Sentence examples for prior in time from inspiring English sources

I mean that to this particular man who now exists actually and to the corn and to the seeing subject the matter and the seed and that which is capable of seeing, which are potentially a man and corn and seeing, but not yet actually so, are prior in time; but prior in time to these are other actually existing things, from which they were produced.

The hierarchy of land uses is still employed, tacitly if not expressly; the maxim is still occasionally quoted, and at least in close cases the land use that is prior in time will prevail over subsequent ones.

One well-established rule of contract construction is that "[i]n bilateral contracts for an agreed exchange of performances,... where one party's performance is to be rendered prior in time to that of the other, it is a constructive condition precedent to the latter's duty". Lawrence P. Simpson, Handbook of the Law of Contracts § 152 (1965).

A secondary aim was to highlight digitally distracted behaviors of pedestrians in two high traffic volume signalized intersections in New Haven, CT where prior point-in-time surveys have been conducted and known fatalities have occurred.

The sites chosen for this study were intersections based on the city's prior point-in-time surveys as well as their high-volume pedestrian, cyclist, and auto traffic with intersection A located in the Medical District and intersection B located in the downtown area deeming them a prime location to conduct this study.

So in this sense actuality is prior even in time.

Still, our method does not require prior segmentation in time and space.

In hindsight, however, they are able to fairly accurately rate how much they knew at a prior point in time.

To reduce the convergence time required to get the analyzed fields of the outer LETKF, initial seeds for the outer LETKF were obtained at several prior points in time from the initial time of the outer LETKF from analyzed fields of JMA's mesoscale model.

Through this procedure we obtained measures of how the subject's estimates of the prior developed in time.

The researchers were unable to examine SES at prior points in time that are likely more relevant to the development of breast cancer.