Sentence examples for immediate forerunner from inspiring English sources
The immediate forerunner of the modern game was developed in Ireland, where handball was played about 1,000 years ago.
Time magazine's immediate forerunner was the Pathfinder (1894 1954), a weekly rewriting of the news for rural readers.
In the preface, he paid his dues to "my countryman and immediate forerunner, Charles Lever" - a 19th-century Irish novelist.
The concert focused on "American Beauty," but dipped into its immediate forerunner, "Workingman's Dead," and went on other sidetracks.
In 1589 the sophisticated Florentine court produced an intermezzo called Harmony of the Spheres, a spectacular type of masque that incorporated music; it was the immediate forerunner of opera.
It's the immediate forerunner for a series of big game-changers Jobs will roll out in rapid succession over the next decade -- iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad -- which transform mobile communications and computing and the consumer end of the music and movie businesses.
These fishing boats were the immediate forerunners of those now built specifically for racing, which became an organized sport in the 1930s.
It was a transformative moment, the forerunner of the Kennedy Nixon debates in 1960; its immediate effect was to influence the outcome of the Oregon primary — the final contest before Republicans met in Philadelphia, in late June, to choose a nominee.
It was a transformative moment, the forerunner of the Kennedy Nixon debates in 1960; its immediate effect was to influence the outcome of the Oregon primary the final contest before Republicans met in Philadelphia, in late June, to choose a nominee.
Its revelations about human trafficking in postwar Bosnia are, if anything, more devastating and far more immediate than the dirty deeds uncovered in many of its much-decorated forerunners.
