Sentence examples for before the ministers from inspiring English sources

Mr. Barroso's comments were made before the ministers had agreed on the elaborate compromise late Friday.

But hopes of a breakthrough were fading even before the ministers sat round the table.

His contrite appearance before the ministers was not quickly shuffled to the video archives.

The draft text prepared before the ministers arrived in Doha, which forms the basis of the negotiations, speaks of phasing out agricultural-export subsidies.

The prime minister's new cabinet, though not necessarily composed of doves, will need to be briefed before the ministers are likely to vote in favor of unilateral action, analysts said.

Hours before the ministers met to discuss a crisis on which the Association of Southeast Asia Nations ASEANN) has barely commented, hundreds of Rohingya and Bangladeshis landed in Indonesia's Aceh province.

"Most of that's been reported before," the minister told the Sydney-based radio station.

The day before, the foreign minister was in New York asking the UN Security Council for help to train Libyan teams in protecting oil ports and civil airports.

There followed the briefest pause before the minister looked up and said, "We do".

On February 25th he released the ministry's annual economic survey, a day before the minister, Pranab Mukherjee, presented the budget.

Even before the minister's resignation, Mr. Aso's approval ratings had dipped to single digits.