Sentence examples for before the descent from inspiring English sources

It was a rest before the descent.

Before the descent into Drumnadrochit, we pause at Grotaig pottery and cafe, a great spot for a break.

Léon Alla, who added that there had been gunfire exchanges in a town just to the north, shortly before the descent of the Ouattara forces into the capital.

Before going into free fall myself, I'll churn my legs, cartoon-style, and try to catch a moment of poise before the descent.

The most important member of the family of Susanoo was the god Ōkuninushi no Mikoto, the great earth chief, who assumed control of this region before the descent to earth of the descendants of the sun goddess.

Also on board is a Chinese Mars orbiter, Yinghuo-1, which was due to be released before the descent onto Phobos.

As the truck crested the last long ridge before beginning the descent toward Manhattan, the air changed, as did the airwaves.

The men, accompanied by Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, sealed themselves into a Russian Soyuz capsule that undocked from the orbiting lab before beginning the descent.

And besides, given how long planes spend circling London before landing, the "descent" into Heathrow is the perfect opportunity to knock off some of those classics I have always promised myself I will read.

I asked former NASA astronaut and Boeing Starliner Crew and Mission Systems Director Chris Ferguson how this compared to the Space Shuttle's egress system, and he said that it should be faster and easier to use in case it's ever required, since the basket-based system used with the Shuttle program involved packing multiple crew members into each pod before beginning the descent.

A man stands in tears before Rogier van der Weyden's The Descent From the Cross.