Sentence examples for incapacitated before from inspiring English sources

Ginny Carroll, the Lockwood Lodge marketing director, said there is an industry-wide problem of people waiting until they are physically incapacitated before looking into assisted living, which is geared to people who enjoy relatively good health.

It is common practice for judges to ask defendants whether they are receiving medical care, and might be mentally or physically incapacitated, before pleading guilty to federal crimes.

They make sure that their victims are incapacitated before attacking, as they cannot take on healthy ants.

(Participant C) Patients were often almost completely incapacitated before any formal health care was sought.

The dry-mouthed fear that can be incapacitating before a battle affects Junger's soldiers as well as Marlantes' marines — as it did King Harry's men the night before Agincourt half a millennium ago, and as it undoubtedly was for the Spartans awaiting the onslaught of the Persians at Thermopylae.

The authors wrote: "The Columbia depressurisation event occurred so rapidly that the crew members were incapacitated within seconds, before they could configure the suit for full protection from loss of cabin pressure.

"In the case of fire the first response is to pull all the main [electrical] busses and restore circuits one by one until you have isolated the bad one," he said, adding that the crew could have been incapacitated by smoke before they could land, leaving the plane to fly on for six or more hours on autopilot, before eventually crashing.

If a person has shot at you and missed, incapacitate her before she can fire again.

When the shooter stopped to reload, according to police reports, an engineering student named Jon Meis sprayed him with pepper spray, incapacitating him, before grabbing him in a chokehold.

Mr. Obuchi was Japan's first prime minister to suffer a catastrophically incapacitating illness before any transition arrangements could be made, revealing a system badly unprepared for such an eventuality.

So you need to kill or incapacitate them before they can use their own weapon," says neurobiologist Wulfila Gronenberg of the University of Arizona, Tucson, who has studied the triggering system of the trap-jaws.