Sentence examples for earlier done the same from inspiring English sources

Anthony M. Tola, above, drew a media spotlight when he poured a bottle of merlot into a toilet at his New Brunswick, N.J., restaurant and said he had earlier done the same with six bottles of Dom Pérignon -- flushing away $1,000 in sales.

MPs had earlier done the same, in the face of opposition from many Conservatives, the Church of England and other faith groups.

William Shea, who helped bring the Mets to New York as an expansion team 10 years earlier, does the same with the Islanders.

The Kentucky plaintiffs made such a claim in this case, 20 years after the Hawai'i Supreme Court considered same-sex marriage based on the premise of sex discrimination, and the Hawai'i court noted that the earliest cases, as much as another 20 years earlier, had done the same.

A week earlier he had done the same in the Estadio Bernabéu, during an evening in which Barcelona destroyed Real Madrid's pretence of a challenge to their title.

Of course, many lawyers at the Justice Department and elsewhere disagree, noting that prosecutorial discretion is pervasive, that there isn't enough money to prosecute all violators, that the president will continue to prosecute criminals and illegal border crossers, and that earlier presidents have done the same thing.

A hundred and twenty years earlier, she would have done the same thing with heads.

In addition, researchers now argue that other mainland wolves may have done the same in earlier winters, when ice formed more commonly between the island and Canada, but went undetected.

And after learning that Mr. Bush had done the same earlier in the day, Mr. Kerry's aides accused the president of changing his tune to blunt Mr. Kerry's attack.

Kali had done the same earlier that day.

But then as the week unfolded, Forbes.com identified three earlier books in which Ambrose had done the same thing.