Sentence examples for before nations from inspiring English sources

How long will it be before nations ask why they have so many campuses?

But the Antarctic Treaty was concluded before nations had developed vested interests there.

Historically, such new weapons are always used at least once or twice before nations realise it is too dangerous and start relying on diplomacy".

LONG ago, long before the earth had acquired its hordes of friends, long before nations were blaming each other for destroying the environment, Théodore Monod was giving warnings about the growing menace of pollution.

The "two degrees" refers to the Copenhagen target of keeping the Earth's average temperature from rising 2C (3.6 F) above the levels that existed before nations began industrialising in the late 18th century.

After the diplomatic debacle in Copenhagen in December 2009, when trust between countries broke down, it took three UN meetings in Bonn before nations finally started negotiating properly again.

His previous books described his travels through the crossroads - Central Asia, India and the Middle East - where several civilisations, in the days before nation-states, met and flourished.

"The reason for this is simple: once before, our nation was forced to repudiate the supreme court with mass bloodshed.

Mr. Moyers, he added, helps in "enlightening our democracy" — a Carnegie mission — by putting "before our nation questions that we should discuss".

As I have said before, our nation did many things right in those difficult years.

The EU was formed after the countries of Western Europe had stopped fighting each other, but the AU is being mooted before African nations have reached this happy state.