Sentence examples for means before the from inspiring English sources

It was only then, retrospectively applying our rusty Italian, that we realised antipasti means "before the meal".

In Japanese diplomatic parlance, that means before the arrival of President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea.

Way way back, which means before the financial sector imploded, it wasn't Wall Street bonuses and vampire squids that excited the most fury.

As compensation orders are made on or shortly after conviction, "up-front" presumably means before the defendant has been found guilty.

This doesn't mean before they get their licenses; it means before the application for a license can even be entered into the system.

Military officials later suggested that the women — who among them had 16 children — had all been stabbed to death or had died by other means before the raid, implying that their own relatives may have killed them.

"You mean, before the Constitution was adopted," Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said.

What did Mr. B. mean before the Public Printer got to work on him?

I mean, before the crop of British movie stars came, I was playing all those parts.

I mean, before the war, who would ever have imagined bicyclists helping pedestrians, or pedestrians embracing bicyclists?

I mean, before the advent of tourism, how else other than war would disease spread if not via commerce?