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Banks excelled at such practices during the 1980 s Latin American debt crisis, a forerunner of the current subprime crisis.
In Norway the public broadcaster is a forerunner in blurring the borders between traditional broadcast media and mobile media.
Britain extracted a mandate to run it from the League of Nations, forerunner of the United Nations.
The Prince Consort essay shown here can be regarded as the forerunner of later Victorian stamps.
An expert on his nakers might well be accomplished on other instruments, like the symphony, a forerunner of the hurdy-gurdy.
The Shinkansen was a forerunner of high-speed railways throughout the world.
The Whitbread was first run in 1957 and was the forerunner of all modern-day sponsorships.
It was an unguided ballistic missile and the forerunner of today's intercontinental ballistic missiles and tactical ballistic missiles.
The forerunner of today's thrill-filled white knuckle rides has been putting people in York in a spin.
Was it perhaps a warning about female intemperance, an early forerunner of Mother's Ruin?
In 1816, the forerunner of the modern stethoscope came to be discovered in France.
Mr Freeman said some people were opposed to anything they saw as a forerunner of development.
Is this a forerunner of what to expect when the Germany Beck development of up to 700 homes is complete?
The initiative was perhaps the forerunner of today's hospitality boxes, although with a slight difference.
This was the forerunner of the caduceus, the snake-entwined rod which is today the emblem of the medical profession.
This was an early forerunner of the programmes developed some twenty years later for mainstreaming disabled children.
It was generally a parody or skit on more serious opera, a forerunner of the satirical revue.
Roy's hard-boiled man with a softer side is the forerunner of characters like Sam Spade, and the beginning of film-noir.
The suburb is more of an ad hoc social development, a forerunner of the gated community, built around the principle of exclusion.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
For the history of the clavicytherium considered as a forerunner of the pianoforte see Pianoforte.
Mine own forerunner am I among this people, mine own cockcrow in dark lanes.
Another gleam of light, bluer and more penetrating than its forerunner, lit the brown rafters of the cabane.
That blow was a sort of Palo Alto affair to him, and was the forerunner of many similar successes.
Though logically the outcome of Hasidism, in practice Tzaddikism was in many cases its forerunner.
It was the forerunner of the Hepplewhite and Sheraton sideboards that we know so well.
It has even been doubted whether the serventois is not the forerunner of the sirvente instead of the reverse being the case.
One form, called the casula, is of interest to us because it is the forerunner of the chasuble.
He was a sort of stormy petrel in the town, a forerunner of danger and despair.
For simplicity, attention will be confined to the London dialect, as the forerunner of modern Standard English.
He was the forerunner of Lyell and of the uniformitarian school of geologists.
Beowulf is the forerunner of that other national dragon-slayer, St. George.
A rival to the Ammonite appeared in the Triassic seas, a formidable forerunner of the cuttle-fish type of cephalopod.
While I bring but words to my love, they be the forerunner of deeds, I hope, that will give her back to me forever.
Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and sometimes its awakener.
To them will he be pioneer or imitator, forerunner or continuator?
Startled, the people wondered was this enactment the forerunner of war.
Like his forerunner he leapt on the back of the hindmost sheep.
Nullification, the forerunner of disunion, rose from a question of tariff.
The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence.
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