Sentence examples for without first speaking from inspiring English sources

She said there was no way that Distelmans would approve the euthanasia request without first speaking with the patient's family.

Jennifer Palmieri, a spokeswoman for Mr. Edwards, said he had not wanted to decide the women's fate without first speaking to them personally.

I had pleaded with the hospital not to take any decisions without first speaking to me, but they ignored me, as they had done since she was admitted as an emergency six days earlier.

Years ago -- in fact, in my first-ever blog-post about American poetry in 2005 -- I argued that poets could not honestly speak about poems without first speaking honestly about the sociology of poets and indeed even a topic as esoteric as the publishing industry.

He was held for two days without representation, first speaking to a solicitor on the third day, who said he had found Raghip distressed and disoriented.

"I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.

Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own government.

But some practitioners figure we should also transmit signals; that we should try speaking without first being spoken to.

When we first spoke, Gyory was without a horse in the race.

d) Speaking to the President without first being spoken to.

No. 4: "Please do not speak to a lady at the bar without first being spoken to, it isn't that kind of place".