In 1938, the year in which it was superseded by a wider-ranging body, the Nansen Office was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In the United Kingdom, a reform in 1824 made the troy pound the primary weight unit (a role in which it was superseded half a century later by the Avoirdupois pound), but this had no effect on apothecaries' weights.
Better access to the Soviet end of the story is this biography's main advantage over AN Wilson's Tolstoy, published in 1988, which it's billed as superseding.
But the sitting town board called a meeting this month at which it passed a town law superseding state law on petitions.
One of the best studied farming cultures is the Linearbandkeramik (LBK), which arose in what is today Hungary about 7500 years ago and spread as far as modern-day Paris within 500 years, after which it appears to have been superseded by other cultures.
It superseded the Scottish Arts Council, which was formed in 1994 following a restructuring of the Arts Council of Great Britain, but had existed as an autonomous body since a royal charter of 1967.
It's all about identifying which goal supersedes your other goals, and finding a way to make it work within your means.
This early cult seems to have prepared the way for the Pure Land traditions involving Amitabha, which gradually superseded it.
And the European Stability Mechanism, which formally superseded it today, has not fully come into life.Just a few weeks ago the euro zone was hugely relieved when the German constitutional court turned down pleas to block the ESM.
Again, this is all based on his "natural instinct," which apparently supersedes whatever UN scientists prepared that harrowing report.
The counterculture radicalism which the novel anatomised is now itself history, as is (in Britain at least) the right-wing radicalism which superseded it.
