And V-weapons were the forerunners of many later developments in weapons and space technology. |
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The Army bought some for issue to the 1st Special Service Force, forerunners of today's Green Berets. |
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Oshiro Onchi like Kandinsky were creative forerunners of expressionism and abstract art. |
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In this theory, the forerunners of wings were thoracic, highly tracheate gills that functioned as stabilizers during swimming. |
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Bacteriology, and its forerunners from the 1840s, also had an effect on ideas of universalised and specific disease causation. |
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Sackbuts are the forerunners of the modern trombone, and dulcians of the modern bassoon. |
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The picaresque novels of the seventeenth century can count as forerunners as well. |
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The forerunners of today's Thais gradually moved from what is now southern China into the area of the Mekong and Chao Phraya river basins. |
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The books, like their women's-mag forerunners, are a string of outrageous confessionals from women in the grips of dating crises. |
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Earlier forerunners rely entirely on intransitive or quasi-transitive verbs, with the object preceded by a preposition. |
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Celebrated as early-20th-century European liberals, they were, in fact, collectivists and forerunners of the totalitarian state. |
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They were the forerunners of the poets and political activists of African-American culture. |
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Immediately before the second world war the prestigious forerunners of Britain's present day teaching hospitals were financed by charitable contributions. |
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About 10,000 years ago, the forerunners of today's sheep and goats are the first animals to be domesticated by the Neolithic inhabitants of the area. |
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Should we pity a team that was one of the forerunners in the development of the slowdown, hard-nosed, tough-defending style that bored a generation? |
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These discs were specially produced for the player, and included forerunners of today's audio books, such as an adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. |
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Today I have revealed all this to the people who hear Me so that they may be the forerunners of the era of spirituality. |
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He is the baddies' baddie, and we spot images of his forerunners, from the previous three films, on a Moroccan wall. |
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The earliest military museums were arsenals, but since many of these have since become famous military museums it is expedient to regard them as the forerunners of the genre. |
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Latecomers to industrialisation can follow the path their forerunners broke before them and perhaps skip some steps along the way. |
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He compares plutocracy in modern America to its forerunners in 17th-century Holland and 19th-century Britain. |
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Muybridge's motion studies can be fairly credited as the forerunners of the cinema. |
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The Robinson Treaties were the forerunners for all treaties for the next century. |
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The sun was shining and the first forerunners were already on their way down as the timekeepers carried out their final tests. |
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During the early part of the 17th century, Japan's shogunate suspected that the traders and missionaries were actually forerunners of a military conquest by European powers. |
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These became known as Bow Street Runners and are the forerunners of the police force which was not formed until the early part of the 19th Century. |
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It frequently happens that God, prior to doing a great work of revival and renewal among a community of his people, raises up forerunners and heralds of the work. |
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I tell myself: but then we should really be forerunners, so much in advance on our time. |
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They are designed to limit the negative impact of intensive agriculture on many European landscapes, and have in a way been forerunners of the principles of the Gothenburg strategy. |
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The pipelines are also the forerunners of all flexible pipes used in the development of offshore oil fields. |
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These changes have resulted in quite significant upheavals to justify numerous adjustments to the mandate of the CRTC, or that of its forerunners, and various legislative amendments. |
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A There are most definitely forerunners of this new consciousness. |
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These early agencies are the forerunners of today's supermarket branches and the beginning of Royal Bank's long established philosophy of reaching out to meet the banking needs of its customers. |
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Whether it's access to corporate data or the latest craze in mobile entertainment, we want to fund companies that are forerunners in driving adoption and further enriching the mobile experience. |
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Although Wieland's novels were forerunners of the bildungsroman, they missed the temper of the time in Germany by placing their protagonists in a fictitious Spain or ancient Greece rather than in 18th-century Germany. |
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These initiatives provided a base upon which the Strategy was to build, making it difficult to isolate the effects of the CCFLS from the effects of its forerunners. |
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The successful implementation of electronic voting for 23,000 agents during the unions elections and the extranet service portal are the forerunners of the changes to come at the Human Resources Department. |
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The alliance then sat back and waited to see what sort of results the forerunners came up with. |
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Canada stands on firm ground as one of the forerunners in this area. |
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Nevertheless, the upper limits for bilateral debt conversion set by the Paris Club are far from being reached, even by forerunners like Germany and Spain. |
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Those transfers are the forerunners to the WTO and the new world order. |
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The PNDPs fulfilled a double role of being the key steering documents for programming ESC while at the same time being the forerunners of Structural Funds Development Plans. |
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Thus improved technology and transportation were forerunners to the Great Merger Movement. |
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These belong either to the lemurlike adapids, the tarsierlike omomyids, or the early simians, forerunners of monkeys, apes, and humans. |
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Indeed, it would be surprising if these violin sonatas, as close forerunners of Mozart's six 'Haydn' string quartets, did not occasionally yield invention of high sublimity. |
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It's a far cry from the days back when our ancient Greek forerunners would run, jump and throw in the nude, although the attention to athletic physiques still remains. |
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The Tribunals have been forerunners and groundbreakers in their development of case law and jurisprudence, making invaluable contributions to international humanitarian law and international criminal law. |
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Were the jatis, forerunners of the present-day ragas, rendered only during theatrical performances, or were they concertized widely? |
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Wightlink and its forerunners have provided ferry services to and from the Isle of Wight for more than 160 years. |
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One remarkable conjecture concerns viral genes that became embedded in the genomes of the forerunners of mammals. |
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He was an insatiable adopter and adapter, an incomparable prestidigitator with the thoughts of the forerunners. |
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Since late morning on Wednesday, the forerunners of the fleet, all classes included, have had to contend with a meteorological brain-teaser that is forcing each of them to keep reviewing their strategies. |
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It was then that Kennedy secured his position as one of the forerunners in Toronto's culinary scene and established Scaramouche as the uptown institution it is today. |
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Cymmer and Ynysfach chapel would be the forerunners in a new religious movement in the valley for the next 150 years. |
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These early plants are the forerunners of all plant life on land. |
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The forerunners of today's state of Lower Saxony were lands that were geographically and, to some extent, institutionally interrelated from very early on. |
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Then at the beginning of the 18th century, French prose translations brought Homer's works to a wider public, who accepted them as forerunners of the novel. |
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Like the fearful tokens of the plague, Are mere forerunners of their ends. |
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The burhs are forerunners of the defensive network successfully implemented by Alfred the Great a century later to deal with the Danish invasions. |
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