Sentence examples for before the shutdown from inspiring English sources

Last month, just before the shutdown, the vehicle was repossessed.

Long before the shutdown, they were doing them harm.

The G.A.O., which produced the report before the shutdown began, is also mostly closed.

Making matters worse, they had started, before the shutdown, to turn on one another.

The agency said it continued to honor contracts and grants made before the shutdown.

Immigration court proceedings scheduled before the shutdown are being canceled, impeding green card applications.

Twitter's share sale may not be delayed as the IPO was filed before the shutdown.

Before the shutdown, most polls showed that voters would lean towards blaming Republicans, but not by much.

For years before the shutdown, the financially strained museum was operating at reduced strength, with curtailed hours and closed galleries.

Even before the shutdown, scientists were facing severe budgetary difficulties that restrict the kind of research that led to this year's Nobel Prize, Dr. Collins noted.

"Even before the shutdown, we thought housing data would be important, and it's something that the Fed is also looking at closely," he said.