| They were the forerunners of the poets and political activists of African-American culture. |
| And V-weapons were the forerunners of many later developments in weapons and space technology. |
| The picaresque novels of the seventeenth century can count as forerunners as well. |
| Bacteriology, and its forerunners from the 1840s, also had an effect on ideas of universalised and specific disease causation. |
| Oshiro Onchi like Kandinsky were creative forerunners of expressionism and abstract art. |
| The books, like their women's-mag forerunners, are a string of outrageous confessionals from women in the grips of dating crises. |
