The convention was concluded under the auspices of the International Commission for Air Navigation ( forerunner to ICAO ).

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

Lublin generally was the forerunner of what would happen elsewhere.

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.

The reports of his philosophical views suggest that he was a forerunner of the Greek skeptics.

It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.

It is regarded as the forerunner of the modern bicycle and was introduced by Drais to the public in Mannheim in summer 1817 and in Paris in 1818.

Positive-Historical Judaism, the intellectual forerunner to Conservative Judaism, was developed as a school of thought in the 1840s and 1850s in Germany.

Although the Rutgers-Princeton game was undoubtedly different from what we today know as American football, it was the forerunner of what evolved into American football.

When he suspected that the American Office of Strategic Services ( forerunner of the CIA ) was showing an interest in seizing control of Chiang's regime, Chiang ordered the plotters arrested and executed.

The Concordat of London in 1107 was a forerunner of the compromise that was taken up in the Concordat of Worms.

However, his style of painting, which was a forerunner of what was later called “ Impressionism ,” did not do well.

The forerunner of today's City University of New York was governed by the Board of Education of New York City.

Until recently, Hume was seen as a forerunner of the logical positivist movement ; a form of anti-metaphysical empiricism.

It was the first platform specifically designed for building Information Centers ( a forerunner of contemporary Enterprise Data Warehousing platforms )

According to Dumezil the forerunner of all frame gods is an Indian epic hero who was the image ( avatar ) of the Vedic god Dyaus.

" Even today, though these errors have been recognized for more than a century, the general notion that Lao Tzu was Christ's forerunner has lost none of its romantic appeal.

This model was the direct forerunner of the first post-war Audi, the F103.

The Japanese torpedo boatKotaka ( Falcon ) of 1885 was " the forerunner of torpedo boat destroyers that appeared a decade later ".

In some groups, the slap bass was utilized as band percussion in lieu of a drummer ; such was the case with Bill Haley & His Saddlemen ( the forerunner group to the Comets ), which did not use drummers on recordings and live performances until late 1952 ; prior to this the slap bass was relied on for percussion, including on recordings such as Haley's versions of Rock the Joint and Rocket 88.

On 29 November, Heydrich sent invitations for a meeting to be held on 9 December at the headquarters of the International Criminal Police Commission ( the forerunner of Interpol, of which Heydrich at the time served as President ) at 16 Am Kleinen Wannsee ( in the comfortable lakeside suburb of Wannsee on the western edge of Berlin ).

The first ever international exchange visit to Czechoslovakia that year became the forerunner for the International Project Programme of today.

The International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports ( IWAS ) World Games ( or IWAS World Games ) are a multi-sport competition for athletes with a disability, which under the former name of the International Stoke Mandeville Games were the forerunner of the Paralympic Games.

Saad Muhammad also took a turn in the forerunner of mixed martial arts in Japan, participating in the first UWF International ( UWFi ) event in 1991.

Settling in Paris, he launched the Paris edition of the New York Herald, titled The Paris Herald, the forerunner of the International Herald Tribune.

Groups claiming him as a forerunner include Noua Dreaptă and other Romanian successors of the Iron Guard, the International Third Position, and various neofascist organizations in Italy and other parts of Europe.

International Socialists can also refer to the forerunner of the British Socialist Workers Party-International Socialists ( UK ).

Collins began his career with the minor league Buffalo Bisons of the Eastern League, the forerunner of the current International League, in 1893.

Apart from those seasons, however, the Stars were members of high minor leagues such as the Eastern League ( forerunner to the International ) and the New York State League through 1917.

German joined the International Socialists, forerunner of the Socialist Workers Party ( SWP ) in the early 1970s, later becoming part of its elected central committee and therefore a full timer for the group by 1977.

The forerunner for this race was the Washington, D. C. International Stakes at Laurel Park Racecourse.

The LSI was a forerunner of the present-day Socialist International.

He established the forerunner of Baker International ( ultimately Baker Hughes ) in 1907 after developing a casing shoe that revolutionized cable tool drilling.

In the International Classification ( the forerunner of the World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings ), for 1998 Daylami was rated on 123, eight pounds behind the top-weighted Skip Away In the Classification for 1999 Daylami was rated the best horse in the world, equal with Montjeu on a rating of 135.

Otlet was also an idealist and peace activist, pushing internationalist political ideas that were embodied in the League of Nations and its International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation ( forerunner of UNESCO ), working alongside his colleague Henri La Fontaine, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913, to achieve their ideas of a new world polity that they saw arising from the global diffusion of information and the creation of new kinds of international organization.

After 5 p. m. on weekdays, the station ran Spanish entertainment programming from the Spanish International Network, ( including controverisal bullfighting ) the forerunner to today's Univision.

Both WC tournaments were administered by the IAHF ( International Amateur Handball Federation ), the forerunner organisation of 1946 founded IHF, which was founded in 1928, and meant to be celebrational events for the 10th " birthday " of the Organisation.

: Proclaim National Assemblies of East and West weighty epoch-making decision of formation of first International Bahá ' í Council, forerunner of supreme administrative institution destined to emerge in fullness of time within precincts beneath shadow of World Spiritual Center of Faith already established in twin cities of ' Akká and Haifa ....

At that time, delegates set up a National Advisory Council ( the forerunner of the present International Council ), and elected Irene Copeland Lugland of Kansas City as the first National President.

The 1985 announcement of WSNS-TV's affiliating with the Spanish International Network ( the forerunner to today's Univision ) caused WBBS to end weekday programming at the end of 1985, with the exception on weekends when it ran Spanish movies into 1986.

In April 1954 FAS handed off national security-related technical assistance to the International Cooperation Administration ( forerunner of USAID ) and began to concentrate on foreign market development for U. S. agricultural commodities, signaling a radical shift in the agency's focus.

Within a year and-a-half, the business programming was gone, the subscription television service moved to rival UHF station KTWS ( channel 27, now KDFI-TV ), and KNBN-TV picked up programming from the Spanish International Network, the forerunner to today's Univision.

( The Cadet champions from 1950 up to and including 1966 won the International Cadet Week, the forerunner of the World Championships ).