precursor

How To Use precursor In A Sentence

• Schedule 3 comprises a number of toxic or precursor chemicals with widespread industrial uses, such as phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride.
• The amendments to the Armed Forces Act include a provision under which the contracts of the professional soldiers would include a paragraph for precursory agreement for participation in missions abroad.
• As in so much else, the French revolutionary regime was the precursor of the centralized, totalitarian, managerial, pseudo-democratic despotisms that now reign over the West.
• Will it prove a catalyst, a precursor to brighter things? Times, Sunday Times
• Biological research has often been a precursor to medical breakthroughs which benefit patients.
• Management wants year-round random testing, a ban on precursors such as androstenedione and stiffer penalties for players who violate the policy. USATODAY.com - Expos question nears an answer
• A number of Daphnia proteins showed one-to-one orthologous relationships to Drosophila ABC proteins including the sulfonyl urea receptor (SUR), the ecdysone transporter ET23, and the eye pigment precursor transporter scarlet. BioMed Central - Latest articles
• Origin of GISTs from precursor cells would also better explain their described occurrence in the omentum and mesentery without involvement of the tubular gastrointestinal tract.25
• These ideas, their precursors, their extrapolations and their interpretations have been repeatedly turned over during the last 120 years.
• If there is any likeness at all between the machine and its embodied precursor, the closest analogy to that relationship might be between adults and the babies they once were.