Sentence examples for before recognising from inspiring English sources

Will he lead the party to electoral defeat in 2012 and fall on his sword afterwards, or will he stand down just before, recognising that only a fresh Socialist leader can stop a severe drubbing by the conservative People's Party?

Silva arrives and challenges both Carlos and Ernani to a duel before recognising the king and falling to his knees.

I was amazed by the inventiveness of my subconscious before recognising, almost in the same instant, that the nightmare's real author was Samantha Shannon.

Media – whether we think of wasli or canvas – can loom over an artist oppressively, paternalistically: you flee them or fight them before recognising them for your own.

The transition to a low carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground".

Silly poeticism, I thought, before recognising the echo of Tony Blair's "a new dawn has broken, has it not?" Then Cameron was on "a journey" and even claiming to be the first prime minister ever to have said he wasn't going to fight another election, which Blair said in 2004.

People who had never met before recognised each other as colleagues and in a few intense hours became friends.

Despite never having seen it before, I recognised it instantly.

Although I had never actually seen a tree of that kind before, I recognised them immediately.

However, the rules demand that before officially recognising a veteran, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) must first confirm that they are entitled to be commemorated.

Also, he was right in many things, recognising before the Gallipoli debacle what subsequent military historians have tended to confirm: that the port of Alexandretta, on Turkey's exposed underside, would have been a preferable launch pad for an assault.