Sentence examples for before eminent from inspiring English sources

Columbia said on Thursday that it was willing to restart negotiations with the holdout businesses before eminent domain proceedings began.

The university actually owned the stadium for nine years before eminent domain laws forced the university to sell it back to the city of New York for $2.5 million in 1971.

(Ratliff) * 'ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON' CONCERT (Sunday) By the time you get to Avery Fisher Hall, 15 high school jazz bands have been through semifinals, playing Ellington before eminent judges to earn a spot among the top three that you'll hear in concert.

New York's Times Square is a good example: before eminent-domain purchases, 42nd Street was in poor shape.

Before Marceau, eminent performers, such as Étienne Decroux and Jean-Louis Barrault, had researched the art, and delivered suitably esoteric presentations.

My interests and values are not theirs and I can only hide and fake it for so long before that eminent divide becomes obvious.

She's got him into Quarry Bank, a solid grammar school that shortly before had produced two eminent intellectuals, the future Labour cabinet ministers Peter Shore and Bill Rodgers.

George's uncle Thomas Hibbert (1710-1780) was known as 'the late Mr. Thomas Hibbert, who had for forty or fifty years before been the most eminent Guinea factor in Kingston, and a most respectable character.' The family owned several large estates in Jamaica.

First comes the commanding chamber-music pianist Menahem Pressler, who plays Beethoven's Sonata in A-Flat Major, Op. 110, and Debussy's "Estampes" before joining his eminent friends in the Emerson String Quartet for a performance of Dvořák's Piano Quintet.

An entirely different approach had been offered a generation before by the eminent 19th-century physicist Lord Kelvin, who headed a Royal Commission investigating a 1900 outbreak of arsenic poisoning among Manchester beer drinkers.

As found within the comparison of suspension cultures developing torpedo-shaped embryos vs. being arrested in the pre-torpedo stage, the differential expression pattern was eminent before the differing phenotypes were realised.