Sentence examples for before we admit from inspiring English sources

How many troops have to be on the ground before we admit that we have "ground troops" in Iraq?

"How many more names will be added to the wall before we admit it is time to leave?" Representative Robert Wexler, of Florida, demanded at the first of three hearings before House and Senate committees.

Week in review, page 10 THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN How many times do we have to see the play about the effects of gas prices going up and down before we admit that it always ends the same way -- badly?

Fuller argued that the Scottish merchants would undercut and impoverish English ones, and that the markets could not handle such an influx, saying that it was "fit that we seek room to place them in before we admit them".

How many communities have to be broken before we admit what has been staring us in the face all along: that this is a health problem, not a criminal one.

Mr Dupree then goes on to talk about the extra allowances that she would need to be given, saying she needs "the absolute maximum limit of whatever concessions are allowed", before asking: "Yes, why did we admit her?" She went on medical leave in March 2013, and claims the college told her she would have to pass extra exams with higher pass marks if she was to return.

What else has to happen to the world economy before we finally admit that this kind of financial innovation is guilty until proven innocent?

The British population is six times larger, and before the latest small additions we admitted just 431 Syrian asylum seekers in the most recent quarter.

When the Guardian and Busta's press officer arrive, we are scrutinised before we're admitted, the publicist's London accent apparently doing the trick.

Rice also has "funds available to bring to campus those students residing in the U.S. … whom we are most interested in admitting" but "before we extend formal admittance offers to them," Faubion notes.

"We're not operating under the same rules as before," Jersin admitted.