Sentence examples for prior existence from inspiring English sources

This success is due to the prior existence of a book.

These days, the system is so linked with Google that it's difficult to imagine it having a prior existence.

This curious affliction would be alarming — am I going to wake up speaking Swedish and having forgotten my entire prior existence, like that poor fellow of tabloid fame?

Some political scientists cleverly introduced the idea of the "state-nation", a community that came into existence because of the prior existence of a distinct state.

But such self-denial would already require a moral transmutation requiring the prior existence of the higher reasoning and selflessness that it is meant to help create and foster.

The final closure of the Tethys Sea so severely defaced evidence of earlier closures that the prior existence of the Paleo Tethys Sea was not generally recognized until the 1980s.

The latter is not the type of priority that Khayyam has in mind; if essence is to be essentially prior to existence, they both could not have been emanated from God and one should be a byproduct of the other, i.e., an ontological level of reality.

For example, the house is composed by bits of wood, stone, and iron, and these parts existed prior to the existence of the house.

Typically, (e.g., Gibbard 1975, Noonan 1993, Johnston 1992), arguments that c and s1 are not identical run as follows: c exists prior to the existence of s1 and hence the two are not identical.

If the "claim" of the invention covers something that already existed prior to the existence of the patent a term known as "prior art"—then the patent would be deemed invalid.

It was verified that the distributions of effective priors were included within the distributions of the corresponding priors, discarding the existence of unexpected interactions between priors.