Sentence examples for final act before from inspiring English sources

Congressional Democrats were consumed with self-congratulation when, in a final act before handing over the gavel, they finally repealed the "don't ask, don't tell" policy at the end of 2010 — a full 17 years after Bill Clinton resorted to it under pressure and long after most Americans had stopped caring.

It proved the Frenchman's final act before he was substituted.

Clemens's presence, in his final act before life as a perpetual court case, helped lift the Yankees to the playoffs.

Here, his final act before Ross Barkley replaced him was to try to win a penalty with a dive.

Paloma's final act before her demise, she declares, will be to complete her home movie, which shows "why life is absurd".

Farrell's final act before being replaced was to fell Habana with a high, late challenge after the wing had chipped the ball ahead, although the fall to the ground was unnecessarily theatrical.

The introspective concerns of today's Westminster have no purchase on the public – does anyone outside the political elite know why the government tried to unseat speaker John Bercow as one of its final acts before calling the election?

DENVER — In one of their final acts before wrapping up the Colorado legislative session on Wednesday, lawmakers approved a bill allowing immigrants who are in the country illegally to obtain driver's licenses, making the state one of only a handful to have passed such a measure.

In one of his final acts before leaving office as Russian president this year, Dmitry Medvedev ordered a review of the sentences imposed on Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and 30 others.

This was one of the League's final acts before it practically ceased functioning due to the Second World War.

ESPN provided classic, comical statistics early Thursday, before the final act: bounces before serve (advantage Mahut, 1,541-975).