Sentence examples for before the strife from inspiring English sources

In limpid prose, Barnes creates a timeless moment of calm before the strife to follow.

As proof, they cite a phone call she made to her brother in Urumqi shortly before the strife began, warning him to stay off the streets.

It has massively increased its provision of food aid: whereas before the strife such aid went to 11,000 refugee families, it is now targeting almost 220,000 families.

Mr. Lott said he was determined to resolve the issue before the strife consumed the Senate from the outset, setting a tone that would not bode well for President-elect George W. Bush's plans and Republican efforts to keep control of Congress.

The Tsarnaev family had been battered by history before — by empire and the strife of displacement, by exile and emigration.

Posts on Twitter and Chinese microblogs documented some of the local reaction to the strife before being deleted from Chinese sites.

Lundqvist looked ahead to the end of the regular season Saturday and the brief satisfaction he will enjoy then before moving on to the strife of the playoffs.

Management, noting that many of them had decided to leave before the labor strife began, allows that two players have resigned and eight have initiated leaves of absence in connection with the negotiations or the lockout.

How before the hidden strife of his past and present caught up with Gordon, he gained a significant place in the political history of Indigenous Australia – an achievement his mother could not approve of because of her religious beliefs.

The strife in Libya before the Nato intervention in 2011 also had an impact, causing it to evacuate 36,000 people.

But the strife has continued.