Sentence examples for it then existed from inspiring English sources
Thomas characterized the whole fire-eater cause as reactionary in purpose (the preservation of the South as it then existed), but revolutionary in means (the rejection of the existing political order).
Maybe Newton's laws accurately described the universe as it then existed.
The rape joke as it then existed was all about punching down.
He explains that the change may well kill the film industry (as it then existed): People will no longer buy tickets at the box office of movie theatres.
There was even a time when oxygen levels were so high that they were toxic to much of life as it then existed.
In November 2010, Mr. Mueller toured Silicon Valley and briefed executives on the proposal as it then existed, urging them not to lobby against it, but the firms have adopted a cautious stance.
It is therefore postulated that when the large tree component of a savanna system is substantially reduced, the nature of the system is changed, and that it then exists in a different state [18].
It then exists in this state until such changes accumulate in the environment that the species becomes extinct.
It then exists in this state until (unfavorable) environmental changes accumulate so that the macroevolutionarily frozen species becomes extinct.
In my briefings to Congressional overseers from 2001 to 2005, I continually made the point that we simply could not achieve the program's operational effect under FISA procedures as they then existed and it is clear that Congress ultimately agreed.
