This work inaugurated the modern anthropological study of kinship systems as the basic organizing principle in most preindustrial societies.
From an action-hungry conspirator in local burgher plots, he became a Reformer who began to see the work inaugurated by Luther as a fundamental change in both ecclesiastical and secular life and therefore as a revolution.
The work inaugurated a new era in Russian scholarship with its depiction of Russia as evolving through organic and rational processes from a primitive, family-based society into a centralized, autocratic state.
Their work inaugurated the development of descriptive set theory by extending Cantor's studies on definable sets of real numbers (in which he had established that the Continuum Hypothesis is valid for closed sets).
Despite the multiple murders at its heart, Cocaine Nights is one of Ballard's most relaxed works, inaugurating what you might call his late period – that slight flattening of style and deceleration that mark his four last, and four longest, fictions.
In 2001, he chose her work to inaugurate his Underwood Street gallery in London.
The Korean artist Lee Ufan has been commissioned to produce a site-specific work to inaugurate the sculpture garden there.
It has been hard for Barber's work, which inaugurated the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in 1966, to escape its reputation as a dismal failure.
The Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, covering an author's or illustrator's entire body of children's work, was inaugurated in 2010 in honour of King and children's book author Virginia Hamilton.
Before stepping down in 1979, she brought Bellevue Hospital's nursing school into the college, expanded health care training, raised money to start a gerontology program in the school of social work and inaugurated a women's studies program.
