Sentence examples for before the clauses from inspiring English sources

Because new contractual provisions are not easily retrofitted into old bonds, it will take years before the clauses are included in the entire stock of debt.

Before the clause was inserted, it would have been possible, in theory, for EDF to sell its majority stake in Hinkley to its Chinese co-financiers, the state-backed CGN firm.

Be sure you are willing to pay the penalty before using the clause and terminating the contract.[1].

Officials now have two weeks before the original clause is implemented.

This explains why it passed — one day before the citizenship clause was ratified — the Expatriation Act, allowing Americans to shed their American or foreign citizenship.

May added that the government is committed to a bill on investigatory powers "early next year" in order that it can receive Royal Assent before the sunset clause in the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act comes into effect at the end of 2016.

After all, Congress was already granted the power to regulate interstate commerce in the clause just before, so why single out bankruptcy for separate treatment?

Lord Falconer, the constitutional affairs minister, issued the gag under a never-before-used clause in the original 1967 law setting up the ombudsman.

He wrote, "Under this rule of construction the residual clause should be read to give effect to the terms 'seamen' and 'railroad employees,' and should itself be controlled and defined by reference to the enumerated categories of workers which are recited just before it; the interpretation of the clause pressed by respondent fails to produce these results".

Here, the word "but" opposes and negates the clause that comes before it indicating a dissimilar notion.

Former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who was deputy prime minister under Cameron's coalition government, said a general election must be called before Article 50 is evoked - the clause that would set in motion Britain's withdrawal from the EU block.