Sentence examples for before he adopted from inspiring English sources
Coulibaly was a petty criminal before he adopted radical Islam, with a psychiatric report describing him as having an "immature and psychopathic personality".
His first effort a cartoon of Benjamin Disraeli appeared in the British literary magazine Vanity Fair in 1869, shortly before he adopted the signature "Ape".
Having moved to Reading in 1969, aged nine, the Belfast-born star talked of how his schoolfriends didn't understand him for about two years before he adopted an entirely English accent.
Since being elected in October, Ms. Rousseff has mostly reassured investors that she is not looking to steer the country further to the left than under Mr. da Silva, who faced those same concerns when he was elected in 2002, before he adopted a pragmatic approach.
A punk-rock androgyne in black singlet and trousers, Prina gave us a programme of virtuoso Gluck arias, mostly composed in the 1740s, before he adopted the stripped back, mature style that was to have so profound an influence on operatic history.
Yet before he adopted the chartbusting persona of Alvin Stardust, who resembled a glittery 70s version of the 50s rocker Gene Vincent, he had already had a trial run at pop stardom as Shane Fenton, lead singer with Shane Fenton and the Fentones.
And, along with 52% of American voters, he ecstatically embraced the Presidential victory of Barack Obama the night before, and he adopted his new leader's motto for this fight: "It's time for a change".
Cone jogged out of the visitors' bullpen, rather than the dugout, to pitch the bottom of the first inning, a routine he adopted before starting against Texas this week; this might help him stay loose before the first inning.
Just as he cannot offend too many social conservatives and Tea Party members who see bipartisanship as spinelessness, Mr. Romney must also win over moderates and independents who might look favorably on the sort of political approach he adopted before he ran for president.
He was put into two foster homes before he was adopted at 20 months old by a Catholic family.
It turned out that Mr. Baroni had been born in Jacksonville -- just before he was adopted by the Baroni family in Hamilton.
