Sentence examples for precursor to the second from inspiring English sources

I was smoking, too – it was that long ago – but even at the time I thought to myself, This isn't the main event, this is some forerunner, just as herpes was the trailer for Aids, or the Spanish civil war was a precursor to the second world war.

After all, this year's Cinderella remake warmed our hearts, minds and tear ducts, so maybe with the right cast we can look past the fact that this Rob Marshall-directed installment will take place 20 years after the original (thus making the infamous run on the bank seem like a weird precursor to the second world war or something but hey, look, that's fine), and set our sights on victory.

We'd seen a bit of a precursor to the second debate in Paul Ryan and Joe Biden's showdown the week before, but just because theVP appeared comfortable didn't mean his boss would follow suit.

Questions about labor dominated the 45-minute news conference that served as a precursor to the first full negotiating session since Thanksgiving.

Noah Webster produced his Spelling Book, in 1783, as a precursor to the first edition (1828) of his American Dictionary of the English Language.

The iPad in question, according to a great bit of digging by Yoni Heisler at NetworkWorld, is the one that Jonathan Ive remembers as being the true precursor to the first iPad model.

Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans to Rumilly, 186.5 km The first of three mountainous stages to conclude the Dauphiné, the fifth stage of the race was seen as a precursor to the tenth stage of July's Tour de France, with the majority of the day's route making up the parcours of that stage to be held on 11 July.

Both Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's Facundo and José Marmol's Amalia, published in the nineteenth century, were precursors to the twentieth century dictator novel; however, "all fictional depictions of the Latin American 'strong-man', have an important antecedent in Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's Facundo, a work written as a sociolodical treatise".

In Sittenfeld's telling, the crash becomes a precursor to the former First Lady's lifelong discomfort about her own agency.

The RTG (abbreviated from the French Rame à Turbine à Gaz, or gas turbine train) model was an Americanized version of the French ANF T 2000 RTG Turbotrain (related to the prototype precursor to the very first TGV trainset, the TGV 001).

His father had become an officer in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, in second world war London, and Scaife maintained an interest in clandestine activities.