His church is the Syrian Jacobite, which long antedates the Greek.
Of course, the gothic atmospherics long antedated Rice, and she looked to them for inspiration.
While its regional and sectoral impact can be debated (mass Mexican migration to the north long antedated the agreement and, in recent years, net migration has in fact ceased), Nafta has, on balance, benefited Mexico, in part by codifying the economic relationship and curbing American unilateralism.
He is not at all an "intellectual," has no special scholarly interest, but is much devoted to his church, the Syrian Jacobite Church, which long antedates the Greek and boasts that its line comes direct from the Holy See of Antioch, founded by Peter, and that it ruled at one time the whole Christian East.
Although the idea of the social contract long antedates the modern era (Gough 1967), its full development occurred in the seventeenth century, when Thomas Hobbes and John Locke used the theory to rather different ends.
Moreover, fiddling with the picture long antedates the era of digital photography and Photoshop manipulations: it has always been possible for a photograph to misrepresent.
Their weaving techniques long antedated the arrival of Spanish sheep; a native cotton provided ample fibre for intricate weaves coloured with native dyes.
An executive order giving former Presidents the power to keep their papers indefinitely sealed is one example among many of a mania for secrecy that long antedates 9/11.
The soft-bodied phylactolaemates, on the other hand, have left no fossil record, and fossilized ctenostomes are rare but long antedate the cheilostomes.
In fact, what could be called the "music instinct" long antedates the human race, and may be as widespread in nature as is a taste for bright colors, musky perfumes and flamboyant courtship displays.
