"It's a really nice example of pre-adaptability," Dr. Rybczynski said.
He already owned five other grand old homes, but Millford, he said, was "the finest example of pre-Civil War Greek Revival architecture in America".
Some of Mr. Bush's advisers have pointed to the Kennedy decision to impose a naval blockade on Cuba -- and to threaten drastic action if the missiles were not removed -- as an example of pre-emptive military action.
The sequester — that package of draconian cuts to the federal budget that could well send the economy spinning back into recession — is, as James Surowiecki detailed in his column in the magazine last year, an example of pre-commitment as incentive.
This classic example of pre-war French "poetic realism", directed by the great Belgian movie-maker Jacques Feyder, centres on an upper-class playboy business man (Pierre Richard-withm) with financial problems being compelled to leave Paris and his high-maintenance lover Florence, and join the Foreign Legion in Morocco.
Without it, Shakespeare's Henry plays would be little more than strident nationalism (in fact Hal owes more to that prince than to the Hal in "Infinite Jest"), "The Remains of the Day" a long lesson in butlering and "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" a simple Russian example of pre-Babbittry.
He was an example of pre-Internet nerd fame.
Figure 5 Example of pre-discretized twins datasets.
The new fossil species of Dracaena represents a classic example of pre-adaptation and niche shift.
In this section, we present an example of pre-operative planning for brain tumor resection using the sMRI and dMRI data.
In this paper, we present an example of pre-column derivatization method that was newly configured to take into account both the biological and chemical properties of the substances in question.
