anterior to
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The document they produced was, Beard argued, “essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental private rights of property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities.”
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
They are arranged in the order in which they are expressed, from anterior to posterior.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
Also, anterior to the premotor cortex and primary motor cortex is Broca’s area.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The greater wing is best seen on the outside of the lateral skull, where it forms a rectangular area immediately anterior to the squamous portion of the temporal bone.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The principle of criticism of Christian dogmas can only be the principle of Christianity itself, which is anterior to all dogmas, and which it is the aim of dogmas to manifest and to apply.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier
