Sentence examples for encounters before from inspiring English sources

They'd lost once to the side in 17 encounters before last night.

The law covers not only what happens in stadiums, but also behavior in pubs, encounters before and after games and Internet postings.

Runoff percolates through the soil, dissolving and collecting much of the salts it encounters, before finding its way into rivers or aquifers.

The last time two popes could even have met, other than in encounters before one of them became pope, was hundreds of years ago, the last time that one resigned.

Admiral Crowe, who retired from the military in 1989 and later served as ambassador to Britain, met in Moscow in June 1989 with his counterpart, Gen. Mikhail A. Moiseyev, chief of the Soviet General Staff, and signed an agreement intended to avoid or contain accidental military encounters before they could escalate into major confrontations.

We studied 39 encounters before and 55 after the intervention.

"This was something I'd never encountered before," the judge said.

"Occasionally you run into problems that you didn't encounter before," he said.

"Their size was a surprise, nothing we had encountered before, certainly not in a town center," Dr. Moeller said.

"It's something I've never encountered before," marvels Diane Dufour, the curator of the LE BAL show.

"This was a Christianity I had never encountered before," said Mr. Oren, 55, a marketing consultant in commercial construction.