antecedent

Maybe the Satanic panic isn't even the best kind of antecedent, but rather the child abduction panic or the gang crime panic, where there is a real problem, but blown out of proportion.

Maybe the closest antecedent is a new, $85 million HUD program called “Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing,” or PRO Housing, which this summer issued 17 grants of a few million dollars each.

The man in black’s subtle “I wear this crown of thorns” lyric tweak felt like a serendipitous nod to the late Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone, the Pearl Jam antecedent whose best-known song was “Crown of Thorns.”

The antecedent to such change occurred in 2005, when the first Americans to buy a Premier League club — Malcolm Glazer and his sons, who owned the N.F.L.’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers — acquired control of Manchester United.

The politics of Arizona’s current justices bear little resemblance to the 19th century antecedent upon whom their ruling relies.