(n.) One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are proud of our freedom-fighting forefathers, and resistance is in our blood.
(2) "To be part of a family and tribe, to have open space, to have freedom to live in the traditional agricultural way that our forefathers lived in, to maintain our traditions and values, to be generous and offer good hospitality, to be patient, to help each other, to be human.
(3) We are facing a crisis in nursing not unlike that faced by our foremothers and forefathers: a shortage of nurses that promises to get worse before it gets better.
(4) Bruno Zanardi, a restorer and lecturer at the University of Urbino, central Italy , said he noticed significant changes in the chapel, which houses works by Giotto, one of the forefathers of Renaissance art, and his contemporaries Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti.
(5) He felt he was fulfilling his destiny until one day last month when a letter from the Home Office arrived, informing him that he was no longer welcome in the land of his forefathers and that his application to remain in the UK indefinitely had been refused.
(6) So on Australia Day, we honour the ancestors who were custodians of this ancient continent; we pay tribute to our forefathers who enshrined freedom, fairness and unity in Australia’s constitution; and we reaffirm our commitment to make this country of ours a beacon of hope and optimism in an uncertain world,” Abbott said.
(7) "We're losing some of our forefathers' history by giving up something that really I don't think they intended for us to give away," church member Paul Dutton, who voted "no", told the station.
(8) Stormzy’s skill as an MC and strict adherence to grime first-principles (140bpm tracks, freestyles, performing over classic instrumentals from grime forefathers) means he attracts groups of clued-up teenagers who buzz off whatever off-the-cuff tracks he puts online next.
(9) Meanwhile, and a propos of nothing, a word on the The Last Taboo : Loaf around London or any major city in these metrosexual times and it won't be long before you see men doing things that would have outraged, or at least baffled, their forefathers.
(10) A successful hotelier in Townsville and Bowen, as well as Bowen mayor, Wills recounts how the police superintendent would seek men of "pluck and a quiet tongue" to help disperse the Aboriginal people who threatened and attacked settlers: "You may bet we weren't backward in doing what we were ordered to do and what our forefathers have done to keep possession of the soil that was laying to waste and no good being done with it, when… our own white people were crying out for room to stretch our legs on."
(11) They provided our hardwood beams and the timber for our traditional doors, whose design our forefathers brought from Yemen.
(12) The constitution founded by our forefathers is important enough that the will of a greater majority of our citizens would be required to bring a change,” the president, Jean-Luc Corelli, said.
(13) I completely tune out through an entire section on Giotto , the man described as the forefather of the Renaissance movement.
(14) "We are proud of our freedom-fighting forefathers and resistance is in our blood.
(15) Grid reference: 51.5080, -1.1109 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com River Waveney, Bungay, Suffolk The Waveney was the favourite river of Roger Deakin – forefather of the wild swimming movement.
(16) It also stresses areas of potential research, as our medical forefathers had imagination but lacked the technical capabilities which are now at our disposal.
(17) One of the reasons for the state, as our forefathers learned, is that we need it to manage the consequences.
(18) And let me pay tribute to the soldiers, yours and ours, who again fight side by side in the plains of Afghanistan and the streets of Iraq, just as their forefathers fought side by side in the sands of Tunisia, on the beaches of Normandy and then on the bridges over the Rhine.
(19) And the latest blow: the University Chicago’s Quarterly Review of Biology has released a report that calls into question one of the cornerstone beliefs of Paleo carnivores: that it was a switch to meat in the hominid diet, brought about by the advent of hunting equipment during the stone age, that led to the increased brain size that distinguishes humans from our heavier-browed forefathers.
(20) Our forefathers put these checks and balances in place when the information was kept in cardboard files, and data was therefore difficult to appropriate and misuse.
Progenitor
Definition:
(n.) An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of in vivo administration of native prostaglandin E2 (PGE) on the cycling status of the granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cell (CFU-GM) were examined in a mouse model.
(2) In healthy persons the supernatant of lymphocytes preincubated with PHA and ALG was found to show a stimulating effect to clonogenic properties of marrow progenitors, the mentioned effect being not in proportion to the concentration value.
(3) We therefore think that the detailed examination of CALLA(-) non-T non-B ALL cells using myeloid specific antibodies is helpful in clarifying the characteristics of myeloid precursors and the common bipotential stem cell of lymphoid and myeloid progenitors.
(4) The high levels of circulating progenitor cells in ALL and CLL patients clearly distinguish them from other cytopenic hematological malignancies, in which decreased progenitor cell levels have been demonstrated previously (acute myeloid leukemia, hairy cell leukemia).
(5) Studies on proliferation and differentiation of granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cells in Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) were done on a 1-month-old patient, using the soft-agar bone marrow culture technique.
(6) Certain mouse and human hematopoietic progenitor cells also contain an aldehyde dehydrogenase that catalyzes the detoxification of aldophosphamide, but the specific identity of this enzyme remains to be established.
(7) Mouse spleen cells rich in erythroid progenitors were washed free of endogenous Epo and then incubated in the absence of Epo.
(8) The bone marrow differentials and numbers of granulocyte-macrophage progenitors (CFC-GM) were determined after irradiation with 1.5 Gy.
(9) However, the studies on 0-2A progenitor cells were carried out in bulk cultures of optic nerve, and so it was possible that other cell-cell interactions were required for differentiation in culture.
(10) In culture, GY30 cells sustain the production of granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells (GM-CFU) but fail to support the survival of pluripotential stem cells (CFU-S).
(11) The development of T cells from stem (progenitor) cells to effector cells results from a two-wave process of proliferation and differentiation.
(12) No chemical or immunological differences were observed in the cell wall carbohydrate of the noncapsulated streptococcus, 89R50, and that of its capsulated progenitor.
(13) This is exemplified in lymphoma cells (chronic lymphocytic leukemia of B or T type, Sezary Syndrome, immunocytoma) that resemble mature and immunocompetent T and B cells, in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) (equivalent to thymus cells) and in non-T ALL (corresponding to lymphoid progenitor cells in the bone marrow).
(14) We studied MDS-associated inhibitory activity, which inhibited colony formation in vitro of granulocyte-macrophage progenitors (CFU-GM).
(15) In contrast, populations containing BFUe yielded a striking (sixfold for CFUe; 23-fold for e-clusters) expansion of late progenitors in the presence of Epo.
(16) The stem cell loss immediately following 55Fe injection is in our interpretation caused by rapid differentiation along the erythroid pathway in a response that involves all progenitor populations.
(17) We report here that human IL-6 and IL-3 act synergistically in support of the proliferation of progenitors for human blast cell colonies and that IL-1 alpha reveals no synergism with IL-3 when tested against purified human marrow progenitors.
(18) In addition, we have examined the ability of these fibroblasts and their conditioned medium (CM) to induce differentiation of human hemopoietic progenitor cells.
(19) AF and its deacetylated form inhibited the development of macrophage and granulocytic colonies from progenitor cells in human bone marrow even at concentrations less than or equal to 10(-9)M. The disease suppressive activity of AF could result in part from the reduction of cell numbers in arthritic lesions and our findings provide a mechanism for this possibility.
(20) Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SH) with an increased number of red blood cells (RBC), microcytosis, and normal hemoglobin (Hb) concentration were used to study the effect of different manipulations of the erythron on erythropoietin production and on erythroid progenitor proliferation by bone marrow cells in order to gain insight regarding the regulation of erythropoiesis.