Sentence examples for grasped before from inspiring English sources

It is important that these initial considerations are grasped before more detailed planning and design takes place.

Amini understood something that she hadn't grasped before.

And even if you're an inveterate bardolator, you may find lines that you never fully grasped before making sense.

But Kadar's successors grasped, before any of their neighbours, what Gorbachev was saying to them: adapt or perish.

Vieira de Mello had come to understand what American planners had not adequately grasped before invading Iraq: outsiders almost never get the chance to revise a first impression.

What I hadn't grasped before this was that the event has always had a kind of offshore exemption from the prissy mainland rules of health and safety.

Victory was in the Bears' grasp before the turnovers, though.

They had both youngsters within their grasp before they signed their first professional contracts with other teams.

Spare a thought, too, for the Dutch, who had victory in the team showjumping in their grasp before Gerco Schröder had a fence down, and who felt robbed of gold in the individual dressage.

But almost 37 years after the break-in, two former New York Times journalists have stepped forward to say that The Times had the scandal nearly in its grasp before The Post did — and let it slip.

Steve Forbes: What has this market taught us about risk that perhaps some of these players didn't know before or didn't fully grasp before?