Sentence examples for precede in time from inspiring English sources

First, we align with NCBI BLAST [34] the two segments to the sequences in the target database, which precede in time the strain of interest.

For example, Zajonc (1980) unmistakably states that "affective judgments are fairly independent of, and precede in time, perceptual and cognitive operations" (p.1).

Hence, the block preceding (in time) the one satisfying the TD or σ 2 condition should be intra-coded, too.

Since that which is natural and innate in man precedes in time that which is in man by will and choice, the first type of investigation will precede the second even if both must arrive at a certain science.

The four more strictly rural poems preceded in time the three which may be called "courtly" in virtue of their praises of the emperor (I, IV, VII): some, indeed, may have been written before Nero succeeded to the purple.

A particular acorn is, of course, temporally prior to the particular oak tree that it grows into, but it is preceded in time by the actual oak tree that produced it, with which it is identical in species.

In naturalistic explanations the explanans is an antecedent condition, an event which precedes in time the event whose cause it is said to be; in mentalistic explanation the explanans is the logical ground of an action, the motive or thought that renders it intelligible.

The categorical distinction between bona fide and fiat boundaries, however, is considered to be absolute – while fiat boundaries mark potential bona fide boundaries of an object, they never turn into bona fide boundaries themselves, but can only be considered to precede them in time in case their bona fide counterparts emerge as a result of some 'cutting/dividing' event in the future [16].

This latest volume, which precedes "Voyagers" in time, sketches the world of Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans, then recounts the transit of a "mixed multitude" of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to the shores of this continent.

According to this argument, then, it is obvious that actuality is prior in substantial being to potency; and as we have said, one actuality always precedes another in time right back to the actuality of the eternal prime mover.

Although other mound forms preceded them in time, the first effigy mounds were built about ad 300; in some places people continued to build them as late as the mid-1600s.