Sentence examples for before the expulsions from inspiring English sources

Before the expulsions, the academy was one of the largest communities of Tibetan study anywhere.

According to Ocha's Rance, the number of aid workers in Darfur has fallen from 17,700 before the expulsions to just 5,540 in November last year.

(Several had left Spain before the expulsions of 1492, and were thriving in Europe as properly minted Christians, or, as the new Pléiade edition chooses to put it, a Christian family "anciennement convertie").

Over the weekend before the expulsions were announced, the European diplomat received four phone calls from a senior State Department official calling for his nation to expel more Russians.

The term paradise is often used as a synonym for the Garden of Eden before the expulsion of.

Anthony Blanche extols its virtues with his affected stammer: "Real g-g-Green Chartreuse, made before the expulsion of the monks.

Four more centuries passed before the expulsion of the last emir from Granada, in 1492, but Lewis gets through them fast.

Helena Interrogating Judas," by Miguel Jiménez and Martín Bernat around 1485-87, just a few years before the expulsion, depicts a legendary scene in which St. Helen questions a kneeling and weeping Jewish man who is believed to know where the true cross of Jesus is buried.

The more prominent of the two diplomats stationed in Washington, Gustavo Machín Gómez, flew back to Cuba before the expulsion order because his wife was having a baby, officials said.

A magnificent multivolume Hebrew Bible on display, she pointed out, was begun in Ocana in Spain in 1491, just before the expulsion of the Jews; it had to be completed in Evora, Portugal, in 1494, just before Jews were expelled from that country as well.

Before the expulsion in 2002 of Jim Traficant, a toupeed Ohio Democrat who was indicted for bribery and racketeering, only one other House member had been expelled since the civil war.Public trials for both Mr Rangel and Ms Waters are the last thing Democrats want in the run-up to the much feared mid-term elections.