campaign for Met Life, to come later in the year.

Brooks is a forerunner for a new generation of novelists for whom status updates and midget porn will be as unremarkable features of life as pavements and trees.

The announcement confirms what military officials have been saying for weeks: that the Marja offensive, in which intermittent fighting continued even as the Afghan government symbolically claimed control of the city on Thursday by hoisting the Afghan flag, was a forerunner for a much bigger battle ahead.

Rahlves, who won the downhill in 2003 and the super G in 2004 and is one of two American champions in the history of the Hahnenkamm race, which dates back to the 1930s, was a forerunner for the training run Thursday.

During my Christmas holiday in 1984, I worked at the Science Museum on a test gallery, called Test Bed, that was a forerunner for Launch Pad, which opened in 1986.

Though an independent mission, DTUsat is a forerunner for the ICARUS (International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space) project, an ambitious plan to equip birds and other small mammals with tags that transmit their location directly to the International Space Station, rather than via a satellite relay.

In its way, the Ascii standard was a forerunner of the standards for exchanging and reading data that enable communication across the Internet and World Wide Web.

For Schoenberg, Brahms was a forerunner of modernism, whose commitment to structure provided a way forward from the dead-end to which Wagner's unfettered chromaticism was bound to lead.