Sentence examples for hitherto, even from inspiring English sources

Palatial architecture aimed at effects never contemplated hitherto; even domestic architecture for the first time had palatial pretensions.

The government argues that the bill would allow more intelligence information to be heard in court than hitherto, even though it would be heard in secret.

The dynamics of a hitherto even contest were altered with 15 minutes left though when Bradley Davies was sin-binned for a tip tackle on Donnacha Ryan, bringing back unpleasant memories for Welsh supporters after the events of the World Cup semi-final when captain Warburton was red carded.

This led to declining industrial production in Norway, the loss of skilled labour, and unemployment (hitherto unknown) even among scientists and highly educated engineers.

This final instalment takes continuing advantage of Burma's opening to head into the country's north, a region hitherto isolated even by Burmese standards – geographically by dense jungle, politically by a simmering civil war.

In "Gorbachev: The Man and the System" (1989), Ilya Zemtsov and John Farrar wrote: "Thanks to his diligence, the Ukrainian opposition was broken with a ferocity hitherto unknown even in the Soviet system".

Whereas knowledge derives from virtues that aim at truth, understanding derives at least partly from different virtues, special ones hitherto "unanalyzed, even unrecognized" (Zagzebski 2001, 248).

Even hitherto uneconomic hydrocarbons such as tar sands are becoming more attractive.

Countries who hitherto could not even dream of such ambitions have become space powers.

But the circumstances force me to write to you things which I have hitherto hesitated to even touch upon.

And with anaemic demand sapping metals prices, mining companies have been hit hard: on January 14th shares of Glencore and Anglo American, FTSE-listed miners, both fell 9%.Ominously, even hitherto strong economies are showing signs of weakness.