7 sentences with 'forerunner'

Example sentences and phrases with the word forerunner and other words derived from it.


« Henry Ford built the Model T and was the forerunner of the modern assembly line. »
« Opened in 1929, the village was the forerunner of America's industrial theme parks. »
« "Galileo," says Hawking, "was the first scientist to use his eyes, both figuratively and physically. In a way, he was the forerunner of science as we know it today." »
« Arguably the most successful absolutist state in Europe, apart from France, was the small northern Germanic kingdom of Brandenburg, the forerunner of the later Germanic state of Prussia. »
« Newton was the president of the Royal Society, which published Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the forerunner of the academic journals that remain the backbone of scholarship today. »
« Countries such as Iraq, Transjordan and the Nadj (the forerunner of today's Saudi Arabia) were simply invented by British politicians, often with compliant Arab leaders thrown onto newly invented thrones in the process. »
« Freud was one of the founders of the medical discipline of psychology. He was the forerunner of the concept of modern therapy itself and his theories, although now largely rejected by psychologists in terms of their empirical accuracy, continue to exert an enormous influence. »

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