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  • noun Plural form of forebearer.

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  • Ukrainian forebearers from the lands resting between the Carpathian Mountains in the West, the Black Sea in the South and east across the Dneister, the Dneiper and the Don Rivers, to the unmarked divide between the European and the Asian Steppe lands, have made their magnificent contribution to our country.

    Ukrainian-Canadian Co-operation 1994

  • At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebearers, and true to our founding documents.

    Archive 2009-01-18 Tyler 2009

  • Our Teutonic forebearers held that honorable death in battle was a good thing to be sought as the "straw death" by lingering illness was considered the worst of outcomes.

    Praise The Lord, Pack The Heat, And Pass On The Ammunition 2009

  • Our Teutonic forebearers held that honorable death in battle was a good thing to be sought as the "straw death" by lingering illness was considered the worst of outcomes.

    Praise The Lord, Pack The Heat, And Pass On The Ammunition 2009

  • That sort of thing did not occur until the 20th century modernists threw off the values of their forebearers.

    Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903 2009

  • At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebearers, and true to our founding documents.

    44 Tyler 2009

  • Have we handled this milestone better or worse than our forebearers who faced similar moral struggles?

    Rizwan A. Rahmani: The War on Terror and Ghosts of Osama Bin Laden Rizwan A. Rahmani 2011

  • Given the almost unfettered ability to satisfy almost any desire, given their training, living in the world they emerged in, would Wendy Burden have led a more virtuous existence than her ultra rich forebearers?

    Thomas Hoving, Wendy Burden and the End of Elite Privelige? 2010

  • Their stance on numerous issues bears no resemblance to the positions held by their forebearers in the original conservative movement.

    Edward Flattau: Ideological Masquerade 2010

  • Given the almost unfettered ability to satisfy almost any desire, given their training, living in the world they emerged in, would Wendy Burden have led a more virtuous existence than her ultra rich forebearers?

    Michael Henry Adams: Thomas Hoving, Wendy Burden and the End of Elite Privelige? 2010

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