Sentence examples for had been ordered before from inspiring English sources

Fishing boats had been ordered before the storm into anchorages, and the authorities detained several fishermen who had defied the warnings.

The sources reported that the Jordanian reply said that a cease‐fire had been ordered before the Iraqi warning and had been received.

Donna Giancontieri, an executive assistant to Patrick A. Heaney, the town supervisor, said the signs had been ordered before Mr. Fredette's fall.

The Herald, a mouthpiece for Mr. Mugabe and ZANU-PF, reported Thursday that China had said the shipment had been ordered before the elections and had nothing to do with "what was taking place in Zimbabwe at the moment".

A court clerk in Kentucky at the centre of a storm over gay marriage has been ordered before a judge - after defying a Supreme Court ruling and claiming she was acting under "God's authority".

The order lasts 10 days and does not apply to detainees who had been ordered deported before they were arrested in the March 6 raid at the Michael Bianco Inc. factory in New Bedford.

The hotel served 6,000 meals on Thursday, from lunches for presidents to dinners for Secret Service agents; as an extra precaution, most of the ingredients had been ordered in before the World Economic Forum started.

British officials announcing the new controls made no reference to the Detroit attack, and noted that the policy review that prompted the new restrictions had been ordered in November, before the airliner bombing attempt.

Lawyers for Mr. Weston's parents, Russell E. Weston Sr. and Arbah Jo Weston, as well as his sister and brother-in-law, April and Ron Callahan, said the family members had been ordered to appear before a grand jury on Thursday morning.

Another NATO officer, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that Mullah Zakhir, the Taliban's military commander for southern Afghanistan, had been ordered back to Pakistan before the Marja offensive.

11 counterterrorism strategies, the original "24" (which had been ordered as a series before the terrorist attacks, and given its premiere eight weeks after them) was attention-getting and controversial for its portrayal of ticking-time-bomb situations and for sometimes brutal scenes of torture at the hands of Bauer.