How To Use Preceding In A Sentence

The preceding months of wrangling were the cause of a great deal of economic uncertainty.
A slight aspirate preceding and modifying the sibilant, which is, however, the stronger of the two consonants; _e.g. hsing_ = _hissing_ without the first _i_, Myths and Legends of China
The relative clause: it is defined as a clausal modifier, restrictive or non-restrictive, used to modify a preceding construction, most often a preceding noun or noun phrase.
This was especially worrying given that three quarters of those surveyed claimed to have experienced rudeness in the preceding year. Times, Sunday Times
The preceding locution is established Mazzinian; the following clearly mine. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

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The New York law confers a right of inspection only on persons who have been church members for the six months preceding their request for inspection. Christianity Today
But unlike Karl Barth or Paul Tillich, for example, who saw themselves as fusing philosophy and theology, Rosenstock-Huessy refused to see himself primarily as a philosopher or theologian ” though when the term philosopher was qualified by the preceding ˜social™, he was more willing to accept that designation. [ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Kazzer was a big deal before anybody even knew who he was - in the months preceding the release of his first CD, Pedal to the Metal, he was already on a Canada-wide tour to promote his brand of good-time rock & hip-hop.
At the national level, they show that for most of the twentieth century, each successive cohort of young people left home at an average age below that of the cohort immediately preceding them.
The Safety Board concluded that the incorrect rigging wasn't a significant factor on the preceding flights because weight and balance on those flights were well within limits.
The format for the final is slightly different to preceding shows, as the result will emerge tonight rather than on the following day. Times, Sunday Times
It shrank by 0.9 per cent in the preceding three months. Times, Sunday Times
This ebb of the tide continued from the middle of the preceding night until dark on the following night. Times, Sunday Times
Thus I think we now have a sensible solution to the reconstruction of the Old IE objective endings preceding the agglutination of “indicative” postclitic demonstrative *əi PIE *-i: The trouble with the PIE 1st & 2nd person plural endings (3)
The preceding section dealt with the validity of state regulation in the absence of federal regulation.
The term preceding the Commencement of 1799 was especially stormy. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
Once again, one need not even comment on the law in affirming the substance of my preceding sentence here. Balkinization
Cicero was out of Rome during the eighteen months preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, being selected under regulations following Pompey's lex de provinciis.
Every year on St Paul's day, while the soloist on the ambo sang the melodies of the fourth vigiliary responsory, the Pope, entering, as we have said, into the camera confessionis, withdrew the censer - which had been let down through the hole on to the tomb of the apostle at this same Office in the preceding year, and introduced another also full of burning incense. The Station at St Paul
Preceding it, ISU carillonneur Tin-shi Tam will provide music, and cookies and hot chocolate will be served.
Day after day we're treated to an over-long British news sequence covering the ‘events’ of the preceding twenty-four hours on the campaign trail, and nit-picking over the meaning of the latest polls.
All I could find about this enigmatic term was some World of Warcraft guy, and some scientific stuff about the embryonic phase of an animal preceding the "gastrula" phase. YesButNoButYes: Caption Competition
In this case, we should put at the intersections between the rows and columns the figures corresponding to the required initial levels of preceding themes or subjects.
She had been experiencing an increasing sense of desperation over the preceding weeks, and she didn't really know why. Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
The dual leadership of the preceding three weeks was now over. Times, Sunday Times
The special meaning here attached to the term deformity is sufficiently explained in the preceding paragraph; it remains to give a few illustrations, and to refer to other headings, such as Heterotaxy, Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
There is no documented report of Virginia being placed into a mesmeric trance in the hours preceding her death.
At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
His testimony contradicted that of the preceding witness.
I hear that the night that Charles sat up at White's, which was that preceding the night of Lady Holland's death, he planned out a kind of itinerant trade, which was going from horse race to horse race, and so, by knowing the value and speed of all the horses in England, to acquire a certain fortune. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
And unlike the preceding White Album, the jumbled juxtaposition of forms - faux-blues toss-offs, stately piano ballads, folkie hootenannies - feels less like a band overflowing with inspired ideas than one running out of them.
The decade immediately preceding Picasso's turn to ceramics saw the century-old debate about craft and society in France take on emphatic new political colorations, first of a leftist cast, and then of a rightist.
In conclusion, I hope the preceding arguments have convinced you of the need for action.
Still, I drew it on the page immediately preceding the most killer page in the whole book.
This weekly Robin installment is a follow-on to the preceding essays about the Boy Wonder as comic relief, and DC's collective effort to develop established aspects of superhero characters into meaningful personality traits. Archive 2009-07-01
John between the preceding vision and the following one, implying, on the one hand, the solemn introduction to the eternal sabbatism which is to follow the seventh seal; and, on the other, the silence which continued during the incense-accompanied prayers which usher in the first of the seven trumpets (Re 8: 3-5). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
This small journey seems quite a formidable expedition to me, and that sort of cowardly feeling of incapacity and disinclination for the smallest effort or unusual exertion is the growth of a two years 'habit over that of thirty preceding ones, and is a greater sign of age than white hairs, wrinkles, or loss of teeth. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
I deem it my duty further to observe that much of the imperfections in the returns of the last and perhaps of preceding enumerations proceeded from the inadequateness of the compensations allowed to the marshals and their assistants in taking them. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
Does this and the preceding section refer also to non-Lutheran movements, organizations, and bodies, such as the Federal Council, of which the General Synod was a member? American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
But an error it most certainly was: and to that _error_, the _accident_ described in the last preceding paragraph _would have_ very materially conduced, and it may have very easily done so. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark
It is this: it is much easier and quicker to knit two stitches together, by whatever means, if the two stitches themselves were knit or purled in the preceding row. Archive 2009-02-01
One saving thought alone presented itself — this might be a trial, an experiment of the philosopher Agelastes, or of the Emperor his master, for the purpose of proving the courage of which the Christians vaunted so highly, and punishing the thoughtless insult which the Count had been misadvised enough to put upon the Emperor the preceding day. Count Robert of Paris
The nuclear installation operator shall indemnify the nation for the loan under the preceding paragraph.
An applicable large employer is an employer that employed an average of at least 50 full-time employees on business days during the preceding calendar year. Christianity Today
There are a number of other achondrites that do not fit into any of the preceding groups or subgroups.
His program note explains the gyrations: "In L.S.O., L equals the solfège syllable la, which is the note A; S becomes the note that is known as Es pronounced s in German, which is what English speakers call E flat; and O elides with the preceding S to suggest the solfège syllable sol, which is the note G. NYT > Home Page
From 1970 on, he wrote -- and directed and produced -- plays in Algerian dialectal Arabic (when practically no one had attempted literature in dialectal language) following, and preceding, plays, novels and poetry in French. Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker
In all preceding studies, alkaloid production was measured as scopolamine and hyoscyamine only.
The preceding plants form a grade between the lineages considered in Lab 9 (conifers, Ginkgo and Cordaites) and the flowering plants and their kin.
AllMail (with preceding period) which will alphabetize to the top of the list. Make The Palm Pre Archive Instead Of Delete Gmail Messages | Lifehacker Australia
Each passage, let it be noted, solves a problem posed in preceding stanzas. The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth
The axis possesses an ovate odontoid process for articulation with the preceding atlas.
They," that is, both the makers and the idols, are witnesses against themselves, for the idols palpably see and know nothing (Ps 115: 4-8). that they may be ashamed -- the consequence deducible from the whole previous argument, not merely from the words immediately preceding, as in Isa 28: 13; 36: 12. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Lateral or terminal on shoots of the preceding season; sterile flowers oblong-cylindrical, 1/4 inch in length; anthers yellow, red-tinged: fertile flowers on the upper side of the twig, erect, cylindrical; cover-scales broad, much larger than the purple ovuliferous scales, terminating in a long, recurved tip. Handbook of the Trees of New England
From 1970 on, he wrote -- and directed and produced -- plays in Algerian dialectal Arabic (when practically no one had attempted literature in dialectal language) following, and preceding, plays, novels and poetry in French. Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker
Preceding the publication of this pamphlet is a report of investigations made by Ralph Bunche and Gunnar Myrdal in 1940. Race and Suffrage in the South Since 1940
Experiment 2 included a preceding context in order to fix the referent of the target word and to exclude singular interpretations.
For countries that had annexed territory in the preceding two centuries, the only real option was to fight for as long as seemed possible and then arrange an orderly retreat.
Great disturbances in ballistocardiograms were observed on days preceding embryonic deaths.
These include executing each action slowly at first; performing thrusts first in the left, and then in the right line; and preceding each exercise with the command ‘Engage the sword!’
These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding evening. Les Miserables
Tbe preceding extracls fufficiently manifeft this writer's waL It the fennel we do not find Efficient proofs of fuperiour judgment or erudition, to authorize our recommending his work to the attention of young clergymen as a guivte in their flu dies, rhef r clerical duty, or their peifonal conduit, home of the author's fuggtftiont may claim attention* particularly the letter on the compofitiori and delivery of fermons; but the general fubieel of tliefe letters has been much better treated by bUhop Burnet, archbifhop Seeker, Dr. Napletoa, and others. The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan
None of the sedentary students participated in organized exercise activities during the preceding year.
This year, because the weather system has not followed its usual pattern, for the month preceding our visit, there had been continual cold north-easterlies.
The preceding features required that certain traditional statements in the text of the ocean bill of lading be modified or replaced.
Because the existing word hypnagogic means “of, relating to, or occurring in the state of intermediate consciousness preceding sleep,” and hypnopompic means “of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes complete awakening from sleep,” many people came up with hyp - coinages. Word Fugitives
The problem in both cases is that no condition can ever be met without the fulfillment of a preceding condition.
We extracted records on 32 384 patients who had not received such a drug in the preceding three months.
Reading about a "daylily bud and petal salad" preceding a "stinging nettle and sea spinach soup" is almost enough to make one yearn for a wedge of iceberg lettuce drenched in Thousand Island dressing. Gastronomy
The preceding discussion has been devoted exclusively to disulfiram because controlled studies of calcium carbamide have not been done.
Those who had taken levodopa or a dopaminergic agonist in the preceding two months were excluded.
Thallus granulose, verrucose, or areolate, rather better developed than those of the preceding genera as shown in the more frequent verrucose and areolate conditions; apothecia minute to large, sessile to immersed, the disk and the exciple usually black; hypothecium usually brown; hymenium pale to light brown; paraphyses usually distinct; spores brown, Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
The preceding provision does not apply to licensed oil refinery operators or licensed importers.
In Gvozdanović's Indo-European Numerals, Robert Coleman suggests an assimilation of *k with preceding voiced resonants in some decad words like 'seventy' or 'ninety'. Something that bugs me about Indo-European's higher decads
Subject to the preceding sections of this Act and as hereinafter provided, actions shall and may be commenced within the time herein expressed after the cause of such actions.
The new species is highly adapted to hypogean life with very obvious troglobiomorphic features: unpigmented cuticle, an extraordinary lengthening of thorax and appendixes, multiplication of antennomeres and supernumerary placoid sensilla, not just in the apical antennomere but also in the preceding antennomeres. Archive 2007-01-01
The format for the final is slightly different to preceding shows, as the result will emerge tonight rather than on the following day. Times, Sunday Times
The common cranberry (_oxycoccos palustris_,) is distinguished from the preceding by its growing on moist sphagnous spots, and is hence called _maskoego-meena_ swamp-berry. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1
On the following morning I accompanied Admiral Porter in the ram Price, several iron-clads preceding us, up through Steele's Bayou to near Black Bayou. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
None of their family members had attempted or committed suicide in the preceding year.
In a letter of grievance over his July 14 firing, Smith says he was subject to "severe and debilitating harassment" over the 18 months preceding his dismissal.
His program note explains the gyrations: "In L.S.O., L equals the solfège syllable la, which is the note A; S becomes the note that is known as Es pronounced s in German, which is what English speakers call E flat; and O elides with the preceding S to suggest the solfège syllable sol, which is the note G. NYT > Home Page
Because of the unusual pattern of speciation preceding extinction, the region contained a mix of extinct and living species through the period of change.
During the Hohenstaufen period, as in the preceding age, the customary education for women of rank consisted chiefly in learning to read the Psalter. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
The distinction between a participle and a gerund affects the case of a preceding pronoun. Times, Sunday Times
More tears fell from her eyes and traced the preceding paths of tears.
On the Sequence diagram the object boxes have no name preceding the ":." These are called anonymous objects.
Loading is the easiest of all tubular magazine centerfires for you can easily see the magazine follower or the base of the preceding cartridge and push it with the bullet of the next round.
But in the preceding century, England was frequently an afterthought on the world stage, an island kingdom tinkering on the brink of inconsequence.
Indeed, they are the first postwar group not to have higher incomes in early adulthood than those born in the preceding decade. Times, Sunday Times
A pride of lionesses and their cubs appeared out of the bush, heading for the small pool that Glen and his wife Cindy had built the preceding year.
Leading Britain into the opening ceremony of the Games preceding one hosted by his own country is the culmination of a difficult personal journey. Times, Sunday Times
The sound change would be sporadic but not without credible phonetic motivation since the height of the vowel e and the preceding palatal l which is naturally +high as well might have lacked sufficient saliency for speakers to maintain without further fortition of the preceding m. Some random thoughts on Proto-Aegean languages
And the reader will see (in the paragraph preceding that memorable one which winds up with the diseased oyster) that he must be a worthless creature for daring to like the book, as he could only do so from a desire to hug himself in a sense of superiority by admeasurement with the most worthless of his fellow-creatures! The Kickleburys on the Rhine
The success of this venture as a magazine serial preceding the book, has the writer planning a sequel.
Some linguists believe that English possessive is no longer a case at all, but has become a clitic, an independent particle that is always pronounced as part of the preceding word.
In both we have "phonic," evidently meaning the same in each case, limited or modified by the preceding part -- _poly_ and Music Talks with Children
The scene of the preceding day had dwelt on the mind of Father Eustace, who was of that keen and penetrating cast of mind which loves not to leave unascertained whatever of mysterious is subjected to its inquiry. The Monastery
In verses 31 and 32 weighty warning and dehortation follow, based in part on the preceding picture. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
Furthermore, in order not to disturb the original pagination, the first page of this footnote began 63 pages later than the preceding page.
Did I remark in some preceding breath that Allison is more or less "dippy" over music? The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
Last evening brought us to the moment when the rescue party, having entered Volcano Bay, were about to land at the foot of the great mountain, called Olympus -- the Hili-li synonym for Mount preceding the name Olympus when the peak, some eight miles high, was referred to. A Strange Discovery
The format for the final is slightly different to preceding shows, as the result will emerge tonight rather than on the following day. Times, Sunday Times
The first part consists of an antiphonal chant from the Service for the Thursday Preceding Good Friday.
It is noticeable that a slighter disturbance of normal conditions is needed to render digestion painful than to cause painful ovulation, that is, pain preceding the menstrual flow. The Education of American Girls
The staging for Radames's return - with massed wind and brass, plus ballet - was terrific, despite some backstage noise for Aida's preceding recitative.
Avoid headings that cause you to cross behind and below the preceding aircraft in order to avoid turbulence.
We may gather from the rich abundance of motives which the Apostle suggests before he comes to present his exhortation, that he suspected the existence of some tendencies in the opposite direction in Philippi, and possibly the same conclusion may be drawn from the exuberance of the exhortation itself, and from its preceding the dehortation which follows. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
The last syzygy is the new or full moon preceding the chart.
No matter how careful the drafters are and how carefully legislation is considered-and this Act had ten years of consultations preceding its enactment-its only test is its performance as law. Priorities of My New Office
Curiensis "is of a later date (middle of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century), and differs very much in character from the preceding" leges "; it is a collection containing extracts from the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The deacon sings both “Flectamus genua” and “Levate”, which is no longer done by the subdeacon, also as on the preceding day. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.1 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the New Fire, Procession, Exultet, Prophecies
The preceding description of a hypothetical study is based on the use of traditional endoscopie methods.
Meanwhile, Lynley, who's been away on compassionate leave following the murder of his wife (in the preceding novel), is summoned back to duty to guide his possible replacement, an attractive divorcee and closet tippler named Isabelle Ardery. Book review of Elizabeth George's 'This Body of Death'
This area is known to have supported a flourishing culture in the centuries preceding Christianity.
Among the visitors at the chateau was the Baron de Saint Foix, an old friend of the Count, and his son, the Chevalier St. Foix, a sensible and amiable young man, who, having in the preceding year seen the Lady Blanche, at Paris, had become her declared admirer. The Mysteries of Udolpho
Sixty-seven percent of women included in the sleep study were classified as premenopausal (no change in menstrual bleeding regularity) and early perimenopasual (menses in the preceding three months with an increase in bleeding irregularity), 21 percent were identified as late perimenopasual (menses in the previous 12 months, but not in the previous three months), and Medlogs - Recent stories
Sterile flowers terminal or axillary on wood of the preceding year, 1/2-3/4 inch long, cylindrical; anthers pinkish-red: fertile flowers lateral along previous season's shoots, erect; scales madder-purple, spirally imbricated, broader than long, margin entire or slightly erose. Handbook of the Trees of New England
Before he could extricate himself, the runners preceding the pageant returning the great god to his shrine, beat the multitude back from the dromos and once again Kenkenes was imprisoned by the hosts. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
Indiana Jones name shall have very good effect but only on Indiana Jones Fan for some reason if somebody didn't like Indy in preceding films then bam this is a big NO to them It's All in a Name - Batman: The Dark Knight « FirstShowing.net
The answer of the defendants, which one of the courts below characterized as ‘stuffed with irrelative and redundant matter,’ did not deny the preceding facts.
A full-time farmer may elect for income averaging only if he was charged to tax on his farming profits for the two immediately preceding tax years.
The party finishes on Ash Wednesday, and J'Ouvert on the preceding Thursday night signals the beginning of the real, hard-core bacchanal.
Now it is important to realize that what is called Say's Law was in the first instance designed as a refutation of doctrines popularly held in the ages preceding the development of economics as a branch of human knowledge.
So the relevant exports took place in the six months immediately preceding the imposition of that total ban.
“Ho! the fair wind! oh-ye-ho cheerly, men!” the crew singing for joy, that so promising an event should so soon have falsified the evil portends preceding it. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Sport, show business and ethnic culture seamlessly blend in New Zealand's favourite sport, rugby, with the haka preceding every test match.
2 Coincidently with or preceding these changes the centriole, which usually lies by the side of the nucleus, undergoes subdivision, and the two resulting centrioles, each surrounded by a centrosphere, are seen to be connected by a spindle of delicate achromatic fibers the achromatic spindle. I. Embryology. 1. The Animal Cell
The malleus is connected through a tiny joint to the incus, which is attached to the stapes, both of which vibrate in their turn as result of the vibrations of the bone preceding them. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
Preceding and separating the cold glacial periods were three main interglacials (Cromerian, Hoxnian, and Ipswichian) when the climate was rather warmer.
Page 103. 3. vieilles gens: attributive adjectives are generally _feminine_ when preceding and _masculine_ when following _gens_. Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant
These eclipses belonged to 26 different saros series and included all the umbral eclipses of the 19 years preceding 1938, in order to include all the saros series now running which produce umbral eclipses. The History of the Former Han Dynasty
Asp can be carried back to the _aspis_ of the Romans, no trace being found in the dim vistas of preceding tongues. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
For example, the preceding leg of the circuit in Mumbai saw two unseeded finalists.
The quarterly measure improved by 0.5 per cent on the preceding three months - the first rise for more than a year. Times, Sunday Times
In proof of this important fact we have seen, that when this object is successfully gained, all the previous steps have been homologated and confirmed; whereas, whenever this crowning operation is awanting, all the preceding labour of the pupil becomes useless and vain, his knowledge gradually melts from the memory, and is ultimately lost. A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education
The preceding pages note the rapid and vast growth of the Union navy; but the South misjudged -- until error had proved fatal -- that enterprise and "grit" of Yankee character; that fixed steadiness of purpose which forced both, ever, into most resultful effort. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
Seen in this light natural law appears as a group of principles that tran - scend the law of different epochs and regrouping a set of norms endowed with a certain continuity by opposi - tion to the law of a given epoch, which is transitory and changing; for the law of any epoch is the inter - preter of the preceding one, whereas natural law is the law which outlives the times. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
In the preceding days, doctors had begun weaning me off my medication but I began to suffer from extreme anxiety. Times, Sunday Times
The intensity with which he had lived and raced for the preceding 18 months was simply impossible to maintain. Times, Sunday Times
This compares to the total force of 12000 who travelled to France with Henry, although some 3000 were lost during the preceding siege of Harfleur, and through dysentery. Archive 2008-10-01
Berseem is grown either over 3 months with 2 cuts as a soil improver (short berseem), usually preceding cotton, or over 6-7 months, either with 4-5 cuts as a fodder crop or grazed by tethered cattle (long berseem). Water profile of Egypt
I can summarize the preceding by pointing to the fact that there is actually a dual metaphor being employed.
In verses marked 's' the last sonant is shorter than the average of the preceding sonants. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
Now, as on each preceding day, letters were handed her by the doorman at the Casino.
The preceding chapters have been concerned with the theoretical sciences.
Preceding the word retrieval / scene encoding phase, participants were presented in the scanner with a "localizer" task involving passive viewing of either 80 spatial scenes, 80 four-letter words, or a fixation cross. PLoS Biology: New Articles
There certainly has been no idle chatter preceding this 2000 decider, no rash predictions.
See preceding error message in the incident log file for a fuller explanation of the error encountered.
All signatory states shall have the imprescriptible right to waive, wholly or in part, the requirements laid down in the preceding paragraph. Alfonso García Robles - Nobel Lecture
Throughout the preceding conversation Veronica had sat with a half-smile, taking no direct part. DARE CALL IT TREASON
As if the preceding were not enough, I also noticed, assuming that the program did not stop and offer choices if the word was in its memory, that oligopsony is in, but psychoneurotic is not; Winston is in, VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
Lead blood levels during the early 1990s were 25 micrograms per decilitre in Mexico City and Budapest, 30 in Cairo, and 40 in Bangkok, well above the 2 micrograms per decilitre in the United States (reflecting an eightfold decline over the preceding 15 years). Chapter 11
Of course, ‘poetic’ is what poets professed to be avoiding in those days and, indeed, throughout history, ‘poetic’ being a form of falsity and artifice peculiar to all preceding generations of poetasters.
My lecturer, Scott [for some reason I can never write about him without preceding his actual name with the words ‘my lecturer’], generally dislikes him, though I myself fail to see why.
Physics 7.1 and 8.5 and cited by Metochites in the preceding paragraph, namely that movement is necessarily an irreflexive relation. Byzantine Philosophy
The company's shares had climbed steadily in value over the preceding two months to a historic high at the end of the year.
Apnea duration was defined as the time between the end of inspiration of the breath preceding a central apnea and the onset of inspiration of the breath terminating the apnea.
A pervasive theory of structuration needs to be built on preceding knowledge about agency and subjectivity.
There was much improvisation in the weeks preceding the implementation of the plan, and little time to practise the landings.
You easily can override the built-in time command by preceding it with a backslash, as in the examples that follow.
They also signed Fulangxisike Elson , increased preceding performance's intensity, but peaceful roentgen Lu reinforcement their wings.
(he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Marine for a year preceding his retreat from his profession and from Europe), he possessed a latent warmth of feeling and a capacity for sympathy which were concealed by a sort of haughty, arbitrary indifference of manner arising from his early training; and by a something an enemy might have called foppish, in his aspect -- like a distorted echo of past elegance. The End of the Tether
The earliest record in which this word occurs, so far as I have seen, is in an act of Edward III., quoted by Manwood, and it is there spelt _puraley_; and it relates to the disafforested parts which several preceding kings permitted to be detached from their royal forests. Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Following the identification of an icteric infant, the maternal and preceding neonatal history are reviewed.
Even the disclaimer and preceding compliment had no effect, apparently.
The numbered ducks had been on sale for £1 each in the weeks preceding the event.
But soon four hours 'deprivation of the drug gave rise to a physical and mental prostration that no pen can adequately depict, no language convey: a horror unspeakable, a woe unutterable takes possession of the entire being; a clammy perspiration bedews the surface, the eye is stony and hard, the noise pointed, as in the hippocratic face preceding dissolution, the hands uncertain, the mind restless, the heart as ashes, the "bones marrowless. The Opium Habit
Accepting therefore the results of the two preceding chapters, that history (in the broad sense) is the study which best cultivates moral dispositions; secondly, that natural science furnishes the indispensable insight into the external world, man's physical environment; and, thirdly, that language, mathematics, and drawing are but the formal side and expression of the two realms of real knowledge, we have the _broad outlines_ of any true course of education. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart
She was, he tells us, as indeed she had been in the preceding feudal centuries, often what we should nowadays call a virago, of violent temperament, with vivid passions, broken in from childhood to all physical exercises, sharing the pleasures and dangers of the knights around her. On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue
the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm
This seemed to conflict with the accepted definition of the atom, as protyle indicated something anterior to or preceding it. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
In a preceding note upon the same subject, Mr. Hospitalier remarked that upon combining these effects of perspective with those of the praxinoscope, which give the sensation of motion, we would obtain entirely new effects. Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891
What matters is that you have slept well in the preceding week and that you feel nicely rested. Times, Sunday Times
* -- Here we place any reaction which is a repetition of any previous stimulus from amongst the ten next preceding, at the same time placing * repetition of preceding stimulus* under a separate heading. A Study of Association in Insanity
If the supershort schwa is word-medial, it lengthens an accented vowel in an immediately-preceding open syllable, otherwise all supershort schwas geminate the immediately-preceding consonant instead. Archive 2008-07-01
Label (render the label preceding the above, wrapped in a tag Planet PHP
Finally, word-final supershort schwas in penultimate-accented words never trigger vowel lengthening even though the preceding vowel is accented probably because gemination is the default and favoured process. Archive 2008-07-01
Preceding Christmas are the colorful posadas, nightly celebrations that begin December 16 and commemorate Mary and Joseph's search for an inn in Bethlehem before Jesus was born.
If the preceding sentence suggests to you something your auto mechanic might say, then I have a Web site for you.
We've also started to plug the next programme on-screen during the preceding one.
For the preceding two years Iphicrates had commanded a body of mercenaries, consisting of peltasts, [So called from the pelta, or kind of shield which they carried.] who had been first organised by Conon after rebuilding the walls of Athens. A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest
The sternite of that segment is also modified, being slightly wider and longer than the sternites immediately preceding and following it and with a more strongly recurved anterior margin and larger coxal sockets.
In the preceding paragraph the natural posture is explained as a standing posture.
W idly compared those divisions to the one that people had long used to make sense of Percy Shelley, the opposition between idealism and skepticism that received its own categorical shake-up with the 1980s stress on Percy's language, which did not so much sublate idealism and skepticism as reorient the discussion around a deconstructive figuring of tropes preceding either of those terms. The Sorrows of Young Wieboldt
If the stimulus be repeated, the muscle makes a new twitch, apparently resembling the preceding one; and if the muscle is attached to a suitable connecting lever, the several twitches give the same effect as the strokes of a piston in a steam-engine. Physiology or Medicine 1922 - Presentation Speech
Here we join issue with those Socialist writers who advocate the endowment of motherhood and give it their own meaning; and that is why in a preceding paragraph the word fundamental has been emphasized, since in the endowment of motherhood as understood by socialists there are two principles, one which I call fundamental, and a second -- that the endowment shall be by the State -- which now falls to be considered. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
On the steps and inside the hooch were the other guards and the troops who had entered the area the preceding day. Chirichingo, Luis G.
Indeed, they are the first postwar group not to have higher incomes in early adulthood than those born in the preceding decade. Times, Sunday Times
All the preceding afternoon and night heavy thunderstorms had hissed down upon the meads.
Belief in a future millennium either preceding or following (postmillennialism) the second coming of Christ, when he will reign on earth in a kingdom of his saints.
The recognition of Conversion, in fact, requires us to admit that, formally, in a logical proposition, the term preceding the copula is subject and the one following is predicate. Logic Deductive and Inductive
The Thai text explicitly labels the moral as such by preceding each moral with the text,’ This fable teaches us to know that ’.
Passing over the vague reference of "it," which doesn't refer clearly to anything in the preceding context, I'll ask why Clark doesn't know that "however" should be postpositive. Archive 2007-12-01
/l/ has a strong backing effect on preceding vowels.
At any meeting held for the selection of a candidate under this subsection, a majority of the persons eligible to vote thereat shall be required to be present for the conduct of any business, and no person shall be entitled to vote at that meeting who is appointed to the State committee or county committee after the seventh day preceding the date of the meeting.
We used a slightly modified version of the questionnaire tested in the preceding pilot study.
I remember seeing a gentleman who had the preceding day travelled two stages in a chaise with what he termed a bearable pain in his bowels; which when I saw him had ceased rather suddenly, and without a passage through him; his pulse was then weak, though not very quick; but as nothing which he swallowed would continue in his stomach many minutes, I concluded that the bowel was mortified; he died on the next day. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
In profile they display a unity of composition and graceful silhouettes that exceeds any preceding examples.
These Psalms, according to one commentary, represent the six preceding days of the week. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS

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