Sentence examples for before the appointments from inspiring English sources

Before the appointments there were 755 peers, making the Lords one of the largest legislatures in the world.

So far there has not been vocal criticism of the nominees, whose backgrounds were reviewed for a month and a half before the appointments were formally announced.

While the top party leaders ultimately decide who should succeed them, the route will be long, convoluted and completely opaque before the appointments are announced in fall 2012.

The Security Council has until Thursday to comment on the names proposed by Secretary General Kofi Annan before the appointments are formally made.

As Bello explains this week (in a column written just before the appointments were made official), they portend a big change from the course Ms Rousseff pursued during her first term.Brazil's GDP report today underscores just why change is needed.

He must have known before the appointments were made, for instance, that Condoleezza Rice's name fits exactly into the meter of "The March of the Siamese Children" from "The King and I" ("Condoleezza Rice, who is cold as ice, is precise with her advice") and that Alberto Gonzales rhymes with "loyal über alles".

I recommend deciding some things BEFORE the appointment.

In 1856 he was appointed to the professorship of natural philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen, but before the appointment was announced his father died.

The Valium is typically given the night before the appointment, while the sleeping pill is taken about an hour before the appointment.

Weeks before the appointment, the Racicots shared a fish dinner with the Bushes at the White House.

I literally had about 40 minutes back at home before the appointment.