Sentence examples for have been preceded from inspiring English sources

This order entry process may have been preceded by some cost estimating, quoting, and contracting processes.

Previous attempts to agree ceasefires have been preceded by attacks by both sides.

The National Assembly elections have been preceded by a crackdown on dissidents.

Bingham may have been preceded by the German adventurer Augusto Berns, who, some scholars believe, visited the site in 1867.

The meditative ascetic of Hinduism may have been preceded in Indonesia by the entranced shaman (priest-healer).

Many are also involved in sexual relationships without marriage intentions, and over half of recent marriages have been preceded by a period of cohabitation.

Here as elsewhere individualism seems to have been preceded by a sort of family communism like that of India, ireland and the South Slavonian principalities.

Belief in moralizing gods followed the expansion of human societies and may have been preceded by doctrinal rituals that contributed to the initial rise of social complexity.

He expects his departure "to have been preceded by severe pain, fear, and exasperation at the imprecise or euphemistic use of language around me".

Throughout history few, if any, societal transformations have been preceded by so much scrutiny and speculation about all the ways they could go wrong.

Most of the parole board's nine rejections of Mr. Trantino's applications have been preceded by protest rallies and candlelight vigils by police officers and county officials.