Sentence examples for before bothered from inspiring English sources

But he won the presidential election on May 23rd with 69% of the vote largely because people secular or apathetic or both who had never before bothered to vote for one mullah against another decided that this time the contest was different enough to be worthwhile.

Mrs. Willens tells the police she was going to wait until dark before bothering them.

The reserve defensive end Dave Tollefson said he never hesitated to call Umenyiora, though he might pause before bothering others.

Moss originally strained his left hamstring in training camp, but it felt better before bothering him again last week.

Before bothering to notify Gorbachev of the epochal news, Yeltsin called President George H. W. Bush, in Washington, leaving the job of calling Gorbachev to the junior partner, Shushkevich.

By contrast, Mr. Drexler danced with his buyout buddies for weeks before bothering to inform the board, which then blessed the $3 billion buyout without conducting an auction.

The next assault will come from Attorney General John Ashcroft, whose lawyers are drafting a law to enable the Justice Department to wiretap citizens for two weeks before bothering to ask a judge for a warrant.

When she felt something needed to be done, she organised everyone, storming into meetings and, sometimes even before bothering to remove her cycling paraphernalia, would intervene authoritatively, speaking clearly and logically and (very) loudly.

Give your local store a quick minute or two before bothering computer associates about when they will be getting their first Viliv shipments.

"How are you going to publish your work?" Then again, having a massive private repository of papers does allow a researcher to rapidly test hypotheses before bothering with libraries at all.

A new Lightbox-style photo viewer lets you enjoy all the image files you've saved from everywhere else, and a thumbnail preview version lets you see what's what before bothering to open them.