precursor

That convention, though poorly attended, was the precursor to the Constitutional Convention.

Postol and Lloyd were skeptical; hexamine is a common precursor chemical for military-grade explosives.

It includes a quote from Ehud Olmert, the interim Prime Minister of Israel in 2003, as a precursor to gameplay.

The clearest precursor of this scenario was Helios Airways Flight 522 flying from Cyprus to Athens in August 2005.

Previous drugs targeting amyloid precursor protein, or APP, have failed.

But this by no means exhausts the benefits derived from it, draining being merely the precursor of further improvement.

At the moment when they disappeared in the forest, the owl uttered its matutinal cry, the precursor of sunrise.

For this purpose, he said, the "Precursor Society" had been established, and was now in progress of enrolment.

There was still, however, an under-current of agitation: in fact, the late event was but the precursor to a more furious storm.

Mr. O'Connell was indefatigable in stirring up his Precursor Society and other similar machines of agitation.