Sentences with phrase «early predecessors»

This date is generally taken to mark beginning of Indian Residential Schools, though the system had early predecessors in New France and New Brunswick, and several schools were already operating.

As one of the early predecessors to the Impressionist movement, David Cox was an English landscape painter and an important member of the Birmingham School.

Blacking out the gallery and re-inventing it as a «contemporary cave», Allen will work daily by the light of a single lamp, as did our early predecessors.

Australia became Toyota's first export market after early predecessors of LandCruiser 70 Series — the FJ25, FJ45 and FJ43 — were employed by construction magnate Leslie (later Sir Leslie) Thiess during the construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme.

But more than that, De La Salle has looked every bit the part of its predecessors, especially — and not surprisingly — its early predecessors, which Alumbaugh himself was a part of in the mid-90s.

Fortunately, modern science continues to facilitate solutions for today's food manufacturers that their early predecessors could never have imagined.

At that time, Zuckerberg was developing the just - for - fun website Facemash, an early predecessor of

That group includes all dinosaurs but also includes their earlier predecessors and their subsequent kin, which had the same general body plan but didn't have distinctive anatomical features in their hip bones that all true dinosaurs shared.

The steel club's earliest predecessor from a fitness perspective would be the meel.

Two years earlier the predecessor school on the site had been graded outstanding.

This 8 - minute trailer will catch you up with everything you need to know from the previous games, with a throwback to the classic 16 - bit visualizations from the game's earliest predecessors.

So instead of using jargon, let me give you a simple dress - code example to help you to understand «postmodernist art» and how it differs from «modern art» and its even earlier predecessor «academic art».

As the research arm of the US Department of Defense, DARPA has funded the development of many technologies we use in our daily lives, from GPS to an early predecessor to the internet known as ARPANET.

In 1933 United began operating the Boeing 247 — the first all - metal airplane and able to fly transcontinental in 20 hours, which made it significantly faster than its earlier predecessors.

Not exact matches

In Saudi Arabia earlier, Pompeo said that the U.S. would abandon the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, reached under President Donald Trump's predecessor, unless talks with European partners yield improvements to ensure the Islamic Republic never possesses nuclear weapons.

But early efforts around augmented reality, including Google Glass and Microsoft's own predecessor to HoloLens called Kinect, have sputtered.

The Galaxy Note 8 takes all of the best features in the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 +, both of which debuted earlier this year, and adds some additional components that make the phone more attractive than its predecessors.

The Tegra X1 has twice the performance of its predecessor, the Tegra K1, and will come out in early 2015, Nvidia said.

Young Conservative staffers have, on balance, been likelier to marry off and start families at a young age than their Liberal predecessors a decade earlier.

His successor, Gaston Fessard, an early supporter of Charles de Gaulle and a good friend of the well - known Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin, continued his predecessor's policy of courageous resistance to Vichy collaboration with Nazi policy and especially its anti-Semitism.

They became imitators of their predecessors on the basis of a belief that every period since the time of the Prophet has been inferior to the earlier days.

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

If the epochs are that discrete, how can they, in their early phases, grasp the characteristics of their predecessors?

Each generation rejects, but also builds upon, the work of its predecessors, often retrieving elements of the earlier tradition that those predecessors had rejected.

There were cheers as Pope Benedict XVI personally beatified his predecessor, and a huge tapestry protrait of John Paul II was unveiled, showing him as the healthy, vigorous and relatively young man he was early in his papacy.

While this statement might seem fuzzy, it is best appreciated by contrast with a statement published almost fifty years earlier by one of the author's predecessors in the presidency, who was explaining why there was no room for a graduate school, in the usual mode, on a Catholic campus.

Such a society is composed of occasions each of which is able to sum up the mental experience of its predecessors in such a way that any novelty which enters into a new occasion builds upon that which was experienced by earlier occasions.

There can no longer be any doubt that the pioneers of early modern science were far more indebted to their medieval predecessors than they were inclined to admit.

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal will be given another # 150m to revive the club's fortunes, with the club's hierarchy thought to be reluctant to make another change following the early departure of Van Gaal's predecessor David Moyes --(Daily Express)

Giroud replaced Walcott 14 minutes from time and had a chance almost immediately, but like his predecessor's early opportunities, he missed.

Unlike their predecessors in the long - running debates on toileting, the latest proponents of early potty training mercifully refrain from remonstrating that you'll turn your child into a mess of an adult if you wait too long to introduce her to the toilet (or make her anal if you start too soon).

Earlier, it was Skelos's equally well - coiffed predecessor, Republican Joe Bruno, who had his conviction tossed, only to be retried and acquitted.

Mr. Speaker, this Government was confronted with a huge stock of expenditure arrears upon taking office from our predecessors early this year.

In the Assembly, however, the members serving in 2015 will have more previous experience than their predecessors from earlier decades.

Before the election Dr Fox's predecessor in the MoD, Bob Ainsworth, had jumped to defend Sir Jock's status after suggestions he could be forced out early.

The contract for Krumpter's immediate predecessor, Flynn, who retired in November 2016, created controversy after Newsday reported earlier this year that Flynn had overtime payments written into his contract and was paid a salary of $ 311,961 in the 2016 - 17 fiscal year, during which he was the third - highest paid employee in the state.

Given this lack of interest, and assuming elected officials reflect their constituents, is it any wonder that their predecessors in the late 1960s and early 1970s were able to abandon the old city hall for more than 25 years with virtual impunity?

All three parties have expressed their support for early action but without addressing these barriers a new government in 2015 will struggle just as their predecessors have done.

His predecessor as Democrat leader, Malcolm Smith, was convicted earlier this year of seeking to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot as a Republican candidate.

Earlier today, AG Eric Schneiderman announced that he has decided to suspend the 90 - day purge policy in his office, which was put into place in 2007 by his predecessor, Cuomo.

In earlier publications, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh jabbed his predecessor Prof. Jane Naana Opoku - Agyemang describing her as an «embarrassment» and a «disgrace» as Minister of Education in the John Mahama administration.

The mayor also took a few jabs at his predecessor, Mike Bloomberg — something he has largely avoided doing since early in his tenure as mayor.

Assembly 59th District: Assemblyman Alan Maisel, who was Chief - of - Staff to his predecessor, Frank Seddio, won a special election earlier this year after Seddio accepted an appointment as Surrogate.

But a very similar series of events played out in early 2007 during a special election for a vacant State Senate seat in Nassau County — only then it was Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Mr. de Blasio's predecessor, who played a crucial role.

the Shadow Justice Secretary is now opposing the plans to privatise probation, while a decade earlier some of his Labour predecessors created the National Offender Management Service partly because it would create opportunities for more probation outsourcing.

Earlier in the day, de Blasio insisted the time he spoke wasn't a concern for him, while he parsed the decision to his predecessor Michael Bloomberg speak to boost Clinton's candidacy.

The Senior Staff Association of the hospital earlier this month demanded the resignation of Dr Gilbert Buckle because they believe he is repeating the mistakes of his predecessors.

In the early 1930s, the Buffalo Public Library (a predecessor of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library,) began to build a unique collection of special English and foreign language editions of the novel.

In an unusual step that county Democrats say is politically motivated, a former Rensselaer County prosecutor wrote a letter to the Justice Department earlier this year asking federal prosecutors to investigate whether District Attorney Richard McNally had improperly ended the grand jury probe that was started by McNally's predecessor, Patricia DeAngelis, a Republican who did not seek re-election in 2007.

DailyPost learnt that Obiano, who went into a state executive meeting with the old commissioners he inherited from his predecessor, Chief Peter Obi, will swear in the new commissioners consequent upon the confirmation of their names by the Anambra State House of Assembly earlier this week.