Sentence examples for was a precondition to from inspiring English sources

Stripping away the humanity of Jews, Slavs and other "undesirables" was a precondition to murdering them.

There was a precondition to our joining their table: they weren't interested in talking about violence.

Blair felt, perhaps rightly, that having a supportive media was a precondition to electoral success.

If there was a precondition to holding elections, we would need to talk about the reformation of the Army.

"I wasn't aware that being a trial lawyer was a precondition to being a district court judge, particularly in the District of Columbia," said Jan Baran, a partner at Wiley Rein who hired Petersen to his election law group out of law school and worked with him for three years.

"That was a precondition to the job," said Greg Rothwell, who stepped down this year as the agency's chief contracting officer and now works for Booz Allen Hamilton, which recently won a $250 million, five-year technology consulting contract from the department.

But dialogue is a precondition to understanding.

Driving engagement, whatever the method, is a precondition to deeper learning.

The official ending of the Ba'ath party's monopoly on power is a precondition to democratisation.

"Ending capital punishment should not be a precondition to enter the European Union.

"It cannot be a precondition to enter into that agreement," he said.