But, like its predecessors, it has an ability to make itself heard above the din of the crowded media marketplace. |
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It's an expression of excitement which his predecessors doubtless shared, but rarely expressed quite so fully. |
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But, with the creation of the deep sea diving suit, man can go deeper than his predecessors. |
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Today's new minority entrepreneurs are not just more numerous but also more sophisticated than their predecessors. |
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Rhetoric aside, his policies were hardly distinguishable from those of his predecessors. |
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These two features distinguish De Villepin's sell-offs from their predecessors. |
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An ambition to succeed and surpass one's predecessors is the driving force behind the emulative impulse of repetition as paragone. |
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And while this particular statement may lack the torturous semantics of its predecessors, it still adds up to in-your-face guff. |
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Bolanos said his two predecessors had motivated the legislature to impeach him because he would not allow them to embezzle government money. |
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Let's hope that the remaining garden shows go all out to beat their predecessors in culinary skill if not theatrical prowess. |
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By the age of 3 the deciduous teeth are fully formed and by the age of 6 the first permanent teeth appear by displacing their predecessors. |
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In careerist terms, the war gave the army's generals the victories that had eluded their predecessors 30 years previously. |
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The Life of Pi seems to have as many literary predecessors as India has religions. |
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In this context, such systems will inevitably replace their paper based predecessors. |
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Very few composers in this period have wasted time in crowing over the internal contradictions of their predecessors. |
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Just over three years ago, one of Father Marvin's predecessors was assaulted by a woman demanding money. |
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Unlike the majority of their predecessors, the officials were on the whole rather fair. |
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However, the manner in which his predecessors vacated the manager's office has left a bitter taste in some quarters. |
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Harrigan's predecessors helped establish corporate governance as a force for change. |
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If they are as harsh in judging us as we are in judging our predecessors, then we will certainly be condemned. |
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Electronic hearing aids are active, but their predecessors, ear trumpets, were passive. |
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The new fuzes are easier to operate and more accurate and reliable than their predecessors. |
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These boats also incorporate the large aft engine rooms and the isolated forepeaks of their predecessors. |
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Moreover, although the unions are unhappy and still potent, their power is less than his Labour predecessors endured 20 and 30 years ago. |
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He could have fobbed it off on the next parliament as so many of his predecessors had done. |
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The subjects of his art are pop culture, not the fleshy Renaissance portraits of his predecessors. |
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And, the work, of course, of Brahms, particularly his later work, as the great continuer of the study of his predecessors. |
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The Celts and their predecessors had put up edifices such as stone circles, calms and assorted burial constructions near sacred wells. |
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Percussion pistols came in all shapes and sizes and, like their firelock predecessors, included large and small caliber, smooth and rifled bore. |
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Like their persecuting predecessors, they mistakenly believed that consciences could be forced in ceremonial and other inessential matters. |
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His record as Education Secretary and Home Secretary stands comparison with any of his predecessors. |
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But the Pakistani president is no more able than his predecessors to solve the country's underlying ethnic and communal tensions. |
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Whenever Sri Krishna desires to manifest His incarnation on earth, first He creates the incarnations of His respectable predecessors. |
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I know it is fashionable to say that our predecessors never tried to settle anything. |
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Her playful tone echoes these predecessors, but with a coyness that seems distinctly feminine. |
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We read poems by our predecessors to imbibe the experience of life as captured by them. |
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Another theory is that the Tibetan Spaniel was bred with the Pekingese to create predecessors of the Shih Tzu. |
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Boucher's pictures are festooned with swags of cupidons instead of the fruit and flowers of his decorative predecessors such as Jan Brueghel. |
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Despite superficial resemblances to their medieval predecessors, these Lutheran altarpieces share a number of striking new features. |
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Even the form of Hammurabi's code is identical to its Sumerian predecessors. |
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My three predecessors and my three successors will all agree that I was the best. |
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Stalin had to rehabilitate his predecessors to make his style appear progressive. |
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Like its predecessors, the third volume of Richard Hickox's survey of Bridge's orchestral music mixes early and late works. |
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Like her medieval predecessors, she received the stigmata, the mark of Christ's wounds. |
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It's difficult not to be really impressed with a product that is so improved over its predecessors it obsoletes them. |
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Wade is only one season into his tour of duty, but he is stacking up well in comparison to his predecessors. |
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The predecessors of little floral cachous were used by court ladies as breath-fresheners. |
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Armed with enormous talent and intelligence, Kasparov reigned supreme over the board of 64 squares like none of his great predecessors. |
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Today's programmers are still writing code the same way their predecessors did, using the same languages. |
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The Qianlong Emperor surpassed his predecessors as a patron of Buddhism and Buddhist art. |
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Like its predecessors, the album arrives just in time for Spring and comes bearing more than a few certifiable vernal jams. |
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These new northern pilgrims are less snooty than their colonising predecessors. |
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Compared to their predecessors, these furniture makers were often unschooled in the art of cabinetmaking. |
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Like these literary predecessors, Fred Daniels confronts reason and unreason, rationality and sensuality, society and nature. |
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One bright spot is simply that hard-core rap has knocked out such unmusical predecessors as heavy metal and punk. |
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Machiavelli drew a similar contrast between himself and his predecessors, although he, unlike Sophocles and Raphael, added a value judgment. |
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Fourth, the Bush administration, unlike several of its predecessors, sees no contradiction between power and principles. |
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The Queen has unfalteringly upheld the standards that she inherited from her father and the best of his predecessors. |
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His performances were unexcelled either by his predecessors or his successors. |
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As life expectancies increase and we become more healthy in old age, sexagenarians may well want to do things undreamed of by their predecessors. |
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He, therefore, knew very well that his body would be mummified like those of his predecessors whose royal relics he had looked after. |
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The leaders find themselves in more trouble than their predecessors faced over much more blatant war lies. |
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He is frank about what he sees as the shortcomings of his great predecessors. |
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Like its predecessors, this bill is misnamed as it will not result in the final settlement of claims. |
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The treads give added mobility over predecessors with conventional wheels, allowing it to travel over thick carpet. |
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Like his predecessors, Lt Patrick Ryan caught his dolphins between his teeth from the bottom of the glass as he knocked back a tot of rum. |
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Many are being converted into offices and workshops for small or medium-sized enterprises so beloved of this government, and it's predecessors. |
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The Aztecs, for example, admired and collected the art of their predecessors, the Toltecs and Olmecs. |
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Their predecessors were also inspired by the work of self-taught artists but did not often acknowledge their influence. |
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Our immediate predecessors saw them in their untamed state, in the vigor of their power, and the pride of their independence. |
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Whether this is the right place for his scholarly discussion of the influence of Seleucid predecessors on Agrippa's temple is debatable. |
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But it lacks the meaty substance of its predecessors, and feels too fluffy, light, and simplistic to truly work. |
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Prior to the 1790s farmers in Europe and America threshed their wheat much the same as their predecessors had done since Biblical times. |
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However, in each of the postseason matchups, his team rallied from behind to win, the exact opposite of their playoff predecessors. |
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Your predecessors of the Business Roundtable regularly asserted a balanced philosophy of corporate responsibility. |
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Fortunately, our technophilic predecessors have already been there and done that. |
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Not quite as slammed together as it's predecessors, '92's El Mariachi and '95's Desperado, but still majorly fun. |
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Like its predecessors, Killing Time opens with a hard-boiled New York-based psychologist hunting down a madman. |
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Despite their relatively lowly beginnings, however, all have even greater power than their predecessors. |
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The text as it stands unquestionably lacks many of the qualities that make its predecessors so great. |
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They were more excessive, more arrogant, more abusive than any of their predecessors. |
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Unlike her predecessors, Ms D scrubbed for only one surgical procedure, an appendectomy, the entire time she was in Vietnam. |
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Although resolutely cheerful in his reworking of genres, he retains traces of the anxiety and high-minded intent of his predecessors. |
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In other recorded examples the music most closely approaches early predecessors of reggae and zouk. |
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They avoid open repudiations of their predecessors, no matter how demagogic. |
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In many cases, individuals within the strike group must relearn lessons their predecessors learned in the previous deployment cycle. |
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Each stage along the way has extended and corrected the achievements of its predecessors. |
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One of the first new episodes for the series relaunch does not fit the style or stylings of its predecessors. |
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Yes, he's doctrinally more fluid than his predecessors, but he's recognizably of the same type. |
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He is a policy wonk to his core, more well-read in policy ideas than almost any of his colleagues or predecessors. |
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If I could snag his e-mail addy I could ask him which of his predecessors were British. |
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Some of these individuals might be at an advantage over their predecessors, because they might be more able to adapt to new conditions. |
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His performance skills are less obtrusive than those of his actorly predecessors simply because we are already familiar with the style. |
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After all, what guarantees do we have that a new popularly elected president will be more democratic than Mubarak or any of his predecessors of the First Republic? |
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Yet Page can justifiably point an accusing finger at his peers and predecessors. |
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He has to contend with much more conservative bishops, archbishops, and cardinals appointed by his two immediate predecessors. |
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Puck artists, like their predecessors, combined picture-making skills with a caricatural precision and a knack for lethal symbols. |
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Unlike his predecessors and most Lutheran clergy, Hanson earned his first divinity degree at a non-Lutheran institution, Union Theological Seminary in New York. |
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Our predecessors of a century ago or in the midst of the Second World War would be astounded at how acquiescent our policy-makers are about this prospect. |
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Mr Rahael has fared better to date than several of his predecessors at handling the Health Ministry, one of the most difficult and certainly most crisis-prone ministries. |
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He evokes the lyric and neo-Romantic impulses his great predecessors found in the music, at the same time commenting on those responses wryly yet lovingly. |
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Like his predecessors, Thein Sein was a career army officer, but unlike many others, it was said, he was scrupulously honest. |
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The potential new species strides ahead up the fitness curve, leaving its more poorly-adapted predecessors languishing behind, to the point when they are driven to extinction. |
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Horace, on the other hand, can be said to represent the more innovative vein of Latin poetry, a vein that looked towards the Alexandrian poets as models and predecessors. |
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They acknowledged the achievements of their predecessors and colleagues in the articulation of objects with no representational agenda, viewed as things in themselves. |
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Ambler spent a fair bit of time outside England, especially in Paris, which may help explain why his writing escapes the Anglocentric worldview of his predecessors. |
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The system was supposed to replace the box-ticking, legalistic approach that dogged predecessors with a more flexible approach based on high-level principles. |
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Delegation was essential in so unwieldy an entity, and, like his predecessors, Augustus appointed senatorial legates and equestrian prefects to serve his imperium. |
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Yet by and large, today's Shiite clerics in Iraq view the revolutionism of their predecessors as outdated, and few yearn to implement those designs in Iraq. |
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Disappointingly, even though you can at times detect a family likeness to its genius predecessors, The IT Crowd's opening gambit suggests it could be the runt of the litter. |
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The new works are spindlier than their predecessors and combine the pieces of rock and branch in unlikely ways, rather then following a naturalistic schema. |
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By emphasizing this resistance and the equivocal devices of Homer's archetypal wanderer, Walcott is delineating latent virtues in predecessors of his Creole protagonist. |
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Unlike some of his predecessors, he never seems lofty or arrogant. |
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Like its fellow vintage guru predecessors, the record swells with analog warmth, mediating each instrument through its raw, rough hewn reel-to-reel median. |
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So was the importance of protest itself, which he vowed to protect from the heavy-handed policies employed by his predecessors. |
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His predecessors ruled Parsumash, a vassal state of the Median empire. |
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His predecessors have almost all died of natural causes, leaving their legacies for others to shape. |
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In all fairness, there have been a few bellwether albums to emerge from the scene that will no doubt achieve longevity and reiterate the importance of their predecessors. |
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Cook and his teammates, like most high major college football players, eat much healthier foods than their predecessors. |
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This was the most intricate painting of the show, as well as the most recent, and its development could be traced in the predecessors that hung around it. |
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Terraciano has a number of distinguished predecessors, among them Ronald Spores, who threw light on many aspects of prehispanic, colonial, and modern Mixtec affairs. |
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His most recent films, execrable turkeys have achieved the seemingly impossible by being even crasser and less watchable than their dismal predecessors. |
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By his selections and approach, he has shown that he is determined to find a way through the racial morass that has bedevilled most of his predecessors. |
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My predecessors did a great job, and I am hoping to continue to do so. |
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However, my speech would ungraciously make little reference to where the true credit lay, and, when I unveiled the plaque, it bore my name and not my predecessors. |
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And Novak too, like many of his predecessors, likes to emphasise the importance of language and literature, especially poetry, for the Slovene nation. |
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Unfortunately, I am not responsible for the failings of my predecessors, who set up the supply systems and who were as unrighteous as I am righteous. |
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The latest two volumes of this exciting series continue the tradition of scholarly and typographical excellence established by their predecessors. |
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His team is replete with loyalists in the White House, and senior cabinet officers who lack the clout of their predecessors. |
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The broadly uniform system of parliamentary representation belied the administrative complexities inherited by the Hanoverian monarchy from its predecessors. |
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George was, most now agreed, a Good Thing who was determined to be different to his culturally undistinguished and intellectually challenged Hanoverian predecessors. |
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Had he succeeded he would have outclassed one of his predecessors, who was famously described as incapable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. |
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Although this would-be seventh province need not share all of Border with its predecessors, it would be sure to share a certain subregion of Border with each of the others. |
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Like their predecessors, the Himyarites used the nomadic Arabs as auxiliaries in their armies, Robin adds, particularly from the 3rd century AD onwards. |
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He stands to guide me to the door, then stops to point out a photo of himself looking somewhat starstruck and goofy-grinned beside four hoary men, his mayoral predecessors. |
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Perfumery is one of the earliest crafts, and the basic techniques of today's perfumers are essentially the same as those of their Egyptian predecessors 4000 years ago. |
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Over the last few years, interest in literary predecessors has justifiably fallen into disfavor among comparatists for being Eurocentric and essentialist. |
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It is competently made, but lacks the heart and brains of its predecessors, so I can only recommend it for die-hard Asian horror nuts and completists. |
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His music tends not to be based on plainsong chants, where many of his predecessors would probably have used the chant melodies as the basis of the polyphonic compositions. |
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We know more about the Incas than their Andean predecessors because of their fateful contact with the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century. |
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Perhaps new forms of political community which are more respectful of cultural differences and more cosmopolitan than their predecessors will emerge in consequence. |
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Thus a tradition died, and thus the Masters and Wardens of today rejoice in a happy immunity, all unknowing of the danger their predecessors forfended. |
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It will be a vicious irony if a far-right Home Secretary is allowed to take the curtain call for the onstage achievements of predecessors who loathe his approach. |
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Our predecessors, as journalists and readers, were far less squeamish. |
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As such, she may be given the second chance denied to her predecessors. |
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I also found out that my female predecessors were of pioneering stock. |
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If the railways marked the difference between Georgian and Victorian cities then the car has surely differentiated post-Victorian cities from their predecessors. |
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The quartet showed greater musical range than their predecessors, with songs ranging from barbiturate-induced hallucinations to upbeat, jazzy grooves. |
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For Dee, as for many of his contemporaries and medieval predecessors, the natural world was growing increasingly corrupt as the end times approached. |
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Trilobites in the Ordovician were very different from their predecessors in the Cambrian. |
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Musacchio notes a number of differences between today's state capitalism and its predecessors. |
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These Corliss valves were more efficient and more reliable than their predecessors. |
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Its advantage lay in the fact that it didn't require the use of a mechanical regulator like its predecessors. |
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He synthesised the methods of his predecessors, as described in his eponymous work, the Han Feizi. |
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The new standing army had a more disciplined and professional approach to warfare than its predecessors. |
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Coincidentally both Stewart Grand Prix and Jaguar Racing, the team's predecessors, also scored their maiden podiums at that race. |
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Red Bull's first year in Formula One was a massive success compared to their predecessors, Jaguar Racing. |
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Elland Road was previously occupied by their predecessors, Leeds City before their disbanding. |
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In a stage version of the book, Asriel had previously been played by Timothy Dalton, one of Craig's predecessors in the role of James Bond. |
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West proved far harsher and more belligerent toward the Indians than any of his predecessors, engaging in wars of conquest against them. |
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Following the policy of his predecessors, Francis continued the Italian Wars. |
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Motecuzoma II spent most of his reign consolidating power in lands conquered by his predecessors. |
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Ralph's authority seems also to have been less than his predecessors in the earldom, and this was likely the cause of the revolt. |
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In his scenes of decline and madness towards the end of the play some critics found him less moving than his finest predecessors in the role. |
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The notices were laudatory, mentioning him alongside great predecessors such as Edmund Kean, William Macready and Henry Irving. |
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The origins of portolan charts are obscure, having no known predecessors despite their accuracy compared to other maps of the period. |
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Like their predecessors, the Omani Arabs were primarily able only to control the coastal areas, not the interior. |
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They drew upon the techniques, styles, and complexity in painting achieved by their Song and Yuan predecessors, but added techniques and styles. |
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These would become the predecessors of today's Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet School. |
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Elgar's distinctive orchestration, as well as his melodic inspiration, lifts them to a higher level than most of their British predecessors. |
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Alexander buried Darius' remains next to his Achaemenid predecessors in a regal funeral. |
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Most egregiously, Krrish shamelessly steals from its predecessors. |
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But there is a wide difference between the isolated permutations described by his predecessors and his own comprehensive generalizations. |
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It was a didactic grammar based on printed and manuscript materials accumulated by his predecessors in the same field of research. |
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At the age of nearly 77, he had lived longer than any of his English or British predecessors. |
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Like several of his predecessors, Gervinus thought that this work should be read as a text and not acted on stage. |
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Building on the foundations of his predecessors, he created the most centralised government that England had yet seen. |
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He speaks in Gaelic on set, which he says is one of many differences from predecessors like 90s Gaelic soap Machair. |
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They are traditionally appointed by their predecessors, in an unbroken teaching lineage reaching back to Muhammad. |
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Holbein's frescoes of Rehoboam and of the meeting between Saul and Samuel were more simply designed than their predecessors. |
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As an 18-year-old in 2015, I can say with confidence that we are far more self-aware than our predecessors. |
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Charles I was a connoisseur of art, and paid greater attention to the aesthetic aspects of Windsor Castle than his predecessors. |
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During this time territories began to transform into the predecessors of modern states. |
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He was the younger brother of Titus and son of Vespasian, his two predecessors on the throne, and the last member of the Flavian dynasty. |
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Gregory is also well known for his writings, which were more prolific than those of any of his predecessors as pope. |
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It later became a meeting place of the King's Great Council and the Commons, predecessors of Parliament. |
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Snappier than its predecessors and living-dead proof that wedding videos are always a nightmare. |
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Like his predecessors, his background was as a javelin thrower. |
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As she could not succeed to the throne of Hanover, her arms did not carry the Hanoverian symbols that were used by her immediate predecessors. |
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Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian era and was longer than that of any of her predecessors. |
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Today's computers are much faster than their predecessors were. |
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Natural fissures were popularly regarded as entrances to the subterranean house of Hades and his predecessors, home of the dead. |
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The 720 has the same unibody design as its predecessors and Nokia is targeting trendier and younger crowd. |
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Herodotus claims to be better informed than his predecessors by relying on empirical observation to correct their excessive schematism. |
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His predecessors include Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. |
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As king, Edgar further consolidated the political unity achieved by his predecessors, with his reign being noted for its relative stability. |
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Unlike his predecessors, Constantine neglected to make the trip to the Capitoline Hill and perform customary sacrifices at the Temple of Jupiter. |
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He is credited with having a less formal approach to the papacy than his predecessors. |
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They patronized their own school of Hindu art taking inspiration from their predecessors. |
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The British Maunsell Forts constructed during World War II are considered the direct predecessors of modern offshore platforms. |
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Its long, graceful, menacing head figure carved in the stern, such as the Oseburg ship, echoed the designs of its predecessors. |
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His Norman followers tended to evade the liabilities of their English predecessors. |
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While they were not as impressive as their predecessors, they were still keen builders. |
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In 1852 Brunel turned to a third ship, larger than her predecessors, intended for voyages to India and Australia. |
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Facing the challenges of his predecessors, Hymer focused his theory on filling the gaps regarding international investment. |
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The rare truncheons and their even rarer predecessors, the tipstaves, pictured here, would have enthralled him. |
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He spent more time in Westminster than any of his predecessors, shaping the formation of England's capital city. |
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He thought that his predecessors had allowed the status of the Crown to decline, and sought to correct this during his reign. |
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Like many of his predecessors, Richard II conflicted with the nobles by attempting to concentrate power in his own hands. |
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Modern humans commonly have a steep, even vertical forehead whereas their predecessors had foreheads that sloped strongly backwards. |
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The album did not sell as well as its predecessors, but Garbage performed a successful world tour in support of it. |
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More than their Greek predecessors, the Romans extensively took inspiration from boarhunting in their art and sculpture. |
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The Northumbrian hegemony over Northern Britain, won by Ecgfrith's predecessors, had begun to disintegrate. |
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Personalists focused on the history of philosophy and acknowledged Leibniz as one of their predecessors. |
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Bede sometimes included in his theological books an acknowledgement of the predecessors on whose works he drew. |
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A number of notable figures have been President of the Parliament and its predecessors. |
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The totals of NOCs are not combined with those of their predecessors and successors. |
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Here, up in the clouds, the series hit even dizzier gaming heights than its two predecessors. |
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Her reign lasted for 63 years and seven months, a longer period than any of her predecessors. |
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In its own day, moreover, it was an innovation, soaring high above its very few predecessors. |
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In these three branches he explains his ideas, in addition to comparing and contrasting his views to his predecessors. |
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But it inherits all that is best from the great traditions of its predecessors. |
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At 57 years and 246 days, James's reign in Scotland was longer than those of any of his predecessors. |
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Neither he nor any of his predecessors since 1807 have pursued their claim. |
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Unlike many of his predecessors, James VI generally despised Gaelic culture. |
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Panasonic's new irrigator, model EW-DJ10-A, is more compact than its predecessors. |
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Dorothy De Val contrasts Grainger's arrangements of folk songs with the 'watered Mendelssohn' approach of his predecessors. |
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Small and slender, Richard III did not have the robust physique associated with many of his Plantagenet predecessors. |
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Membership of the EU and its predecessors has long been a topic of debate in the United Kingdom. |
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Richard, like his predecessors, had to win over these men by granting gifts and maintaining cordial relationships. |
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Unlike his predecessors, Henry VII came to the throne without personal experience in estate management or financial administration. |
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Innocent III exercised more power than any of his predecessors, or his successors. |
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He was as trenchant a critic of his successors in his old age as he had been of his predecessors in his youth. |
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Like their amphibious tetrapod predecessors, they had lungs and limbs. |
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Ceawlin's reign is thought to be more reliably documented than those of his predecessors, though the Chronicle's dates of 560 to 592 are different from the revised chronology. |
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Francis merely continued the incessant wars that his predecessors had started and that his successors on the throne of France would drag on after Francis' death. |
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There is little continuity between the current states and their predecessors of the Weimar Republic with the exception of the three free states, and Hamburg and Bremen. |
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But the lasting significance of Columbus's voyages outshone that of his Viking predecessors, because he managed to bring word of the continent back to Europe. |
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He was also forced to surrender the large number of rolls from his predecessors Martin Pateshull and William Raleigh, also known as William de Raley. |
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Between 1840 and the 1960s, Red Funnel line and its predecessors operated 40 different classic passenger ferries, many of these being paddle steamers. |
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It was decided that future British monarchs would be numbered according to either their English or their Scottish predecessors, whichever number is higher. |
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Like his predecessors, the first part of Ahuitzotl's reign was spent suppressing rebellions that were commonplace due to the indirect nature of Aztec rule. |
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The Energetiq EQ-10HP EUV Source operates at substantially higher input powers than its EQ-10 Series predecessors and delivers 20 Watts of in-band EUV into 2pi steradians. |
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The roles of bards in 10th century Wales had been established by Hywel Dda and it was during the 18th century that the idea arose that druids had been their predecessors. |
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Its standing as an economically backward agricultural region meant that it obtained support from Belgium's membership of the European Union and its predecessors. |
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He has also spoken positively of his two immediate predecessors as Labour leader, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, praising their leadership and records in government. |
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The origins of modern handbells lie in the Middle Ages, although their predecessors were two ancient instruments, the tintinnabula and cymbala, from over a millennium ago. |
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These composers, like many of their predecessors, both made arrangements of folk songs and incorporated traditional material into original classical compositions. |
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Ptolemy inherited from his Greek predecessors a geometrical toolbox and a partial set of models for predicting where the planets would appear in the sky. |
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These axes were flat and hafted much like their stone predecessors. |
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Russell notes that these errors make it difficult to do historical justice to Aristotle, until one remembers how large of an advance he made upon all of his predecessors. |
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The tradition established by these predecessors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has continued to thrive and be adapted by new authors. |
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The predecessors of the European Union were not devised as a military alliance because NATO was largely seen as appropriate and sufficient for defence purposes. |
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Wales have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 26 times outright. |
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Woodworking tools such as adzes appear in the archaeological record, although some flint blade types remained similar to their Palaeolithic predecessors. |
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Dog Park one-ups its predecessors by having two near-catatonic principals. |
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He noticed that the two ventricles move together almost simultaneously and not independently like had been thought previously by his predecessors. |
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Much of her work dwells upon the black comedy, emotional extremes and deformed outcasts favored by her German Expressionist predecessors, and it is, in fact, genuinely new. |
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This ship was arguably more revolutionary than her predecessors. |
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Just as smart and eager as their more self-disciplined predecessors, they also are more laid back, steeped in pop culture, and in many ways more sophisticated. |
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Appallingly, at nauseam it continues lilting boastfully that it has found the key to peace in dialogue that its predecessors had had so demeaningly not. |
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These ships are slightly bigger than their predecessors, with extra vehicle space, but will only accommodate 360 passengers compared to 500 on the older vessels. |
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This seat has been held by the Liberal Democrats or their predecessors the Liberal Party since 1950, longer than any other they represent in Great Britain. |
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Some research indicates that in the 21st century young people are tending to continue to live in the parental home for much longer than their predecessors. |
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He depicts the Flavians as populists and underlines Flavian messages that the new dynasty was better at aiding the Roman plebs than its predecessors. |
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Both of Robinson's predecessors, Clive Woodward and Jack Rowell, as well as his successor Brian Ashton, were also former Bath coaches and managers. |
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The latest of a venerable franchise of docu-soaps, it opens, like its predecessors, with a voiceover giving the audience the lay of the promised land. |
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Originally, Manchus, and their predecessors, were principally Shamanists. |
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George Cotton and his predecessors fished their flies with long rods, and light lines allowing the wind to do most of the work of getting the fly to the fish. |
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Siouxsie and the Banshees tended to use flanging guitar effects, producing a brittle, cold and harsh sound that contrasted with their psychedelic rock predecessors. |
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