Sentence examples for before this catastrophe from inspiring English sources

Let's learn about life before this catastrophe, when animals and plants first colonized land.

MR. GREEN -- Look, we've seen how Mayor Giuliani, for his flaws before this catastrophe -- and I've stood up to him more than any, but I'll stand with him if it helps kids and it helps rebuild our city -- he has shown how you need to have experience in government to bring private and public sectors together, Washington, Albany and the city together.

Haiti had the highest rates of child and maternal mortality in the western hemisphere even before this catastrophe hit.

Well before this latest catastrophe, tourism had fallen off badly here, dropping significantly after violent pre-election clashes in 1997 and only lately beginning to pick up.

Firstly, she frames the short narrative with a description of the children's life before the catastrophe; this frame acts as a preview to some of the themes developed in the main narrative, which has a markedly fairytale style.

The left-wing government we had before was a catastrophe," he said.

During the last year, and before the catastrophe, it was starting to do so.

But there was much to admire about Korczak in his life before the catastrophe.

There are actually more people living in the city now than before the catastrophe.

My new book, Song for an Approaching Storm, is set in the 50s, two decades before the catastrophe.

Unobtrusively set on the eve of the civil war that started in 1991, "Secrets" ends before the catastrophe begins.