Sentence examples for important predecessor to from inspiring English sources

It also became an important predecessor to the muckraking journalism that took shape in the United States after 1900.

An important predecessor to the Stanford work has been the use of genetically engineered yeast to produce the anti-malarial drug artemisinin.

Those on the ARPANET, as the most important predecessor to the Internet was named, soon would use it to trade messages, exchange files and gain remote access to computers.

He saw his role and the role of all useful criticism as similar to that of his important predecessor Matthew Arnold: the "disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world". To do this, Trilling brought a wide range of ideas and positions to bear on his subjects.

What became clear only in retrospect was that it also showed him to be the most important predecessor of Giuseppe Verdi.

That's when we decided it was important, our predecessors, to federally insure banks.

The ARPANET — the Internet's most important predecessor, created by a Pentagon research agency — was about to be shut down after two decades.

But if Steinbrenner is deserving, what about Jacob Ruppert, his most important predecessor?

In tone these essays are far more serious than those of his most important predecessor, Joseph Addison, published in The Spectator (1711 12; 1714).

The zoopraxiscope display, an important predecessor of the modern cinema, was a sensation at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago.

The book arrives on the fiftieth anniversary of its most important predecessor: a slim government report written by an Assistant Secretary of Labor and first printed in an edition of a hundred.