forbearer

It was the forbearer of the present and important bank operating in the area.

According to a Midrash, Milcah was the forbearer of all the prophets in the world.

Unlike its famous forbearer, the Capri, Cougar sales were never brisk, despite good reports of the model as a "driver's car".

Echoing its 1907 forbearer, it also contains its own "Martens Clause" in the Preamble.

Hip hop DX magazine described snap music as a "laid back version of its forbearer, crunk music".

The result is pale, sodden bacon, an imitation of its dry-cured forbearer that nevertheless generates sales of more than $2 billion annually in the United States.

After World War I, all German colonies were made mandates of the League of Nations, the UN's forbearer.

This was a forbearer to the comprehensive codification of civil law in 1811, known as the Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (ABGB).

And thankfully, the independence of the OS X Finder makes it eminently more changeable than its heavily integrated classic Mac OS forbearer.

Plato itself was real, but referred not to a secret government program, but rather to the first "modern" electronic learning system, the forbearer of course software like WebCT and Mallard.

John's earliest known forbearer in the New World, his great grandfather, is John "The Ranger" Holladay of Belfonte in present-day Spotsylvania County, Virginia.

Founded in 1900, it was the first institution conferring advanced degrees (master's) in the commercial sciences, specifically, a Master of Science in Commerce degree, the forbearer of the modern MBA degree.

Frozen Zoo at San Diego Zoo Conservation Research has acted as a forbearer to similar projects at other zoos in the United States and Europe including the Frozen Ark Project.

The work has endured to the present day as a landmark in world literary history, and it was an immediate international hit in its own time, interpreted variously as a satirical comedy, social commentary and forbearer of self-referential literature.

Ray Roa of Consequence of Sound wrote that "it sounds like a something that could make the stiffest indie-wallflowers bob their heads", while describing it as "another forbearer of what looks to be one of the summer's best pop releases."

While the early history of the family is obscure, the family has apparently lived in India since at least the 16th century; a forbearer of the family is reputed to have wed the foster-sister of the Mughal emperor Akbar and to have received Palanpur and the surrounding areas as a dowry.

Ovid picked up on Vergil's allusion in the Metamorphoses with his treatment of Atalanta, which recast's his Roman forbearer's allusion to Iphiclus in such a way that it highlights the Hesiodic character of his own poem in contrast with the Homeric character of the Aeneid.