Sentence examples for before ideas from inspiring English sources

With that elevation comes a poetic correlative: images before ideas, lush language before shaped story lines.

In his view, historical inertia played a major role, and the historical forces that moulded thought and behaviour were laid down centuries before ideas like capitalism and communism were invented.

Tabula rasa, ( Latin: "scraped tablet"—i.e., "clean slate") in epistemology (theory of knowledge) and psychology, a supposed condition that empiricists attribute to the human mind before ideas have been imprinted on it by the reaction of the senses to the external world of objects.

Yes, they can be unfair and, yes, they exhume a reductive and potentially troublesome commitment to identities before ideas, which would have to be extrapolated, surely, to ethnic, religious, even working-class representation, given that poor, white males must hardly find their mirror image in the coalition's and Labour's rich, white ones.

It's also one of those 'why didn't anybody think of this before?' ideas.

My message to entrepreneurs is that in today's world, more than ever before, ideas are not chasing resources.

Oliver Fetzer: One of the things I realized while working with BCG is that very large life science companies are often monolithic and it takes a long time before ideas can really gain traction and get implemented.

"But before ideas such as this can be tested, we need to accurately predict where a woman is in her timeline to menopause".