Sentence examples for it has prior from inspiring English sources

CBS will not televise any of its Saturday games from April 21 through June 16; it has prior commitments to such longstanding moneymakers as the National Basketball Association playoffs.

In 1954, Preston reached the FA Cup final and the nation held its breath, just as it had prior to Matthews's fulfilment with Blackpool a year earlier.

Iran has repeatedly said it wants to return to the previous output levels it had prior to the west's sanctions on its nuclear activity.

The law made the city liable only if it had prior notice of a sidewalk defect.

After many billions spent, new departments created, the system seemed as permeable as it had prior to 9/11.

"The economy is performing a little better than expected, albeit it is slow relative to the rate it had prior to the referendum," Carney said.

The Koch-era law, known as the pothole law, made the city liable in sidewalk cases only if it had prior notice of a sidewalk defect.

He admitted it was a relief to emerge from the curse of England's player-of-the-year award, which had been threatening to undermine his form as it had Prior's in 2013.

In 1979, in an attempt to clamp down on litigation excesses, the "pothole law" was passed, which made the city liable in slip-and-fall cases only if it had prior notice of the specific defect in the sidewalk.

Although figural art was never to flourish in western Turkistan as gloriously as it had prior to the Arab invasion, there was a revival under the Mongols in the form of book illuminations.

In Kyrgyzstan the national coordination structure lost the authority that it had prior to 2008, when it was directly responsible to the President's Office.