"predecessor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Like its French predecessor, the palace was intended to display the power and grandeur of an absolute Bourbon monarchy.
- He also knew that his French predecessors had been overthrown because of the country's economic woes; the massive rebuilding of Paris would provide employment to whole armies of workers.
- Mollet's French predecessors in the art of gardening:
- Malory presents Guinevere in a more negative light than his French predecessors.
- He also contributed a great deal to the study of pedagogy, arguing for the pedagogical importance of the explication de texte, the French predecessor of close reading.
- Luccioni had an impressively large voice that combined beauty with power, in the tradition of his great French predecessor at the Paris Opéra, Paul Franz (1876-1950).
- In completing William of Sens's work, he showed that he was more deeply influenced than his French predecessor by contemporary Continental developments.
- Feature films also seem enchanted by this scenario, as can be seen in "Three Men and a Baby" and its French predecessor.
- When the Empire of Vietnam was proclaimed, the Japanese retained direct control of Cochinchina, in the same way as their French predecessors.
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