The new Tory left is, if anything, even further removed from its antecedents in previous decades.
Virgil was aware of the value of myth in establishing the divine antecedents of Augustus's expanding empire.
Keith Levett of Henry Poole, a Savile Row tailor in business since 1806, is sceptical of the direct military antecedents of the suit.
The single or double vents that make it comfortable to wear a coat on horseback are testament to the sporting antecedents of the suit.
Modest as he is, these are Van der Straeten's skilled antecedents.
Like their antecedents in the desert, they are defined not by what they carry but by what they leave behind, knowing that the environment will provide it.
We understand criminal behaviour often has complex and tragic antecedents.
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It began as a church in 537 under the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, eager to go one up on his Roman antecedents by building a structure on an unprecedented scale.
By 1890 the American office worker wanted both the informality of the lounge suit, with its sporting heritage, and a snappy, modern and efficient look that its military antecedents gave it.
Some judges have also looked to Constitutional antecedents like English jurist William Blackstone to help better understand the context and thinking of the Founders and their foundations in English common law.
Its antecedents lie in pre-war periods of technological innovation.
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Dr Kuhn and Dr Stiner, by contrast, assign to women the main role in establishing the antecedents of modern economics, and thus launching the process of growth that continues to this day.
It also stated that cultural authenticity is based on recognition of the components of cultural identity, whatever their geographic origin and however they have mingled, and that every people or group of peoples has both the right and the duty to determine independently its own cultural identity, based on its historical antecedents, its individual values and aspirations, and its sovereign will.
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