Sentence examples for before the contests from inspiring English sources
Candidates who do not do well raising money months before the contests begin could find it increasingly difficult to stay in the race because the other major contests come so quickly after.
Those who thought that Hart would be out of the race in short order (even before the contests began) were probably indulging in wishful thinking — he's at his happiest, and perhaps best, being the guerrilla candidate, the challenger of the powers that be, and he doesn't have anything more interesting to do.
On December 1 , 2007 well before the contests were held, the Rules and Bylaws Committee voted to refuse to seat either state's delegation at the August 2008 convention in Denver.
With his overwhelming victory in the Mississippi primary, Barack Obama's lead in pledged delegates is now wider than it was on March 3, before the contests in Ohio and Texas.
All males were weighed to the nearest 0.1 milligram using a Mettler AE 50 balance approximately one hour before the contests were conducted.
These were all villages where a solid foundation for sustainable development had been laid before the contests were held.
Wasps were weighed to ± 0.01 mg on the day before the contest and contestants within each replicate chosen to be of closely similar mass (± 0.08 mg), so as to minimize size asymmetries that are known to affect contests [ 7, 10– 10].
Catch-hold styles require the contestants to take a prescribed hold before the contest begins; often this grip must be maintained throughout the struggle.
