Sentence examples for before militants from inspiring English sources

The night before, militants laid siege to the American Consulate in Benghazi, killing the ambassador and three other Americans.

Hours before, militants tied a bomb to a donkey cart and led the donkey to a checkpoint in front of the home of one of President Hamid Karzai's most important political allies in Kandahar, the former governor of the Spinbaldak district.

I had never heard of Rahman Baba before militants blew up his shrine in Pakistan a few days ago.

A few months before, militants had bombed the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63, including 17 Americans.

By Shahnaz Habib March 9, 2009 I had never heard of Rahman Baba before militants blew up his shrine in Pakistan a few days ago.

The mother of one of two Japanese hostages being held by Isis has made an emotional appeal for his release just hours before militants have threatened to execute him unless Japan's government pays a US$200m ransom.

It was not long before militant artists began demanding that leaders of the arts establishment withdraw their support of the compromise and insist that no such restriction be included in the legislation drafted this year to reauthorize the endowments.

The year before, armed militants had undertaken a bloody campaign to unseat the Mubarak government through attacks on ministers, security forces, Christians and tourists.

The day before, PKK militants in Mardin province (bordering Syria) killed a policeman.Is the new "Kurdish opening" yet another scheme devised to buy calm ahead of next year's presidential elections, which Mr Erdogan is hoping to win? "Absolutely," responds Azad Aslan, a 21-year-old labourer who attended the funeral.

Three years before militant members of the Students for a Democratic Society split off to form the Weather Underground Organization in 1970, North Vietnamese and Cuban officials were influencing radical antiwar strategy through foreign meetings.

As some may know, I tried very hard as governor in 1993 to go back to the state flag that flew over Georgia during my childhood -- before militant segregationists replaced our flag with a more Confederate image in the 1950's, in defiance of the civil rights movement and federal demands for desegregation.