Sentence examples for earliest predecessors from inspiring English sources

Despite the advanced design and engineering of the elaborate, moving displays, the floats are in some respects nearly as primitive as their very earliest predecessors.

The levees of the nineteen-twenties were about six times as high as their earliest predecessors, but really no more effective.

In contrasting the prosperity of the nation under his earliest predecessors with the decadence into which it had fallen at the time of his own accession, Telipinus provides a useful though not always reliable summary of early Hittite history: Formerly Labarnas was Great King; and then his sons, his brothers, his connections by marriage, his blood-relations and his soldiers were united.

But one decision we have to make sets us markedly apart from our earliest predecessors.

Its earliest predecessors were built in Ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC.

Anglo-Celtic tunes, dance music, and balladry were the earliest predecessors of modern country, then known as hillbilly music.

The Boston and Maine's earliest predecessor was the Andover and Wilmington Railroad, which was chartered in 1833.

·1964 7 Up Michael Apted's long-running documentary series is identified by many as the earliest predecessor of reality television.Starting with 14 British seven-year-olds, he has filmed them every seven years since.

Naturally, I drove east to the small town of Belknap in search of the Belknap Bridge; but when I finally stopped for directions, I found it was in the town of McKenzie Bridge, named for the current version's earliest predecessor, built in 1890.

The earliest predecessor to the commercial Internet of today was ARPANET, a packet switched computer network developed by the US Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Yet this arm's-length shot could be the earliest predecessor of "the selfie that broke Twitter".