Sentence examples for before the customs from inspiring English sources

Wilkinson said that before the customs investigation, Pérez Molina had made it clear he was not intending to extend the Cicig's mandate.

Shortly before the customs agency disclosed on Saturday that China had indeed run a $7.2 billion deficit in March, Mr. Chen declared that the deficit was "only a blip on the radar and will in no way hamper the country's strong economic growth".

Before the Customs counters stood the familiar, skinny figure of the taxi driver, fiddling with his flimsy sarong.

Long before the Customs Officers arrived on the scene, dozens of cases and bottles of whisky were "spirited" away.

You've seen him before, near the customs booth, bypassing the lines as you stand waiting... and waiting... and waiting to hear those magical words from the agent, "Welcome home, Mr. Jaccoma".

In 1957, Dr. Gajdusek — who had searched the Hindu Kush, the Amazon jungle and finally the mountain valleys of New Guinea hoping to find remote tribes with unique diseases to study — realized that the victims had all participated in "mortuary feasts" in the decades before the custom was suppressed in the 1940s by missionaries and the Australian police.

Finally, all prerequisites that researchers need before the custom-built discrete choice modeling process are prepared.

Now imagine customs quietly installing Stringray or similar IMSI-catcher devines in the international arrivals areas of airports to capture the mobile number, device ID and other information from every phone (since many people turn their phones on upon arrival to make calls or check emails/social media before reaching the customs hall where phone use is banned).

Hours before the deal on the customs fines was announced, a coalition airstrike killed five Afghan police officers, a reminder of other divisive issues that have marred the relationship between Washington and Kabul.

But if you sleep on the airplane and the flight attendant wakes you up suddenly upon landing, you may find yourself at the customs station before you realize you've left your laptop and your passport behind.

It's designed to fit in the palm of your hand so you can sort your do out at your seat before facing the masses in the customs queue.