An important precursor to change is to raise awareness.
Mr. Ruscha was an important precursor to today's serial photographers.
Do you think being a mother is an important precursor to writing well about it?
The Chinese were central to a school segregation lawsuit considered by some to be an important precursor to the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case.
However, this work was an important precursor to later developments in bariatric surgery, which has now become a major component of the management of obesity.
— The Hollywood writers' strike has claimed many casualties in the past few weeks, including this Sunday's Golden Globes award ceremony, an important precursor to the Oscars.
This concept was an important precursor to the development of the theory of plate tectonics, which incorporates it.
Although Büchner didn't live to see his dramatic work staged he died, of typhus, at the age of twenty-three—"Danton's Death," in its structure and its ambition, is an important precursor to modern drama.
While the book is seen today as an important precursor to the novel, as part of a new genre of realistic fiction, it was designed, at least in part, to confuse and to question.
Nilpferd was also on hand with some fascinating suggestions, notably the surrealist writer Urmuz, an important precursor to one of Romania's most famous literary sons, the Romanian-French playwright Eugen Ionescu.
The new version (Nabokov's first English literary production), which he retitled "Laughter in the Dark," is a masterful short novel about an older man's obsession with a young girl, and is today considered an important precursor to "Lolita".
