In any case, Orrin's discussion over at Volokh is interesting, as is the idea of anticipator warrants. From Wordnik.com. [What is the "innovative" arrangement with the FISA Court about the NSA program?] Reference
Unlike Lambert, Gradishar was not a flashy headhunter, just a great anticipator who was a deadly tackler and great short-yardage defender. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
Instead of a real resumption of the great themes of the philosophy of Bacon one finds in Comte an attempt to make of Bacon a clever but confused anticipator of the positivist philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [BACONIANISM] Reference
While no anticipator of miracles and fully cognizant of the special problems establishing for'mal alliance with the locals entailed, he still felt that the pace of progress was too slow. From Wordnik.com. [The Howling Stones]
Andrea Mantegna, brother-in-law of Giovanni and Gentile Bellini, master colorist and illusionist, anticipator of mannerism and the baroque, made a picture that has attracted, moved and confused its viewers since it first came to light after its maker's death in 1506. From Wordnik.com. [Mantegna's Singular Jesus] Reference
Saint-Hilaire he became almost the anticipator of Darwin. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3] Reference
Doré must be regarded as an anticipator of the Entente cordiale. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
"anticipators" who lost too much money (I was an anticipator in my 20s and a cross sectional in my 30s, etc.). From Wordnik.com. Reference
Here we would seem to have a clear conception of the idea of universal gravitation, and Anaxagoras stands before us as the anticipator of Newton. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
He was the anticipator, as, had he lived, he would have been the propagator, of the new phase of Christianity of which St. Paul became the main support. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The withered and the aged mistake their failing forces for calmness and resignation, and an apathy, the drear anticipator of death, for presence of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
It has been seen that William Gregg, the builder of the Graniteville Factory in South Carolina, was the father, in the sense that he was the anticipator, of a new economic life for the South. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South] Reference
Claude, who was enthusiastically fond of children, had succeeded in obtaining a large share of his affection, and was the companion of his sports and the kind anticipator of his wants and wishes. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk and the Vine-dresser: or, the Emigrants of Bellesme] Reference
There is an elaborate presentation of a quite impossibly named clergyman, who is, it seems, an anticipator of "le Puseysme" and an actual high-churchman, who talks as never high-churchman talked from. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
The level of lore (S&P 875) never triggered-the high print on Friday was 875-again bringing to bear one of the oldest adages in trading, "never anticipate the anticipator." it's still "in play" above S&P 800. From Wordnik.com. [Minyanville] Reference
He quotes unconsciously, but with new power of meaning, a clause from one of Shakespeare's sonnets; and, as with some other men's most famous work, the Ode on the Recollections of Childhood had its anticipator. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations, with an Essay on Style] Reference
Erasmus Darwin was in fact an anticipator of Lamarck, and not of Charles Darwin; there is no trace in his works of the conceptions by the addition of which his grandson metamorphosed the theory of evolution as applied to living things and gave it a new foundation. From Wordnik.com. [Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02] Reference
The man who had in his earlier works sometimes seemed the most general and abstract even of eighteenth-century writers, becomes here, by force of his interest in the primary things of humanity, almost a pioneer of the new love of externalities, a relater of details, an anticipator of his own Boswell. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Johnson and His Circle] Reference
As usual, you can monitor the action by using Cramer's Take) as the anticipator and playing the gains with Cramer's Take) -- which reports Thursday, but that fact is now irrelevant given its propensity to trade wholly with the stock futures -- or with Cramer's Take), because the gains are as phony and ephemeral as the losses these days. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He's a good passer and a good anticipator. From Wordnik.com. [The Bellingham Herald: Sports News] Reference
"I'm a good anticipator. From Wordnik.com. [hattiesburgamerican.com -] Reference
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