Sentence examples for before the mandates from inspiring English sources
Texas is fanatically devoted to football, but it also welcomed women's basketball long before the mandates of gender-equity legislation.
Interestingly, visual inspection of Fig. 2 indicates that the treated-control gap may have been increasing even before the mandates were enacted, especially for IL-MA-RI.
(2) State mandates may have a positive direct effect on SMBG; however, the size of this effect would depend on how many insurance policies already covered diabetic monitors and strips before the mandates.
Considering the larger size of the effect of similar mandates in the Medicare population, we would probably have found larger effects here had our data sources allowed us to restrict our analyses to those whose employers were subject to state mandates and whose insurance did not cover these preventive care before the mandates [ 21].
The NATO spokesman said it was possible to do it in a week, before the mandate of the 4,500-troop 4,500-troopires, "if we work hard".
Before the mandate was postponed, she had started searching for more affordable plans, and meeting with her company's clients to discuss potential price increases.
And the White House has some time to work with: weeks before the end-of-year enrollment rush, and months before the mandate's penalty is supposed to be levied.
But neither party prefers the existing arrangement, and most observers expect them to immediately begin positioning themselves for the next elections, which could come well before the mandated 2013 poll.
The extension, adopted unanimously by the 15-member Security Council after a day of tense diplomatic maneuvering, came hours before the mandate of a United Nations police-training mission in Bosnia was to expire.
Even before the mandate, the desire for a Jewish homeland prompted a small number of Jews to immigrate to Palestine, a migration that grew dramatically during the second quarter of the 20th century with the increased persecution of Jews worldwide and subsequent Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany.
