Howbeit, in conclusion we have done as our predecessors have been wont to do; that is to say, as well as we might, and left where we began.
This at least England owes to him, that he did more than any of his predecessors to lay the foundations of her commercial greatness; that he recognised more clearly than any of them the benefit of her maritime development.
To the Patrician Apostle, the beloved patriarch of Ireland, was reserved the glory of maturing the fruit which his predecessors had planted.
Since every improvement in the telescope and in the conditions of observation must enable modern observers to see all that their predecessors did and yet more, we shall confine our statements to the latest results.
During his long administration, Felix surpassed all his predecessors in arrogance and audacity.
Under his predecessors Judaea was confined to a narrow space, and even within these bounds there were territories in the possession of foreign foes.
What his predecessors had done with a pretense at least to some form, or under the shadow of secrecy, he accomplished openly in brazen-faced defiance of the Law.
The Procurator Gratus, whom Tiberius had appointed, took as active a part as his predecessors in the internal affairs of Judaea.
These alleviations of the burdens of the people drew down reproaches on the Patriarch from certain of his relatives, to whom he replied that his predecessors had left this duty to him.
The rules of deduction used by his predecessors he employed as formulas which could establish or abolish legal enactments.
Pilate was worthy of his master; he certainly went far beyond any of his predecessors in wounding the susceptibilities of the Judaean nation.
In this he has had predecessors in Germany and Holland--as for example, in the works of Schmid and Van Oosterzee, of which translations have been recently published.
The manner in which this fund shall be disposed of has been amply considered by preceding General Assemblies, and in the messages of mypredecessors in the executive office.
The Hellenic monarchs vied with their predecessors in the tolerance and respect which they accorded to the native religion.
They could not enforce the payment of tribute which their predecessors had wrung from the surrounding countries, and their poverty increased rapidly.
Aten as a deity was freed, in theory at least, from the trammels of myth and ritual which had grown up round his predecessors in Egypt.
The great seriousness which predominates in Luther's preaching, and the joy with which the knowledge of the gospel has filled his heart, give to his eloquence at once an authority, a fervour, and an unction which none of his predecessors had.
He seems to penetrate farther than his predecessors into the essence of Christian truth.
He neither carried weapons like his forefathers, nor went to the chase, but he surpassed all his predecessors in luxury and effeminacy.
The new dynasty must attempt to recover the losses which their predecessors had been unable to prevent.
Though by birth an Ethiopian," says Diodorus of Sabakon, "he surpassed his predecessorsin piety and gentleness.
To the predecessors of Tirhaka, Sabakon and Sebichus, Manetho allows eight and fourteen years.
A Minister who inspires great actions must be a great Minister; and Lord Chatham will always appear so,--by comparison with his predecessors and successors.
As I believe our virtues are extremely like those of our predecessors the Romans, so I am sure our luxury and extravagance are too.
Those who in our own day are entering anew on this old, misleading path, will soon slink back silent and ashamed, as all their predecessors have done before them.
The archbishop, Eadsius, read to him a long exhortation on the duties of a sovereign, and closed by reminding him of the paternal government which England enjoyed under his predecessors in the Saxon line.
Under Louis and his predecessors Flanders and its cities had risen to great commercial importance, but its rulers had neither the strength nor the prestige to keep the turbulent spirit of their subjects in due bounds.
Cimabue, we may believe, drew his Virgins and Saints from living models, whereas his predecessors had merely repeated formulas laid down for them by long tradition.
Besides this, the Wesleyans displayed an organization so superior to that of their predecessors the Puritans, that they soon became a centre round which the enemies of the church could conveniently rally.
Kant admits that there can be only one true system, but is confident that he has discovered what all his predecessors have missed.
And yet the handling alone of such works as the "Entombment" and the "Triumph of Caesar" bears witness to the talent of an engraver already more experienced than any of his Italian predecessors and more alive to the real resources of his art.
Theodosius is equally bound to turn out every public servant whom his Arian predecessors have put in.
Some persons, he said, might accuse him of spending labour on a matter so simple that his predecessors had passed it by with contempt.
Swift boasted that he was never known to steal a hint; and he certainly owed as little to his predecessors as any modern writer.
If the French ministers paid any respect to the traditional rules handed down to them through many generations, they would have acted towards Frederic as the greatest of their predecessors acted towards Gustavus Adolphus.
The chief peculiarity of Bacon's philosophy seems to us to have been this, that it aimed at things altogether different from those which his predecessors had proposed to themselves.
There he commanded his attendants to open the massy chests of bronze in which the relics of his predecessors decayed.
The difference between the philosophy of Bacon and that of his predecessors cannot, we think, be better illustrated than by comparing his views on some important subjects with those of Plato.
His predecessors had been, in his phrase, not interpreters, but anticipators of nature.
An important fact is that these men, as their predecessors had done under the early Stuarts and the Commonwealth, learned English.
The alert and courteous officials one meets with nowadays at Dover or Newhaven have little in common with theirpredecessors of the Restoration.
Tate, Shadwell:' two of his predecessors in the Laurel.
And we do hereby earnestly exhort all our brethren to follow this our example, which we heartily wish our great predecessors had heretofore set, as a remedy and prevention of all such abuses.
Whether he owed much or little to his predecessors is unimportant--take away all, and still a giant remains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "predecessors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ancestors; antecedent; elder; forebears; patriarch; predecessor; progenitor; root
