Sentence examples for great precursor from inspiring English sources
"This will give us a great, great precursor for the Chrysler IPO.
The bulldozing by Islamic State of Nineveh, the flattening of Hatra, the demolition in Raqqa and now the destruction of Nimrud wipe from the map what were the great precursor cities of the European era.
His great precursor and influence here was Warhol, the inspiration for his 1971 song "Andy Warhol" and a role Mr. Bowie would actually play in the 1996 biopic "Basquiat".
Among Popper's possessions is a boxed set of Charlie Chaplin DVDs, and while it may be presumptuous of Mr. Carrey to clown in such company, he is also paying tribute to a great precursor.
This sculpture originally featured as an attraction in that great precursor to department stores and exhibition centres such as Earls Court or the NEC, and it was presented as both piously improving and desirable home decoration.
As is Lethem's generous habit, all six essays honor writers who, except for the then-ascendant Bolaño and of course West ("the great precursor to Heller, Pynchon, Philip K. Dick, Colson Whitehead and so much else"), have been underpraised.
More commonly, the minor masters smooth out what may sound rugged, bold or odd in the music of their great precursors.
A hundred years earlier, Ghazali had written a book called "The Incoherence of the Philosophers," in which he attacked Greeks like Aristotle, the Neoplatonists, and their allies, Ibn Rushd's great precursors Ibn Sina and al-Farabi.
The new freedom and spirit of inquiry in the Italian city-states had been a factor in encouraging the great precursors of the Renaissance in Italy, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.
Moving through two more lycées in Algiers, Derrida was introduced to the two great precursors in 20th-century French philosophy, with whom, oddly perhaps, he never engaged at any length in print, Bergson and Sartre; he was more taken by his discovery of Kierkegaard and Heidegger.
The dependence of the diameters of the nanorods may be due to the effects of the density of neighboring nanorods which can hinder nanorods growth; and also, the nanorods at the edge have a greater precursor chemical source supply than are present for the high density ZnO nanorods in the central regions.
