| The laws of the Salian Franks are considered a part of the Germanic Codes that predated Roman Law in Europe. |
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| In English, the roots of many words can be found in Latin and Greek and in the language that most likely predated them, called Indo-European. |
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| While there were four-wheel-drive vehicles that predated the military Jeep, they were mostly highly specialized trucks and pickups. |
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| The first woman rabbi predated the entry of women into the priesthood by seventeen years and after a similar struggle for recognition. |
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| Eggs and hatchlings are predated by members of every class of vertebrates and numerous invertebrates. |
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| Accordingly some aspects of domestic rectitude predated the cult of domesticity. |
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| His newspaper contributions predated his novels by over two decades, as he looked to supplement his income as a civil servant. |
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| The main thing I had going for me was almost instant acceptance by other women as one of them that actually predated my transition. |
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| Sometimes predated nests were found with holes in the bottom part of the nest, which is typical for predation by house rats, Rattus rattus. |
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| The growth of acquisitive crime predated the spread of heroin use, but eventually these trends became interconnected and fueled each other. |
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| But he was also stoking a sense of grievance among the police that predated the first brick thrown last weekend. |
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| Much of the research based on law-enforcement cases involving Internet-related child exploitation predated the rise of social networks. |
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| The wider musical climate was defined by the gaudiness of psychedelia, but the music they put to tape tapped somehow into an America that predated rock by at least a century. |
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| It is also historical materialism, which far predated postmodernism in understanding that human affairs were matters of cutting, pasting, and recombining. |
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| The Island's Norse settlement was predated by the Celts, evidence for which comes in the form of archaeological remains of roundhouses and hill forts. |
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| He shows convincingly, for instance, that European price rises in the 16th century predated the inflow of gold from the Americas. |
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| Its fame and wealth predated the 1855 classification of Bordeaux wines, but it was placed alongside the other first class growths in that classification. |
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| Volcanic pistols used ammunition that predated metal-cased cartridges, basically little rockets that were relative ineffective projectiles. |
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| By 1878, electric lights called arc lights, which predated Edison's incandescent bulb and which burned about 300 times brighter, lit London and Paris streets. |
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| Our old bed is soooo old it predated memory foam, built-in mattress pads, and all sorts of other features we were quickly schooled in at the bed store. |
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| Girls whose autistic traits predated their anorexia face a harder task, even supposing they conquer the eating disorder. |
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| Many of the participating families' experiences predated recent popular centralized intake efforts in the study regions. |
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| Extensive mapping of the Y chromosome in the tammar wallaby had shown that the origin of the Y predated the divergence of marsupials from eutherian mammals. |
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| As you are probably aware, the Mexican maquiladora program predated NAFTA by almost 30 years. |
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| While her medical problems predated the events relevant to the complaint of discrimination, the Tribunal found that her condition had been aggravated by the conduct of the respondent. |
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| Payments were made for claims of expenditures that predated the Contribution Agreement coming into force on September 1, 2005, and there is no indication this was authorized in advance under the terms and conditions. |
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| Naming infrastructural installations after characters from the periods of Greek history which predated the arrival of the Slavs in those regions is not conducive to good neighbourly relations. |
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| Indeed, the approach to dealing with identity theft in Canada has been on a piecemeal basis and certainly, for the most part, has predated the 21st century technologies which are now available to criminals. |
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| Because the Code's provision seemed to be patterned after a Canadian statute applicable to both Lower Canada and Upper Canada that predated 1866, the Court held that the rule had to have uniform application. |
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| The Kingdom of Mercia predated the emergence of heraldry, so there is no authentic Mercian heraldic device. |
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| The source of the claim is unknown, but may have predated both Henry and Geoffrey. |
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| Landowners such as the Earl of Kildare could claim a continuous title that just predated the Lordship itself. |
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| These active hurricane seasons predated satellite coverage of the Atlantic basin. |
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| Worsaae, who argued that the body was Iron Age in origin, like most bog bodies, and predated any historical persons by at least 500 years. |
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| In the late 17th century, the three villages that predated Calcutta were ruled by the Nawab of Bengal under Mughal suzerainty. |
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| The city was home to elite members of the Wari Empire from AD 600-1000, an empire which predated the Inca by at least four centuries. |
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| In Huus the court held that the status of a partial wind up request which predated an asset transfer should have been resolved before the asset transfer was approved by the Superintendent. |
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| It not only predated the New Deal, but determined its shape. |
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| Firstly, there was no convenient means of operating the line as single track as the line predated the telegraph. |
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| The economic recoveries of France, Italy, and Belgium, Cowen found, also predated the flow of US aid. |
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| Given the little attention of the political authorities, the region was very predated by foreigners, mainly Argentines. |
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| It was one of the largest investigations by a British police force and predated the use of computers. |
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| It was a peaceful and prosperous era, a time of expansion and optimism that corresponded to a worldwide economic upturn and predated inklings of war. |
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| For example, IBM's 1964-model Selectric typewriter with a magnetic tape drive predated bit-mapped graphics and had only modest formatting capabilities. |
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| Atkinson's records suggested that the Q and R Holes predated the sarsen circle and trilithons, but Darvill and Wainwright's excavation in 2008 cast doubt on this stratigraphic relationship. |
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| I took a few whacks at Super Mario, when it came out, in the mid-eighties, but mostly my video-game experience predated the Nintendo invasion and the unabating craze for home systems. |
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| Star Trek communicators predated mobile phones by a good 20 years, while bionic limbs, video calling, touchscreen technology and CCTV were all predicted with eerie accuracy in the Mystic Meggian annals of sci-fi. |
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| Heinlein's description long predated the telepresence gadgets now common in high-radiation environments, on research submarines, and aboard the Space Shuttle. |
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| Shipping whale tooth ivory into or out of the United States has been illegal for about 30 years, he said, and plenty of antique ivory that predated the prohibition remains available to scrimshanders. |
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| Its marriage of painting and photography coincided with that of Andy Warhol's silk screens, and it predated Gerhard Richter's blurred photorealism. |
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| He was active in the incorporation of Santa Clarita as a city and served on a citizen transportation committee that predated cityhood. |
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| His playing days predated the professional era in Trinidadian football, but that didn't keep him from lining up 119 times for the full national team between 1955 and 1969, a span in which he scored no fewer than 69 goals. |
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| The house fire, too, predated Carole's birth. |
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| If you're on the perimeter, you're more likely to be predated. |
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| Never mind that Labour's decline in Scotland long predated Mr Murphy and was all but irreversible, in Mr McCluskey's view, Mr Murphy had kept Mr Miliband out of Downing Street. |
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| It was in this context that the B. C. government began to participate in the Nisga'a negotiations although these predated and took place outside this process. |
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| The peaceful use of nuclear energy was a right which predated the Treaty. |
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| Because it predated the CSIS Act, it employed tests, procedures, and legal terminology not found in the CSIS Act the founding legislation for the new Service that had to use it. |
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| Had his low blood count predated this new illness? |
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| On 24 June, the general prosecutor of Northern State issued a public information ban on the work of the Kajbar investigation committee and the events that predated the incident. |
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| Matthew Sayers, on the other hand, pours cold water on the received wisdom that the Brahmanical association with the region predated the life of the Buddha. |
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| The oldest tale we found was an Aesopic fable that dated from about the sixth century BC, so the last common ancestor of all these tales certainly predated this. |
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| Many older toll roads were added to the Interstate System under a grandfather clause that allowed tolls to continue to be collected on toll roads that predated the system. |
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| This may have been the earliest known occurrence of the idea of an explicit zero worldwide, although it may have been predated by the Babylonian system. |
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| The name was first used in 1885 by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess for an episode of mountain building in northern Europe that predated the Devonian period. |
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| Two other plays of the Elizabethan era predated Shakespeare's work. |
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| This case predated the statute on nonjoinder of insurers but this result could still occur with nonjoinder, if the insurer pays and stops defending. |
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