(n.) One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
Example Sentences:
(1) It became fully operational in 1975, replacing its predecessor the rubber bullet.
(2) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
(3) Her predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, had fallen out with international donors, but Banda managed to rebuild relationships.
(4) The problem is that too many people in this place just get advised by people who are just like them, so there’s groupthink, and they have no sense of what it’s like out there.” Is he talking about his predecessor?
(5) He looks set to become a stronger leader than his cautious predecessor, Hu Jintao, but he is no radical reformer, experts say.
(6) 9.59am GMT Summary We’ll leave you with a summary of what transpired here throughout the day: • Julia Gillard announced a contest for her position as prime minister following calls by Simon Crean, a senior minister in her government, for her to be replaced by her predecessor, Kevin Rudd • Shortly before the ballot was to take place Kevin Rudd announced he would not stand for the Labor Party leadership , re-iterating his promise to the Australian people that he would not challenge Julia Gillard • When it came time for the ballot, Gillard was the only person who stood for the leadership and she and her deputy Wayne Swan were elected unopposed .
(7) Banda, 64, began her term as a darling of the west, inheriting the presidency after the unexpected death of her predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, in 2012.
(8) Sources have confirmed that there are significant tensions within the party over the Unite trade union’s active support for Corbyn, following personalised attacks by its general secretary Len McCluskey on Jim Murphy, Dugdale’s predecessor as Scottish leader.
(9) But we won’t take risks with him.” In March 2013 Roberto Mancini, Pellegrini’s predecessor at City, criticised Wilmots for fielding Kompany against Macedonia after a 60-day absence due to a calf injury.
(10) But it is the presence of Webb on the list that is potentially most troubling for Blatter, who has been at Fifa for 40 years since moving from watchmaker Longines to become the protege of his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange.
(11) May is thought to have been keen to examine more closely the role of Chinese companies in the project amid concerns about the impact on national security and despite her predecessor David Cameron’s strong support for Hinkley .
(12) The room never existed in the Palais Garnier, but belongs to its predecessor the Opera Choiseul which had burned to the ground some years earlier.
(13) There’s no doubt that Battlefield: Hardline will be much more approachable for those who haven’t bought into its predecessors.
(14) While his more eminent predecessors, Gerald Durrell and John Aspinall, established that displaying wild creatures may occasionally be compatible with respect for them, zoos around the world have also sanitised – with extravagant claims about conservation, breeding programmes and species reintroduction – the essentially unchanged business of showing caged animals for cash.
(15) Rahm may still win but it’s going to be much more of a free-for-all at that point.” Larry Bennett, a political scientist at DePaul University in Chicago, said many of Chicago’s problems, such as systemic population loss and crime, went back decades and were never solved by his predecessor, Richard M Daley, who was mayor for six terms.
(16) In general, several modifications can result in a particular series of composite molecules that possess a biologic potency greater than each of its predecessors; this correlation of structure with activity was more consistent in the [D-Ala6]-series than in the [D-Trp6]-series.
(17) But Shukrallah says groups like Dostour are weak not through laziness but because they were not allowed to develop under Mubarak and his predecessors.
(18) Obama was still in a nappy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when his predecessor John F Kennedy faced down the Soviet Union’s efforts to site atomic weapons on the island that is just a few dozen miles from Florida.
(19) The conciliatory language marked a radical change from the presidency of his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and a break from tradition dating to the 1979 revolution of referring to the US as the "Great Satan".
(20) Labeled protein predecessors were selected as indicators of retinal-cell element viability.
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.