Sentence examples for pre-dated from inspiring English sources

Lynch noted that Sprewell's arrival pre-dated Thomas's hiring by the Garden.

The Wall Street Journal said the transactions under scrutiny pre-dated US sanctions against Russia.

Many of the leaflets the Tories produced pre-dated that promise.

Many of the country's problems pre-dated Mr Fernández, and were even worse before him.

That, however, was an era that pre-dated the television money-fuelled gravitational pull of foreign players to England.

This description covers a slew of supernatural-themed books – many of which, it's worth emphasising, pre-dated Buffy's demise.

And these infrastructures often included elements – parties, unions, churches, civil society organisations – which pre-dated the civil rights struggle itself.

Jaden:  "The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life" and ancient texts; things that can't be pre-dated".

But in fact many of the crises – floods, horsemeat, badger culling – that paved the way to Paterson's sacking pre-dated his arrival at Defra in September 2012.

"Inquiries in the original 2007-09 investigation pre-dated much of what we now know about Savile and his pattern of abuse.

"Although the authors report that childhood maltreatment is associated with smaller hippocampus regions, it is possible that these abnormalities pre-dated and possibly facilitated maltreatment exposure.