Sentence examples for precursory from inspiring English sources

C. 1530 near Płock, Poland October 31, 1607 Ciazen, Poland Wawrzyniec Goślicki, Latin pseudonym Laurentius Grimalus (born c. 1530, near Płock, Pol. died Oct. 31, 1607, Ciążeń) Roman Catholic bishop and diplomat whose political writings were precursory to Catholic liberalism.

Criticized by some historians for his overweening ambition and political duplicity, Psellus made lasting contributions to Byzantine culture, including the reform of the university curriculum to emphasize the Greek classics, especially the Homeric literature that, with Platonist thought, he interpreted as precursory to Christian revelation.

The essential difference between the homosporous and heterosporous life history is the presence in the latter of two spore types (microspores and megaspores) and their concomitant precursory structures (microsporocytes and megasporocytes; microsporangia and megasporangia; etc.) and subsequent structures (microgametophytes and megagametophytes).

Also, some investigators have reported changes in the electric resistivity and remanent magnetization of rocks as precursory phenomena.

WASHINGTON — This was the first glimpse, a tantalizing but precursory peek, at what a $183 million team looks like.

The "ES" initials of Smythson's powerful patron, Bess of Hardwick, are set into the stonework of the towers like a precursory corporate logo.

I'll never forget how disappointing my friend the writer Anatole Broyard (who, I realize in hindsight, suffered from a precursory case of Real Estate Lust) found my parents' apartment when he paid me a visit there one Saturday afternoon while I was recuperating from an illness.

On Whitehead's precursory work, see Simons (1991b). 5. Actually, the original Calculus of Individuals had variables for classes; a class-free, purely nominalistic version of the system appeared later in Goodman (1951).