Sentence examples for in a forerunner from inspiring English sources

In a forerunner to Obama's pivot to Asia, George W Bush's administration launched a strategic partnership with Delhi, partly as a counterbalance to China.

In west Belfast's Ballymurphy, a civilian population was massacred by British paratroopers in a forerunner of the war crime that would become universally known as Bloody Sunday.

In a forerunner of the chronicle play, John Bale's Kynge Johan, all the characters except the king himself are allegorical and have names such as Widow England, Sedition, and Private Wealth.

This was none other than Gabriele D'Annunzio, the poet and lothario who seduced Italy to wartime slaughter with his rhetoric, scandalised Europe with his writing and set up his own city state in a forerunner of fascism.

In a forerunner of the impoverished-nation-sponsors-title-fight template that Don King would perfect the exploitation of in Zaire and the Philippines, the ring in question was situated in the National Stadium of Kingston, Jamaica.

The first version of this pyramid was built in the latter half of the 3rd century AD; it was built in a forerunner of the talud-tablero style and had three levels.

Founded in 1958 by Deborah Szekely and her then-husband, Edmond, the Golden Door initially accommodated just 12 guests as an upscale alternative to Rancho La Puerta, the "health camp" the Szekelys opened in 1940 in Tecate, Mexico, a forerunner of today's wellness retreats.

Some have detected in Bacon a forerunner of Karl Popper in respect of the method of falsification.

Du Bois in founding the Niagara Movement in 1905, a forerunner of the NAACP.

Dr. Thorn was physician in chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, a forerunner of Brigham and Women's Hospital, from 1942 to 1972.

It was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, who established al-Qaida in Iraq, a forerunner of Isis.