Sentence examples for before the disaster from inspiring English sources

Haiti was overpopulated even before the disaster.

Business was down before the disaster.

But Haiti's institutions were weak even before the disaster.

She had been thinking of moving well before the disaster.

"I was a fisherman before the disaster," said Sato, 50.

Before the disaster, the country's politicians were known for their distance from the people.

TEPCO's share price is barely a tenth of what it was before the disaster.

His conclusion could also apply to what occurred long before the disaster.

"Nobody in the ancient world wrote about Pompeii, before the disaster," she tells me.

Nuclear energy had provided 30 percent of the nation's electricity needs before the disaster.

Even before the disaster, catches were declining from overfishing and global warming.