Sentence examples for in existence before from inspiring English sources

"The basic components of providing job training, childcare and transportation are sound principles that were never in existence before that.

Of the more than 12.4 million copies in existence before 1945, hundreds of thousands are thought to survive.

Plainly, the Florida Supreme Court created a new rule, one that had not been in existence before Election Day 2000, for resolving disputes concerning the appointment of electors.

First, he said, Rutgers was one of eight colleges in existence before the American Revolution, all of which, like Harvard, Yale and William & Mary, have long been superior academic institutions.

Yet this Hebrew term of a heavenly kingdom was recorded in books of the Prophets long in existence before the bar mitzvah of Jesus, when he would have studied them.

While there were other enterprise social networking apps in existence before Slack first launched in 2013 — Yammer, Hipchat and Socialcast among them — nothing had struck a chord quite as Slack did.

Micah Rasmussen, a spokesman for the governor, said that the account had been in existence "since before Woodrow Wilson was a governor" and that the governor had given the boxes "in the spirit of good will and good wishes".

Standard Italian, as a written administrative and literary language, was in existence well before the unification of Italy in the 1860s.

But Berners-Lee didn't invent hypertext – Ted Nelson did in 1963 and there were lots of hypertext systems in existence long before Berners-Lee started thinking about the web.

"You can't hold it against a person that they're involved in a profession that's been in existence since before Jesus walked around in his sandals," said Corrie Northan, 46, a bartender at the Bucket of Blood Saloon in Virginia City, the county seat.

If a particular software patent's claims can be distilled to a general concept that was in existence long before someone thought to implement the concept in software, there is a good chance it is an unpatentable abstract idea.