Sentence examples for was practiced before from inspiring English sources

Within the artisanal movement called fine press printing, which celebrates bookmaking as it was practiced before mass production, Mr. Merker had few peers.

After all, the law only returns to what was practiced before the court's decision and gives women the right to sue.

For many years, I lived in Greenwich Village, where tolerance was practiced before many parts of the country knew what the word meant.

At Sunday's service, several worshipers said that in their view Catholicism as it was practiced before Vatican II was the true version of the faith.

Although by the 5th century ce the Chinese were informed as to the production of glass an essential material for the making of enamels and were already highly skilled in the working of bronzes and other metals, there is no evidence that the art of enamelling was practiced before the Tang dynasty (618 907).

The term Mozarabic was applied to Christians living under Islamic rule in Iberia after ad 711; the use of Mozarabic is thus something of a misnomer, since the rite was practiced before the arrival of Muslims as well as in territories that were never captured by them or were recaptured from them over the course of the centuries.

Performance on the repeated segment can be compared to performance on random, novel segments, i.e. those that have never been practiced before, to index segment-specific learning.

So-called pox parties, where parents would arrange play dates with infected children, were practiced before the introduction of the varicella, or chickenpox, vaccine in 1995.

Hammer welding had been practiced before by goldsmiths and, in spite of the difficulties due to gassing, was even used for joining copper to make, for example, tape by welding together strips cut from plate.

While not nearly as rigorous as real-life experience — things in combat always go wrong that haven't been practiced before — these exercises at least allow for experimentation, precisely because much less is on the line.

After 1500 ms, the outcome was presented in the form of a letter in the center of the rectangle (Figure 1C), whose significance had been practiced before the experiment.