Sentence examples for over their forebears from inspiring English sources

Fundamental to a gripping account of the Symphony No. 7 was Mr. Gardiner's taut rhythmic conception, brilliantly negotiated by players light-years advanced over their forebears in the period-instrument revival in terms of security and style.

While this is hardly the first time that idealistic young people wanted to get back to the garden, the current crop have advantages over their forebears from the 1960s and 70s, many of whom, inspired by the Whole Earth Catalog or Wendell Berry's books about agrarian values, headed to the country, only to find it impossible to make a living.

Still, Republicans do have advantages over their forebears in 1965 and 1933.

Rather than spend days trekking over land as their forebears did, making the haj almost impossible for Muslims in far-flung lands, today pilgrims from across the globe can fly or bus into Mecca.

When it last happened, at the 1958 World Cup, their journey ended there, though this time they have two significant advantages over their distant forebears: their best player – John Charles of Juventus on that occasion, Gareth Bale this – will not spend the game nursing an injury in the stands, and they do not have to play Brazil featuring a teenage Pelé and Garrincha at his zenith.

Now at the journey's end some will yearn to do it all over again, but for now they have one major advantage over their medieval forebears: they do not have to turn around and walk back home again.

On that night, the local Protestants celebrated their forebears' victory over a Catholic army three centuries earlier in the Battle of the Boyne.

But Americans will pay $14.99 for second-hand car histories from Carfax.com, $12.95 for personal credit-rating data from Equifax.com and $189.95 a year to search for their forebears at Ancestry.com, which claims over 900,000 paying subscribers.

Today tea farmers preside over large plantations, but they want their tea the way their forebears consumed it: brewed from wild leaves, and preferably from ancient trees in the jungle.

Like most Muslims in India, their forebears were low- to middle- caste Hindus who converted to Islam over centuries.

Inspired by modern genetics, they have been disinterring their forebears.