Sentence examples for before constituted from inspiring English sources

The crowds attending the funeral of the Kurdish leader, Mashaal Tammo, a prominent figure who had escaped an attempt on his life only a month before, constituted some of the biggest gatherings in weeks in the nearly seven-month uprising against Mr. Assad.

On his new view, facts are, as before, constituted by objects and their properties; but what about propositions?

All have been keen to come before a properly constituted court of law in order to answer any charge that the government may want to bring against them.

But the court also made clear that only significant, direct quotations of the "dramatic focal points" of a book before publication constituted a violation.

The involved procedures should have agreed technical, methodological and legal prerequisites before being constituted within an individual subspecialty.

The ophiolitic rocks emplaced to the Lake Van Basin along the thrust planes during the Paleotectonic period (before Neogene) constituted the rugged mountainous morphology in the region (Yılmaz et al., 1993; Parlak et al., 2000).

In this context, GII-4 norovirus strains circulating before 2002 constituted a neutral network of viruses which were antigenically indistinguishable from each other, although there was significant sequence diversity among them.

The bulls were divided into a reference population and a test population according to birth date, i.e., 3995 bulls born before January 1 2005 constituted the reference population and the remaining 1648 bulls constituted the test population.

Of the 150 patients, 60 who underwent biopsy after conventional US examination (before June 2012) constituted the US group, because the CEUS was not performed for lung lesion until June 2012 in our department.

The predictive ability of each model was assessed using a validation procedure in which the whole dataset was divided into two parts: 3084 Holstein animals born before October 1 2001 constituted the reference population and 1333 animals born after that date, the test population.

We laughed for a bit about my food choices she was appalled to learn that I thought rice and beans plus salad constituted dinner but before long we had to turn to a graver topic.