Harris, a professor of American literature and culture, focusses on rhetorical rather than on physical battles, and casts this early colonial adventure as a precursor to present-day conflicts.
Midway through the book, he fell ill; recovering, he read, with that special blurry focus that comes from being out of sorts, the Mahavamsa, in which he discovered the mythic and minatory figure of Dutugemunu, a precursor to present-day Sinhalese cruelty.
In 1931, Ernst August Friedrich Ruska, while working at Siemens-Reiniger-Werke Siemens-Reiniger-Werke Siemens-Reiniger-Werke AGthe first transmission electron microscoprecursor
Surely it is a precursor to present-day claims about the dependence e.g., the supervenience of comparatively evaluative aesthetic qualities on comparatively descriptive aesthetic qualities.
"Play streets", the precursors to present-day "home zones", were legislated for as early as the mid-20th century, but their value to children and community life was overlooked as car use took prominence from the 1960s onwards.
The water-oxidation reaction probably first appeared in nature ∼3 billion years ago in the precursors to present-day cyanobacteria, although the exact timing is not yet entirely clear.
Abdul Aziz, whose ancestors founded a precursor to the present Saudi state in 1744, chose his wives partly to secure alliances with other Arabian tribes.
It's too easy for us to assume that the past is merely precursor to the present, as if we had absorbed all its wisdoms and replaced its outmoded tools, rendering it irrelevant.
A precursor to the present "Shuffle" is "The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece," a continuing extravaganza that at last count had more than 200 painted and sculptural elements, extended more than 1,000 feet and was still growing.
