Sentence examples for before it was understood from inspiring English sources

Until we test our beliefs, we can't say for sure if we have leeches or we have aspirin" — an effective remedy that was used before it was understood.

Before it was understood to be a global event, fishermen in Peru and Ecuador used the term to describe the warm currents that sometimes arrived around Christmas time and seemed to drive fish away.

However, it took another century before it was understood that ICUAW can be evoked either by critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) [ 2], by critical illness myopathy (CIM) [ 3], or by both [ 4] during the course of critical illness.

Replication is essential to TE selfishness and before it was understood that elements that move by "cut and paste" (as opposed to "copy and paste") mechanisms can by various tricks increase in numbers (e.g., Spradling et al. 2011), they would not have been considered selfish.

Victims were taken first to the Luxor International hospital, before, it is understood, Michael Rennie and the pilot were airlifted to a hospital in Cairo, 320 miles to the north along the river Nile.

What Arno experiences, defending The Cantos to his baffled friends, is what Eliot meant when he recommended that poetry "communicate before it is understood".

Amartya Sen once expressed regret that the theory of social choice does not share with poetry the amiable characteristic of communicating before it is understood (Sen 1986).

Seeking to maintain the faith as it was understood before the landmark Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965, traditionalists view modern reforms as the work of either foolish liberals or hellbent heretics.

But well before this awakening it was understood that between bouts and countless rounds of sparring, boxers were putting their brains in peril.

Hawkeye Pierce Alan Aldaa) did give a passionate kiss to Hot Lips Houlihan (Loretta Swit) before he flew away, but it was understood that these characters were moving on.

Before entering law school -- it was understood that he would, like his father, an Internal Revenue Service administrator, get a law degree -- he backpacked through Asia and Eastern Europe, rekindling his interest in foreign politics.