Sentence examples for postdates from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Magma, formed by melting deep within Earth, cuts across and hence postdates all units as it rises through the crust, perhaps even to emerge at the surface as lava.

In its present form the Contest Between Homer and Hesiod, ending in Hesiod's victory, postdates the emperor Hadrian (2nd century).

The contemporary city, which largely postdates a devastating hurricane of 1955, has few cultural institutions apart from the University of Quintana Roo (1991), a museum of Mayan culture, and a city museum.

Tsi looks to his past and wonders, "Where does a river begin to take its journey to the sea?" The world in which Oupa the son of Mary, Tsi's sister lives postdates the Soweto uprising of 1976, a time when resistance to apartheid took hold of a new generation and South Africa witnessed attacks and bombings.

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

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.