Sentence examples for beyond his predecessors from inspiring English sources

But Violier went beyond his predecessors.

While he carried on a long tradition of attempted synthesis between religious law and Greek philosophy, he went beyond his predecessors in spite of large-scale dependence upon them.

In "An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" (1751), Thomas Gray revisited the terrain of such recent poems as Thomas Parnell's Night-Piece on Death (1722) and Robert Blair's The Grave (1743) and discovered a tensely humane eloquence far beyond his predecessors' powers.

Wales had talked themselves up as favourites, reflecting the desire of their coach, Warren Gatland, to load his players with expectation as he looked to take them to the kind of results that had been beyond his predecessors in the last 30 years.

Cantor has advanced beyond his predecessors in formulating what is in essence a topological definition of continuum, one that, while still dependent on metric notions, does not involve an order relation[37].

In his second year Thutmose led a riverborne expedition deep into Nubia, beyond his predecessor's frontier.

President Obama was right to move beyond his predecessor's "democracy" agenda built around military intervention and empty rhetoric.

He has, for example, vowed to go well beyond his predecessor in establishing state support for stem-cell research, and deliberately talked about strengthening the anti-corruption capacities of the attorney general's office.

But Trump administration has gone far beyond his predecessor, separating almost 2,000 immigrant children from their parents in the spring.

Then, in 2007, the Socialist prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, went far beyond what his predecessors were willing to risk in the 80s and 90s.

In this policy of giving church offices to his relatives, Innocent went far beyond what his predecessors had done and established a pattern of nepotism that came to be recognized as a normal papal prerogative as time went on.