Sentence examples for before being selected by from inspiring English sources

Smith, a member of Bermuda's national team, played four seasons for New England before being selected by the Sounders in M.L.S.'s expansion draft late last year.

Applicants usually learn about the program through the local unemployment office, and are vetted before being selected by a jury of cooks to attend the school for free.

Lidstrom played in several Swedish ice hockey clubs before being selected by Detroit as the 53rd overall pick in the 1989 National Hockey League NHLL) draft.

The bare bones are thus: born in Chicago in 1934 to a Czech mother and Slovak father, he became a naval aviator before being selected by Nasa for astronaut training.

A former federal prosecutor, Mr. Freeh had also served as a federal District Court judge in New York City before being selected by President Bill Clinton to take over the troubled bureau.

Mr. Westbrook spent two years at U.C.L.A. before being selected by Oklahoma City (then the Seattle SuperSonics) as the fourth pick in the first round of the 2008 draft.

And when Jorge Mario Bergoglio chose the name Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi, probably the most self-abnegating man ever to direct a religious order — and one whose name, tellingly, had never before been selected by a Pope — didn't they worry a little bit?

Before being selected as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1993, Matera had long been one of the poorest cities in the country.

Scalfaro graduated in law from Milan's prestigious Cattolica university and practised as a magistrate before being selected as a prospective MP by the Christian Democratic Party that dominated Italian politics for 40 years.

Winners will follow in the footsteps of Toby Martinez de la Rivas, who was mentored by poet Gillian Allnutt before being selected to be part of Faber and Faber's New Poets project, which included participation in a UK tour and the publication of his first chapbook.

Plasmid clones were analysed by appropriate restriction enzyme analyses before being selected for sequencing.