Sentence examples for before acceding from inspiring English sources
Stockdale ordered his men to endure as much physical abuse as they could before acceding to any of their interrogators' demands -- the key, in his view, to preserving a sense of dignity -- and to always confess to fellow inmates everything they had been forced to divulge.
Son of the crown prince (later, from 1955, king) Mahendra, Birendra was educated at St. Joseph's College (Darjeeling, India), Eton College (England), Tokyo University (1967), and Harvard University (1967 68) and traveled extensively before acceding to the throne on his father's death on January 31 , 1972
Suppose Dodds before acceding to the postscript had raised the price to £805.
Pate's parents waited until he was in the third grade before acceding to his persistent requests for piano lessons.
Although Decius's origins are not known, it is certain that he was a senator and a consul before acceding to the throne.
Before acceding to the request, the prime minister had contended that the wiretapping evidence on which it was based was illegal.
In the event, Shirov tried for about 45 moves and then exchanged into 'R v N' which he pursued for another 10 moves before finally acceding to the draw.
But the ruling said the court had no jurisdiction to examine complaints over the killings themselves because the massacre took place a decade before the rights convention became international law and 58 years before Russia acceded to it, in 1998.
Queen Elizabeth II had already made a lifelong commitment in public before she acceded to the throne.
The first of China's atomic tests took place on October 16, 1964; the most recent occurred on July 29 , 1996 just before China acceded to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
