Sentence examples for early predecessors from inspiring English sources

There is something pleasing in imagining these early predecessors leering spectrally over Mr. Cameron's shoulder, like the owls in a Goya engraving.

Benoit's team argue that this loss could have been due to a mutation in the Msx2 gene in one of these early predecessors, causing this reptilian feature to disappear.

I shudder and yet marvel at the accuracy and devastation of the smart bombs we see today, but their early predecessors were V2 rockets, developed by the Germans to strike targets from afar with minimum engagement on their part.

Mr. Volpe was not an obvious candidate for the job of general manager, given the aristocratic tradition established by Sir Rudolph Bing, one of his early predecessors; in fact, the Met board initially rejected the idea of appointing him and instead chose Hugh Southern, who lasted seven months.

Among the Bankverein's early backers was the Bank in Winterthur, one of the early predecessors of the Union Bank of Switzerland.

In Winnebago County, in early July 1841, the offices of the Rock River Express were ransacked, an early predecessor to the Rockford Register Star, the daily newspaper of Rockford, Illinois.

As ethnic tensions boiled over in New York City in the early 1900s, a young detective was tasked with battling the Black Hand, an early predecessor to La Cosa Nostra, or what most of us know as the Mafia.

The system, called pulse navigation, is an early predecessor of global positioning system technology.

Soon known as "Whatizzit Wagons," or Whatsits, these mobile darkrooms were an early predecessor of the news-gathering vehicle.

Albarn scores this moment with a single burbling line played on the ondes Martenot, an early predecessor of the synthesizer.

One of the most serious offenders was the Rhode Island businessman John Brown, who founded Providence Bank, an early predecessor of the modern FleetBoston Financial Corporation.