Sentence examples for earlier tour from inspiring English sources

But while we undertook the 2007 trip without players from the three leading clubs in the country, the earlier tour had parallels with this summer's visit.

In an interview, he also expressed frustration that four years after his earlier tour in Afghanistan, people still were not coming forward with information against Taliban members.

So New Yorkers might want to concentrate not so much on Oyster as on an earlier tour of duty that Mr. Walder did at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

But while the North Koreans seemed cheerful during an earlier tour of a giant shopping mall, at the palace they appeared somber and reluctant to speak, even to each other.

On Monday, during an earlier tour of his waterlogged nation, Mr. Ma was seen promising a bulldozer to a man who was searching for the body of his father.

On an earlier tour in Korea in 1988, Dr. Cohen joined a program that helped poor local children with heart diseases, operating on 35 of them and sending others to American hospitals.

This is not to be confused with their two earlier tours, whose names are better left unsaid.

The diplomats, including the American ambassador to the United Nations, Susan E. Rice, had earlier toured southern Sudan to monitor preparations for the voting, which many analysts fear could reignite a north-south civil war if it is mishandled.

Where the band's earlier tours with heterosexual, macho, ex-Free, bluesy shouter Paul Rodgers felt wrong, the black leathered, bequiffed, nail varnished Lambert is every bit the showman that was Mercury.

The Queen - without the Duke of Edinburgh, who was undergoing an exploratory operation - had earlier toured the major new extension to the broadcaster's London headquarters and even listened to a live performance by the pop group The Script.

Sgt Maj Robert Mansel, 37, from Swansea, of 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, lost comrades in earlier tours and is relieved to be returning from this one without any casualties.