Sentence examples for preceding achievements from inspiring English sources

In 1943, Duchamp paid tribute to Picasso's innovation, writing that his "main contribution to art" was his ability, in each of the many phases of his career, "to keep free from preceding achievements," without any "repetition in his uninterrupted flow of masterpieces".

Certainly, not among the beneficiaries is any sober ranking of great performance – and proper respect for all that has preceded the achievements of boxing in Calzaghe's native valleys and the rest of Britain.

William F. Buckley's physical decline seems to have been, in its way, as prodigious as all the activity and achievements preceding it.

The preceding section summarised the achievements in the development of adjoint-based shape optimisation methods for external aerodynamics of vehicles.

Not all the achievements of the preceding period of normal science are preserved in a revolution, and indeed a later period of science may find itself without an explanation for a phenomenon that in an earlier period was held to be successfully explained.

Organisers said the prize was given to an outstanding museum that, in their view, had shown exceptional imagination, innovation and achievement across the preceding 12 months.

When he rather undiplomatically described his French counterpart at a key environmental conference as too tired to reach an agreement, it received 10 times as much publicity as his achievement at the preceding Kyoto conference.

Spingarn Medal, gold medal awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACPP) since 1915 to honour "the man or woman of African descent and American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year or years in any honorable field" (as it was phrased when the award was founded).

"Chinese Americans are an ethnic group for whom high achievement preceded high I.Q.

When it comes into force, on 1 January 2015, it will be the most advanced organisation for regional cooperation the former Soviet bloc has seen, an achievement preceded by many false starts.

She has 3 gold medals in IMO 1989 (41 points), IMO 1990 (42) and IMO 1991 (42), missing only 1 point in 1989 to precede Manolescu's achievement.