Sentence examples for earlier state of from inspiring English sources

Look back at how Obama described the country in his earlier State of the Union addresses and it is hard not to notice a sentimental strain.

This is 1944, when so many people longed to believe that an earlier state of affairs would endure and be enjoyed.

The comparative method in historical linguistics is concerned with the reconstruction of an earlier language or earlier state of a language on the basis of a comparison of related words and expressions in different languages or dialects derived from it.

After the Republican midterm election gains, Obama did not dare utter the words climate change or global warming – in contrast to his earlier state of the union speeches, when he directly called on Congress to pass cap-and-trade legislation.

Obama has tended to avoid mention of climate change in these big prime time television events - though he talked up "clean energy" and "green jobs" in his four earlier state of the union speeches.

"Frontier markets are often in a much earlier state of economic development than larger emerging markets and may have only recently opened to foreign investing," said Mark Mobius, one of the pioneers of investing in the developing world, who directs emerging-market operations at Franklin Templeton, the fund management company.

That is, earlier states of the world can be seen as fixing all later states; but equally, later states can be seen as fixing all earlier states.

The former method works if we assume that earlier states of the universe are of comparatively low-entropy and that (relatively) later states are not also low-entropy states.

If we explain the contingent existence of the cosmos (or states of the cosmos) only in terms of other contingent things (earlier states of the cosmos, say), then a full cosmic explanation will never be attained.

These distinctions become complicated when androgen suppression is initiated at earlier states of the disease, or when it is given in response to molecular, not clinical, activity of prostate cancer.

The poet's dreams of riches are further suggested by the map that hangs over his head, entitled "A View of the Gold Mines of Peru", replacing the image of Pope that appears in the earlier states of the print.