Sentence examples for forerunner of the from inspiring English sources

NKVD, Soviet secret police agency, a forerunner of the KGB.

Pyramids was a forerunner of the game snooker.

Pool was a forerunner of the game snooker.

The Konversationslexikon was the forerunner of the Brockhaus encyclopaedias.

"Bill was the forerunner of the modern middle linebacker".

This group was the forerunner of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

Epping became a forerunner of the national parks idea.

Human Rights (1953-1998), in a way a forerunner of the European Court of HR.

A device capable of calculating any mathematical operation, it is the genuine forerunner of the computer.

According to Billy Arthur, the film was the forerunner of the pageant (12).

He replaced it with a departmental bureaucracy that was the forerunner of the modern constitutional state.