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Gecko, which originated at Netscape and predates KHTML, is often criticized for its large and infamously complex code base.

The idea predates Christianity, coming from ancient Babylon, where a paradeiza was an enclosure used for easy hunting.

He said it struck the deal in Pompei, Italy, in early February, which predates the negotiations between Pirma and the North Koreans.

The FSF has a penchant for puns, and this one seemed appropriate, I suppose. The name predates my involvement.

Your inability to successfully woo penny Long predates your acquisition of the time machine. That failure clearly stands on its own.

Geopolitical rivalry long predates the United States and the Soviet Union, of course; it dates back to the days of the Roman Empire.

Uncle Sam predates Flagg's poster by over a century and is the product of a different war.

However, according to Ms Chen, the decision to expand abroad predates the ban on domestic fund issuance, which came into force in January.

The move to increase standards predates No Child Left Behind by at least a decade, he says.

The word wife predates an association with being married or unmarried and in our earliest records just meant "woman. "

Sock puppetry predates the Internet and has never gone out of style in traditional media, but it's easier than ever to pull off online.

The conscious divine energy behind what you term the Mayan Calendar is independent of and vastly predates the Maya.

Although Daimler's deal with Li-Tek predates its relationship to Tesla, there is no conflict of interest.

However, if a user error occurs in an online database, you can revert the database to a database snapshot that predates the error.

The term "thread pool" predates the Java platform, and is probably an artifact from a less object-oriented approach.

"Certainly the struggle for civil rights significantly predates the rise of picture magazines and television, " said Berger.

For these patients, our treatment options effectively go back to the era that predates the advent of antibiotics.

The Yi Jing contains ancient cosmological information that predates the various philosophical schools of China.

Maybe this resistance is because my life experience predates computers being so entwined into daily life.

This system predates the vertebrate adaptive immune response. Its relative importance is unclear, but immunologists are working to find out.

McDonald's says that its agreement with the ACFTU to set up unions in its Guangzhou stores predates the government investigation.

Since the use of chemical processes by these early people predates writing there are no written records about their chemical skills.

The planning for these exercises clearly predates the outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Georgia.

But for some wealth managers, their cinematic inspiration in the battle against inflation predates the Reagan era.

GDP is a modern term, but the urge to count the nation's produce and compare countries' standards of living predates Adam Smith.

This phenomenon, more pronounced lately, predates the financial crisis.

Mr. Obama also pointed out that the loan guarantee program predates his administration and has in the past had bipartisan support.

Laughter probably predates human speech by millions of years, scientists think.

That predates the latest turmoil in financial markets which has forced companies to shed more jobs.

As with the Easter Bunny and the holiday itself, the Easter Egg predates the Christian holiday of Easter.

Historically, moral disdain for smoking long predates any issues of health.

These can all be dismissed because of lack of evidence or because OK predates the events that supposedly led to creation.

That estimate, which predates Agricultural Bank's filing this week, assumes it raises just $20 billion.

He springs from the cold, infinite void that both predates the universe and awaits its end.

Part of the gloom predates the financial crisis.

"The Church's teaching on contraception predates the discovery of Aids, " Mr Ivereigh told the BBC news website.

The WELL, which is an acronym for "whole earth 'electronic link, " predates the Web.

The definition of prehistory is that it predates written records - history begins with the written word.

in fact, the legend of Shambhala predates the introduction of Buddhism into Tibet.

Mr Buffett's capacity to admit error predates his popular fame.

Second, this snapshot of America's food culture and eating habits predates the homogenizing influence of Wal-Mart, McDonald's and so on.

But we do know this: unchecked, XDR-TB could take us back to the treatment era that predates the development of antibiotics.

It's a technique that predates the XMLHTTP object.

This coin predates the Qing Dynasty.

But there is one regret I can't shake, one that predates mommyhood: skipping grad school.

These parallels also suggest that human language predates the out-of-Africa migrations of 50, 000 to 70, 000 years ago.

The world's oldest computer predates Bill Gates only by about 2, 000 years.

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Moreover, unionism is a long-standing ideology that predates by some 80 years even the union of the crowns;

m presuming it predates the whole vampire thing