Banks excelled at such practices during the 1980 s Latin American debt crisis, a forerunner of the current subprime crisis. |
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In Norway the public broadcaster is a forerunner in blurring the borders between traditional broadcast media and mobile media. |
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Britain extracted a mandate to run it from the League of Nations, forerunner of the United Nations. |
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The Prince Consort essay shown here can be regarded as the forerunner of later Victorian stamps. |
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An expert on his nakers might well be accomplished on other instruments, like the symphony, a forerunner of the hurdy-gurdy. |
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The Shinkansen was a forerunner of high-speed railways throughout the world. |
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The Whitbread was first run in 1957 and was the forerunner of all modern-day sponsorships. |
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It was an unguided ballistic missile and the forerunner of today's intercontinental ballistic missiles and tactical ballistic missiles. |
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The forerunner of today's thrill-filled white knuckle rides has been putting people in York in a spin. |
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Was it perhaps a warning about female intemperance, an early forerunner of Mother's Ruin? |
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In 1816, the forerunner of the modern stethoscope came to be discovered in France. |
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Mr Freeman said some people were opposed to anything they saw as a forerunner of development. |
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Is this a forerunner of what to expect when the Germany Beck development of up to 700 homes is complete? |
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The initiative was perhaps the forerunner of today's hospitality boxes, although with a slight difference. |
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This was the forerunner of the caduceus, the snake-entwined rod which is today the emblem of the medical profession. |
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This was an early forerunner of the programmes developed some twenty years later for mainstreaming disabled children. |
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It was generally a parody or skit on more serious opera, a forerunner of the satirical revue. |
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Roy's hard-boiled man with a softer side is the forerunner of characters like Sam Spade, and the beginning of film-noir. |
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The suburb is more of an ad hoc social development, a forerunner of the gated community, built around the principle of exclusion. |
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The oud is an ancient Arabic guitar, the forerunner of today's acoustic guitar, and the bouzouki is a Greek guitar. |
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The discovery that directly supplanted gunpowder for use in firearms was guncotton, a forerunner of smokeless powder. |
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West Africa regional HIV-AIDS policy conference intended to be the forerunner of a regional network on HIV-AIDS policy. |
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In the quote cited above, he placed special emphasis on the fact that not he but the message would be the forerunner. |
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In the 1860s, George Leclanche of France developed what would be the forerunner of the world's first widely used battery-the zinc carbon cell. |
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Goals: Obtain a fine, delicate base wine with notes of fresh fruit, to be the forerunner to a great sparkling wine. |
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His enquiring mind made itself obvious very early on, when he put together the forerunner to AM stereo radio in a crystal set at home, when he was only 11 years old. |
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This new method not only revolutionized the dangerous field of indoor photography, but also was the forerunner to photographic flashbulbs and floodlights. |
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Until 1893, when the forerunner of the Badminton Association of England was formed, there were no laws governing the size of court dimensions, numbers of players or scoring. |
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Turing conceived and built a computer, the forerunner of all digital computations, that cracked the code. |
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This commitment and will is in the genes and experience of the Lafuma Group, a world-class forerunner in sustainable development. |
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How does the medium stack up against its digital forerunner, laserdiscs? |
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By contrast, Ashraf Ghani, the current forerunner in the partial second round results, got record support in Pashtun areas. |
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I see Dickens as the forerunner to people like Chaplin and Woody Allen, really. |
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In short, it was the forerunner of the old people's home, built around the theme of salvation, no less! |
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In response, he sang the Benedictus, a magnificent summary of God's promises in the Old Testament and a prediction of John's work as forerunner to Jesus. |
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Another significant 19th-century forerunner was Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote many works loosely classifiable as science fiction. |
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The forerunner of the automated teller machine, it was activated with a key, a plastic card and a personal identification number. |
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A Sabbath well spent brings a week of content, and strength for the toils of the morrow, but a Sabbath profaned, whate'er may be gained, is a certain forerunner of sorrow. |
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The creation of Marquis wheat, forerunner of nearly all bread wheats in western Canada, illustrates how plant breeders built on the legacy left by generations of farmers. |
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Instead it was added at the cooking stage through the addition of substances like garum, which was made from salted anchovies, the forerunner of today's ketchup. |
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This situation has almost been reached in Denmark, and the trend may be a forerunner of a development that has begun or will begin in other European countries. |
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As a decorative feature, the anta is considered to be the forerunner of the pilaster. |
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He patented over 1,000 inventions, including the phonograph, the mimeograph and the kinetoscope, a forerunner of motion pictures. |
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Traders suggested this stake-building could be the forerunner of a possible bid. |
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In 1948, he choreographed and directed the dance film Kalpana, which was to be the forerunner of the Bollywood musical. |
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A forerunner without anyone following reminds me a little of Don Quixote, whom we should not be emulating. |
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The term actually designates a two-master whose foremast holds square sails and the mainmast the forerunner of the lug sail, the spanker. |
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Of particular interest was a room containing 30 columns, regarded by some scholars to be the forerunner of the Achaemenian columned hall. |
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As he did, I believe Canada must be the forerunner in the pursuit and protection of peace. |
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The conference is a forerunner to the all-important Paris meeting in December where countries hope to sign a global agreement on climate action. |
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As far as Bangalore is concerned, the erstwhile City Improvement Trust Board was the forerunner in developing housing layouts as early as in the nineteen fifties. |
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In internalising external costs inland navigation as a relatively little used transport mode should not be the forerunner. |
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It asserts Canada's position as a forerunner of multilateralism and a proponent of peace and civility. |
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The Belgian Presidency is proceeding with the same robust and regular rhythm as its Swedish forerunner. |
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Elijah has come as a forerunner in this time to prepare mankind for my arrival. |
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In this way, CCP became the voice and space for dialogue and served as the forerunner to the international mediation process. |
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Elijah, a spirit of great power who has not been recognized by humanity, has always been my forerunner. |
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If such cooperation proves successful, it could be the forerunner of similar arrangements in other parts of the world. |
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The Office for National Statistics of the UK has been a forerunner in successfully experimenting with this format. |
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Along with this, Farr developed a classification of diseases, the forerunner of today's international classifications administered by the World Health Organisation. |
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The Alliance should be the forerunner of an open method of coordination targeted on family policies. |
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Founded in 1977, Spa Eastman was already a forerunner because of its organic business and responsible health concept. |
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The EU's Integrated Maritime Policy positions it as a forerunner in this field. |
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This is a forerunner to the other ecocentres that will be opening over the coming years throughout the territory. |
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He remained the ambassador of the Kabyle community and was now recognised as a forerunner to world music. |
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With its repair ship, colliers, and hospital ships, it was a forerunner of the Task Force concept used four decades later in another war against Japan. |
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This initiative, new in Switzerland for an industrial building, prefigures a trend of which Audemars Piguet is proud to be the forerunner. |
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Plying the waves around 1877, this sailing ship was a forerunner of the grand transatlantic steamships that ran regular routes between Europe and North America in the late 19th century. |
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We may find ourselves going through stages foretyped by the forerunner and pioneer of our faith even as He died and arose again. |
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Then, in 1901, this same officer was given the task of establishing the Naval and Military League, the forerunner of the Red Shield Services. |
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A caricature of Mother Shipton was used in early pantomime and is believed by historians to be the forerunner of the Panto dame. |
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The act, a forerunner to trial by jury, started the abolition of trial by combat and trial by ordeal. |
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The first capable effort to systematically map the Antonine Wall was undertaken in 1764 by William Roy, the forerunner of the Ordnance Survey. |
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These three ships were the first tankers of the Tank Syndicate, forerunner of today's Royal Dutch Shell company. |
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In December 1790, he issued a state paper calling for the first central bank in the country's history, the forerunner of the Federal Reserve System. |
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We were to use these enlightened ones to act as a forerunner to contact, and over the past decade these plans jelled, resulting in a scenario we are close to completing. |
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But if you stick with it, and perhaps gen up on the story beforehand, it's strong, impressive stuff, and is very much a forerunner, stylistically speaking, to the rather more sedate Revengers Tragedy. |
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Working in Hut 8 at Bletchley Park, then the home of GCHQ's forerunner, the Government Code and Cypher School, Turing found a way of reading messages sent by the Germans, using a codebreaking machine called the bombe. |
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Ultimately, the experiment could be the forerunner of a large-scale operation involving the compost from urban areas being used in agricultural settings. |
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The declaration would be the forerunner of the formal solidarity clause which the European Convention has proposed for inclusion in the new Constitutional Treaty. |
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However, this decision should be the forerunner of other decisions, because toxic substances contained in soft PVC are not only present in toys but also in other everyday objects. |
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The lack of transparency around the negotiations is disquieting as it can be the forerunner of unpleasant surprises and makes it difficult to plan judiciously. |
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For example, it should be the forerunner in the development of ICT-based personalised health systems that will significantly improve diagnosis and treatment of diseases7 and prolong the independence of elderly people. |
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It is the intention that it should be the forerunner of many others. |
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In 1929, Doctor Lachartre, a dispensary pharmacist, proved to be the forerunner of dermo-cosmetology with his creation of the Hégor hair care brand. |
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In 1903, it was embodied in a soft toy, the forerunner of many comfort toys designed to be a child's favourite companion, to reassure and to accompany them into the land of dreams. |
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Space to Home... The launch of Hermes, a forerunner of the direct-to-home TV broadcast satellite, gives Canada the most powerful communications satellite of its time. |
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Not that I would be a forerunner, but the message was the forerunning. |
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The discovery of sulfa drugs in the 1930s proved to be the forerunner to the arrival of antibiotics, which also contributed to the control of disease. |
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A forerunner of the age of free mores, the idol of the generation of 1968, the rebel with a Beatles hair style was living brilliantly, breathlessly and turbulently. |
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Inevitably, I discovered a self-aware, restlessly questioning author, no more a fashioner of pretty verses about rural scenery than his forerunner, Thomas Hardy. |
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The treatment was a forerunner to electroconvulsive therapy. |
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The forerunner of the modern slide projector as well as moving pictures, magic lanterns retained their popularity for centuries and were also the first optical toy to be used for family entertainment in the home. |
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Kierkegaard's stress on the forlornness of the human condition, as well as on the absence of certainty concerning the possibility of salvation, made him an important forerunner of 20th-century existentialism. |
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Some specialists take this to show that speakers of the forerunner of the Anatolian languages separated from the common prehistoric speech community a few generations or a few centuries before other groups. |
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The well known French Luthier, genius in the art of copying, inventor, industrial forerunner, has seen plenty of Stradivarius instruments in his workshop. |
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The PPP reminded voters that when the forerunner to Mr Granger's party last held power, through rigged elections, from 1964 to 1992, basic goods such as cheese and wheat flour were almost unobtainable. |
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Love him and honor him as a forerunner and your mediator. |
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Elijah the prophet, the forerunner, the envoy of the Third Era, intercedes for his flock, prays for those who know not how to pray, and conceals with his mantle the blemish of the sinner, waiting for his regeneration. |
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This is the man who described the talks forum forerunner of the Good Friday agreement as the Fisher Price parliament, and whose pre-IRA disarmament Christmas request was a cartridge in a pear tree. |
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And without his decisive advocacy of de facto solidarity it would not have been possible to make progress towards a common market, the forerunner to political union. |
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Benefits of the Alberta program will only be available to Alberta producers, but many observers believe the Alberta initiative will be a forerunner for a carbon offset trading program that's eventually delivered nationally. |
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To be the forerunner of His second coming. |
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Given Turkey's good relations with the European Union, especially with the ESDP, and France's role as a forerunner of both, I am convinced that bilateral relations will indeed be eventually normalized. |
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As a forerunner of this development, cablecom is continually adding new functionalities to their service, in order to make watching television an experience and to offer additional flexibility to consumers. |
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Turkey will continue to serve as a forerunner for regional development projects, and will work to make these processes even more effective by encouraging greater interaction and closer coordination. |
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The hypocaust was an invention which improved the hygiene and living conditions of citizens, and was a forerunner of modern central heating. |
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English thought advanced towards modern science with the Baconian Method, a forerunner of the Scientific Method. |
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The library still exists and can justifiably claim to be the forerunner of later public library systems. |
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Ravenstein founded the National Olympian Association in Liverpool, a forerunner of the British Olympic Association. |
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Bell also built the forerunner to the iron lung and experimented with breeding sheep. |
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It was an important forerunner of pirate radio and modern commercial radio in the United Kingdom. |
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The smoothbore matchlock arquebus is considered the forerunner to the rifle and other long gun firearms. |
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Starting in the 17th century, the larger towns in New England opened grammar schools, the forerunner of the modern high school. |
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Samuel Willard treated smallpox victims, was a forerunner of modern psychiatry, and ran the first hospital for mental illness in America. |
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Sluice valves, the medieval forerunner of stop valves, were installed and to avoid tampering were protected within brick housings called tamkins. |
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Melchior is the forerunner of the aunt who always gave me socks. |
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The forerunner of the United Nations, The League of Nations, was founded in 1919, after the end of the First World War. |
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The organization started by Norquist is a forerunner to the Tea Party. |
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David Hughes' telegraph was internationally used until the 1930s, and his microphone is the forerunner of all the carbon microphones now in use. |
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But sadly, it wouldn't surprise me if Meulensteen was a stalking horse whose appointment is the forerunner to Jol leaving. |
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Many geologists and seismologists believe that the main shock in the 1992 sequence may be a forerunner of a much more powerful earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. |
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His contemporary, Swedish novelist and playwright August Strindberg, was a forerunner of experimental forms such as expressionism, symbolism and surrealism. |
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Jones is often thought of as the forerunner of Methodist ideas in Wales. |
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Poley went on to earn 18 US patents, among which were the push-button radio for automobiles and the video disc, a forerunner of today's DVD player. |
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Initially the ground was the home of the Holbeck Rugby Club, which played in the Northern Rugby Union, the forerunner of the Rugby Football League. |
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His legal changes are generally considered to have laid the basis for English Common Law, with the Exchequer court a forerunner of the later Common Bench at Westminster. |
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Above is a ferrotype of Lincoln, a forerunner of today's campaign buttons. |
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