Sentence examples for because it existed before from inspiring English sources

But Christ Church, which was established in 1733, asserts that it has firm legal footing to keep control of its building and property because it existed before the Episcopal denomination, which was established in the United States in 1789.

The 35-room Manor Inn has been able to operate as an exception because it existed before the zoning law.

"And you can't just assume that because the next-door neighbor has built something on his property that you can build the same thing," Mr. Grossman said, explaining that a structure on an adjoining property may be permitted only because it existed before the adoption of the zoning law.

In this section we provide a new example of this type, which is interesting because it existed before Rakotch's theorem and appears in some proofs of the famous Stone-Weierstrass approximation theorem [9].

So why didn't it exist before?

The ancestor of the Agaricomycetes could not have been an ECM species because it existed long before any of its potential hosts.

It is worth noting but not surprising, that the bacterial-virus world is self-sufficient, because it existed long before us and other higher organisms.

"It is exacerbated by Zionism, but it existed before Zionism".

First, because it existed, and still exists; it started me off, and it gave me confidence.

"This medal is visionary because it fills a void that existed before," he said.

It can't, because it exists.