To trace his history, Tristram goes back beyond his birth.
We're all trying to keep it new, and keep alive a tradition that goes back beyond us," Duffy affirms.
The urban grid goes back beyond Hippodamus of Miletus, the Greek urban planner, who, like the street commissioners, viewed the matrix as a manifestation of "the rationality of civilized life".
In the midst of this explosion of color was the apothecary rose, which became the Red Rose of Lancaster, the oldest rose in continuous cultivation, going back beyond the year 1310 in Europe.
A personal allegiance to Barnsley FC goes back beyond my own birth, when my father befriended a man named Charlie Baines, who kept a pub in Ardsley, a South Yorkshire mining village.
The pose of wry outsider at other people's parties goes back beyond Hollinghurst to Seneca's contemporary, Petronius, author of The Satyricon, whose hero offers droll commentary on the vulgar dinner-theatre of his host Trimalchio.
He had not lived in his native China since he was 5. "We just feel that some of these charges are very minor in nature and some of these conversations go back beyond a decade for people who've demonstrated that they've lived productive lives in the interim," Mr. Paterson said.
Honneth goes back beyond Lukács and Marx to early Hegel and locates the basis of reification not in social, economic or structural terms but in the problem of "recognition" or what Plato called Thymos which, alongside reason and eros form the three basic parts of our psyche.
But no firmly documented chronology of rulers, reigns and conquests -- of the sort that exists for ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia -- actually goes back beyond 841 B.C. "This has been a major regret for Chinese history and world history," said Li Xueqin, a prominent historian, today at a news conference to disclose the results of the project.
