Joseph Proudhon, a man ahead of his time, and who would soon become known as a forebear to anarchism. From Wordnik.com. [nefac.net] Reference
The FCC promises it would 'forebear' any attempt to control content under Title II. From Wordnik.com. [Rick Carnes: Net Neutrality -- Can We Trust the FCC Not to Censor the Internet?] Reference
But can we really trust the FCC to 'forebear' authority to reach any further than the transport level?. From Wordnik.com. [Rick Carnes: Net Neutrality -- Can We Trust the FCC Not to Censor the Internet?] Reference
It belonged to the forebear of my great-grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
You have much to learn, mage - mercy, compassion, forebear-ance. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic of Krynn]
Little wonder that the iron horse began to replace his organic forebear!. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution] Reference
I guess I inherited mine from my American forebear, the good Mr. Wardwell. From Wordnik.com. [Glenn W. Smith: Children of Rousseau and Hobbes] Reference
Brechdan could not forebear taking a minute for plain fleshly comradeship. From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
If anything, she is owned even more completely than her primitive forebear. From Wordnik.com. [Guardsman Of Gor]
Will the agency want to forebear to help the subordinated debenture investors?. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Chautin: Real Estate Financing for Businesses and the New Secondary Market Will Create Jobs but the Dybbuk is in the Details] Reference
You, the children of Abraham, have made a peace worthy of your great forebear. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks At Israeli Palestinian Interim Agreement] Reference
So it could just be that you have a distant Greek forebear rather than a Navajo. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Know-It-All: How Green Are Rechargeable Batteries?] Reference
Bernice's face was filled with the kind of divine animation depicted in her forebear. From Wordnik.com. [Second Skin]
'The monks were unconcerned with how the world at large viewed their infamous forebear. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
I knew I was in for it when my Hibernian forebear reverted to the Gaelic form of my name. From Wordnik.com. [Step on a Crack]
Linden was Marian's cousin, in the lineage of the McGillis forebear Sean, whose two sons. From Wordnik.com. [A Maiden's Grave]
Their forebear, John Jacob Astor, was born in 1763, the son of a butcher in Waldorf, Germany. From Wordnik.com. [Long Before the Hilton Era, When Astors Roamed the Earth] Reference
Also like its forebear, it has at its core a relationship that is meant to be perpetually doomed. From Wordnik.com. [Fall TV Preview: EHarmony Edition] Reference
The FCC is expected to forebear on all but six of the four dozen or so rules that apply to phones. From Wordnik.com. [FCC to strip all but six phone rules for broadband] Reference
Ian was a qualified pilot, and I forebear to make any jokes at all about flying bishops at this point. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop's farewells from the February 2009 Synod] Reference
The deepest tie between the pessimistic Kaufman and his pessimistic forebear, though, is philosophical. From Wordnik.com. [Untangling Charlie Kaufman] Reference
"My forebear Grani from Bryndal was among the Icelanders who fought for King Sigurdh Ring," one boasted. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Compare the ease of duplicating the millennial dollar with the drudgery of mining its gold-standard forebear. From Wordnik.com. [How Bullion Lost Its Luster] Reference
The process will likely be lengthy, and critics doubt the agency will be able to forebear on many of those rules. From Wordnik.com. [FCC to strip all but six phone rules for broadband] Reference
The shrewd though illiterate peasant who has to be shown concrete evidence is the spiritual forebear of the scientist. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
I am proud that we finally got the facts and that for you and your brave forebear, we are finally making things right. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: President Clinton Awards Medals of Honor to Corporal Andrew Jackson Smith and President Teddy Roosevelt - January 16, 2001] Reference
I am proud that we finally got the facts and that, for you and your brave forebear, we're finally making things right. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President At Medal Of Honor Ceremony] Reference
Some forebear wisely knew that America was a vast improvement over the inhospitably soul-crushing place of native origins. From Wordnik.com. [Thane Rosenbaum: Rx for Toxic Economy: Immigrants] Reference
Here Ogilvie carefully fixed his eyes on the portrait of a forebear safely dead instead of the simmering relative at hand. From Wordnik.com. [Murder to Go]
Only time will tell if Diana will ascend the throne beside her husband as did her royal forebear, who died a widow in 1925. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The wild einkorn from that area proved to be distinct from other wild types and may be the forebear of the domestic variety. From Wordnik.com. [Einkorn's Debut] Reference
The services, the people who are the ones who decide to foreclose, I strongly urge them to forebear for this next few weeks. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2008] Reference
Mr. Brookhiser calls “Firing Line” the legitimate, but distant, forebear of the shoutfests that dominate cable news today. From Wordnik.com. [Buckley in Retrospect] Reference
The words are those of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founding father of the branch of Zionism that was the forebear of today's Likud Party. From Wordnik.com. [1948, Israel and the Palestinians: The True Story] Reference
Not for nothing was she the daughter of Amyntas, a king's son who, when a crown was offered him, could not forebear to reach for it. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Even such icons of American alternative rock as Henry Rollins and Sonic Youth have often praised the Fall as a forebear of their music. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference
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