Sentence examples for before we acquired from inspiring English sources

This was our code, before we acquired statehood in 1960.

Before we acquired Mr. Bloomberg, New Yorkers enjoyed destroying the careers of some truly terrible rich candidates.

Ted Pile, a spokesman for Alpha Natural Resources, said his company was required to honor an employment contract "put in place before we acquired" Massey.

"These undisclosed problems from projects that were in trouble before we acquired them are threatening to destroy our company," said Stephen Hanks, president of Washington Group, which is based in Boise, Idaho.

It's called The Old Blue Last and it used to be a brothel before we acquired it.

While we may not perceive something as a cow prior to acquiring the word 'cow,' we are surely aware of cowness before we acquire the linguistic expression, just as we are aware of and can discriminate shades of red even before we acquire the names of some of those shades.

Before each t-AFM map, we acquired amplitude-distance curves both on not-etched and etched regions and the amplitude setpoint as well as the free amplitude were chosen accordingly, in order to operate in the repulsive interaction regime [12] on both surfaces.

As we said before, we can not acquire the memory and CPU consumption on Spots and, as a consequence, we measure only the time spent by each processor to run its work section.

In "Philosophy and Sense of Life" (1966b), however, Rand argues that (i) we start forming our emotional outlook on life our "sense of life"—long before we have acquired conscious convictions about the world, and that (ii) most people's sense of life is closer to the truth than their conscious convictions.

But if we all took a moment to stop and really listen to each other, we might learn to love the eclectic and varied accents that make up our multicultural world… rather than basing our trust on implicit biases that we acquire even before birth.

"They would have to change the law in New York State before we could acquire tracks outside," he said.