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
The book lung looks like a book with many pages and is located just anterior to a spiracle in the ventral abdomen.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Anterior to the talus is the navicular bone, and anterior to this are the medial, intermediate, and lateral cuneiform bones.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
It is probably anterior to it, and will survive it.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
