Thus Michael Brown, the director of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, castigating those who failed to evacuate New Orleans in advance of hurricane Katrina, asserted that the death toll was "going to be attributable to a lot of people who did not heed the advance warnings".
Struggling with diminishing success to assert his leadership in advance of a parliamentary impeachment session, President Abdurrahman Wahid demanded legal action against the national police chief, Gen. Suroyo Bimantoro, after he refused to step aside when the president fired him.
The latest engagement, some analysts say, reflects the agendas and ambitions of the politicized Thai military, seeking to assert its influence and leverage in advance of a parliamentary election expected in June or July.
While fraudulent transactions are certainly unfair, simply asserting that buying access to information in advance of others is somehow unfair does not necessarily make it illegal.
Some participants in the session asserted, however, that though the Defense Department leadership may have known in advance of the proposed order, they did not.
Trump went on Twitter hours before the new Congress convened to assert that the partial government shutdown was the result of Democratic posturing in advance of the 2020 presidential election.
It asserted that Watkins and Maldon were checking out the course for security and other reasons in advance of a possible presidential trip.
And the company asserts that its lightning networks could have given residents of Springfield, Mass., a 50-minute warning in advance of a tornado that struck on June 1.
It was chosen in advance, of course.
Public opinion is in advance of Parliament.
Pack well in advance of leaving.
