In the past

Usage examples of prior.

But I wonder how someone sane could immerse himself in such insanity, especially when there was no evidence of antisocial behavior prior to the killings.

Beauty is a secondary: the more primal appetition, not patent to sense, our movement towards our good, gives witness that The Good is the earlier, the prior.

In this sense, the Mandala is an archetypal form generated by unconscious nature well prior to the evolution of human consciousness.

Quality and Quantity, though attributive, are real entities, and on the basis of this reality distinguishable as Quality and Quantity respectively: then, on the same principle, since Motion, though an attribute has a reality prior to its attribution, it is incumbent upon us to discover the intrinsic nature of this reality.

If we are agreed that Quality and Quantity, though attributive, are real entities, and on the basis of this reality distinguishable as Quality and Quantity respectively: then, on the same principle, since Motion, though an attribute has a reality prior to its attribution, it is incumbent upon us to discover the intrinsic nature of this reality.

No witnesses had seen the autogiro prior to its take-off from the ruins of the mansion.

Ivan stopped at the door of the Baston crypt, a tomb dug and christened after Bishop Claire Baston, a former des Gardiens Abbot of three centuries prior.

For those who are not up on the vernacular of a prior generation, I should explain that a blivet is a five-pound container with ten pounds of excrement.

William Paley was trained in mass brainwashing techniques at the Tavistock Institute prior to being passed as qualified to head CBS.

By radio-carbon date-checking against trees of known age - notably the bristlecone pine which grows in the White Mountains of California, some of which are known to be over 6,000 years old - it has been found that all radio-carbon dates prior to 1000 BC are too young.

Colegrove come from a full Court, the tradition of stare decisis, that prior decisions be allowed to stand, might have prevailed, and the prior ruling would not have been reconsidered.

He felt that Gray was taking advantage of her, exploiting the fact of his prior marriage to that other Chaia Martine, the one who had died in the Copper River.

If you can answer that question in the affirmative, then do so explicitly, by demonstrating how their opinions in this case can be reconciled with their opinions in prior cases as well as with their extrajudicial writings.

Miss Mallender prior to her arrival in Rhodes on the seventeenth of October?

A study conducted by UNICEF and Tufts University immediately after the Gulf War found considerable evidence of preexisting malnutrition among Iraqi children as a result of that prior era of neglect.