HONG KONG — There were many expectations for the first Art Basel Hong Kong, but no one thought the Swiss fair's first foray into Asia would be quieter than its local predecessor, ART HK.
More impressive still, built into ledges on the cliffs above the Dogon villages are the buildings that the locals' predecessors, the pygmy Tellem, used until they left the area or were extirpated around the 14th century.
When an organizer from Local 958, a predecessor to Local 108, showed up handing out pledge cards one morning, Mr. Escobar signed immediately and started recruiting fellow workers.
The men who lynched the Malcolms and Dorseys in 1946 did not advertise ahead of time in local newspapers, as their predecessors did, or encourage their neighbours to attend with families and picnic baskets in tow.
Augustus brought a far greater portion of the Empire's expanded land base under consistent, direct taxation from Rome, instead of exacting varying, intermittent, and somewhat arbitrary tributes from each local province as Augustus' predecessors had done.
Like their garage rock predecessors, these local scenes were facilitated by enthusiastic impresarios who operated nightclubs or organized concerts in venues such as schools, garages, or warehouses, advertised via inexpensively printed flyers and fanzines.
He became commander of the Ghost Brigade when his predecessor, a local maverick and Soviet idealist called Aleksey Mozgovoy, was killed in a roadside ambush in May.
Croydon clinical commissioning group (CCG) said the trends occurred under its predecessor, the local primary care trust, which it succeeded in April and it was pursuing a different approach.
They are large donors in Charlotte and to the Harvard Business School, have been shareholders in the bank since the early 1980s, when they sold a local bank to the predecessor of Bank of America.
