Obama, throughout his career, has faced a challenge in how best to manage his political antecedent.

NEWYORKER: Let��s Be Friends

The necessary antecedent to those powerful rules was, naturally, a congressional investigation: the Pecora Commission.

FORBES: The Hellhound of Wall Street

The map, at least, has no historic, real-world antecedent the constellations on the table's surface are entirely her own.

WSJ: Drawn from Life | Designer

' So you know people do have a historical antecedent to this.

NPR: Steven Bernstein: Mixing the Strange and Familiar

By this time next year, WikiLeaks itself and the personal fortunes of its editor-in-chief may be less relevant as news and more significant as historical antecedent.

FORBES: WikiLeaks: An End of Bureaucracy As We Know It?

This contrasts sharply with the short legs and long arms of the Turkana boy's antecedent "Lucy" (Australopithecus afarensis), who lived in Ethiopia about one million years earlier.

BBC: Conflict and 'boom-bust' explain humans' rapid evolution

What Dr Nedelcu and Dr Michod did was to look for an antecedent of regA in a single-celled creature, in order to find out what its job was.

ECONOMIST: How to become multicellular

The final paradox concerns Britain's booming industry, now turning out 2m cars a year, back up to the output levels of the 1970s, before the unions started demolishing Rover's antecedent, British Leyland.

ECONOMIST: Car industry