Sentence examples for historical predecessors from inspiring English sources

Nowadays, special forces are maintained on a permanent basis, which gives them greater capabilities than their historical predecessors.

This book introduces today's progressives to their historical predecessors, while offering an ambitious reinterpretation of issues in American political history.

Because of this, there is no contradiction at all in a dish's being traditional and yet differing significantly from its historical predecessors.

His best works — like the National Museum of Roman Art in Mérida, Spain, and an expansion of the 19th-century Atocha railway station in Madrid — are part of a continuing dialogue with his historical predecessors.

The Whitney Museum's mandate is to show contemporary art and it successfully represents that creative demographic by fostering young talent instead of forcing premature comparisons between living artists and their historical predecessors.

The one thing that now seems certain is that a healthcare bill will pass both chambers of Congress, and while many pundits will count the left out of the process after Snowe's engagement, modern progressives have proven to be a far more resilient lot than their immediate historical predecessors.

He cautioned them not to confuse Google for its historical predecessor, Microsoft.

A historical predecessor to home visiting programs, parent aide services have been operating in hundreds of communities across the United States for several decades, but there has never been a controlled evaluation determining whether they work or not.

Head grammars allow insertion of a complement between the head of a phrase (e.g., the initial verb of a VP, the final noun of a NP, or the VP of a sentence) and an already present complement; they were a historical predecessor of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), a type of unification grammar (see below) that has received much attention in computational linguistics.

Though a bit gruffer than his historical predecessor, Chief Inspector Foyle, Gently is one of those hard-working, rigorously decent detectives who, even in this age of television plenty, seem to be in such short supply.

The financial control board that Gov. Hugh Carey, a Democrat, created in response has been cited as a historical predecessor to the Detroit financial control board pushed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican.