Sentence examples for earlier made clear from inspiring English sources

Fetid air — which the Minister had earlier made clear he did not want to breathe — invaded the vehicle.

Yesterday, Mr Johnson, 40, had run to ground but earlier made clear that he intended to stay as MP for Henley at the next election.

There was ample reason for that assumption, since Chief Justice Roberts had earlier made clear his distaste for precedents in which the court has gone beyond a statute's text to infer a basis for a lawsuit.

Though the administration had earlier made clear that it would not follow the urging recently given in the Washington Post by William Perry, Mr Clinton's defence secretary, and Ashton Carter, his chief North Korean adviser, for a pre-emptive strike on Musudan-ri, the launches have strengthened the hand of those arguing for a more muscular approach to the North Korean problem.

However, she had earlier made clear she was aware of sentiment in the UK about immigration, and her promise to stick to an ambition of reducing the net migration figure to the tens of thousands would require cutting the numbers from all over the world.

His remarks earlier made clear that both sides remain exactly where they've been for the last three months.

Both had earlier made it clear that they favored a raise for the more than 1,200 state judges, who have not had a pay increase since 1999.

Barack Obama earlier made it clear that he wanted Beijing to restrain North Korea, while Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, said last night: "It's very important for China to lead".

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's decision to throw the book at Microsoft was not unexpected: his formal "findings of law" issued earlier made very clear that he viewed the company's alleged transgressions in the harshest light.

A final decision had been taken and government ministers, perhaps learning from the dramatic brinkmanship of five years earlier, made it clear there was no room for the BBC to negotiate on the principle.

She had earlier made her position clear by opposing the renewed Reciprocity Treaty of 1887, signed by Kalakaua, granting privileged commercial concessions to the United States and ceding to them the port of Pearl Harbor.