| Banks excelled at such practices during the 1980 s Latin American debt crisis, a forerunner of the current subprime crisis. |
| Was it perhaps a warning about female intemperance, an early forerunner of Mother's Ruin? |
| This was an early forerunner of the programmes developed some twenty years later for mainstreaming disabled children. |
| The Prince Consort essay shown here can be regarded as the forerunner of later Victorian stamps. |
| The suburb is more of an ad hoc social development, a forerunner of the gated community, built around the principle of exclusion. |
| Roy's hard-boiled man with a softer side is the forerunner of characters like Sam Spade, and the beginning of film-noir. |
