Sentence examples for postdated from inspiring English sources

An informal system by which firms used postdated cheques to pay for supplies has broken down, in part because banks are warier of taking them as collateral for short-term loans.

At the summit's closing press conference, Tony Blair, the host, appeared a little exasperated by the grudging tone of some of the questions he had to field.Some campaigners complain that the Gleneagles "cheque" is postdated.

The long and violent Chicago race riot of 1919, though it postdated his article, likely strengthened his convictions.

After Greece won its independence, Otto, the first king of the Hellenes, had everything that postdated the Classical period swept away, set scholars to work identifying the remains, and encouraged some reconstruction.

Certain other changes shared by the Western Romance languages, especially the collapse of ē /i/ and ĭ /ı/, might have postdated the linguistic separation of Sardinia and parts of southern Italy from the other areas, while the distinct development of ō /o/ and ŭ /u/ in Romanian and Vegliot suggests a split between Eastern and Western Romance at a later date.

Although statues of Zeus Herkeios (Guardian of the House) and altars of Zeus Xenios (Hospitable) graced the forecourts of houses, and though his mountaintop shrines were visited by pilgrims, Zeus did not have a temple at Athens until the late 6th century bc, and even his temple at Olympia postdated that of Hera.

The time of deformation can be bracketed, however, if datable units, which both predate and postdate it, can be identified.

Peking man postdates Java man and is considered more advanced in having a larger cranial capacity, a forehead, and nonoverlapping canines.

A second Paleo-Indian horizon, which seems in part to be contemporary with the Clovis material and partially to postdate it, is the Folsom phase of the central high plains.

Most researchers agree that the physical characteristics shown by modern humans are of more recent origin and certainly postdate the Chancelade specimen.

Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas de Caritat Condorcet's progressivist interpretation of the Crusades in his Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain (1795; Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind) postdates Jefferson's metaphor and cannot have been the inspiration.