Sentence examples for exists prior from inspiring English sources

Typically, (e.g., Gibbard 1975, Noonan 1993, Johnston 1992), arguments that c and s1 are not identical run as follows: c exists prior to the existence of s1 and hence the two are not identical.

"Time exists prior to all things in time" (Elem. Theol. § 53).

It is found that precursory microcracking exists prior to most rockbursts, which could be captured by the microseismic monitoring system.

There is no gender identity or anything like a pure material substrate that exists prior to these performances.

The essential is the result of art and of artists having expressed essential meanings in perception, and not something that exists prior to art.

Many important recrystallization texture components in metals such as aluminium originate from nuclei in which the mobile high-angle boundary exists prior to, or is formed in the early stages of, annealing.

For example, the house is composed by bits of wood, stone, and iron, and these parts existed prior to the existence of the house.

But legends of the mountain existed prior to this.

The pieces exist prior to and independently of their assembly.

Thus, the protosignals exist prior to receivers' noticing them.

I mean that was the situation that existed prior to 9/11.