• The SEC uncovered none of these scandals before the fact, though its hands are full reacting to them.

    FORBES: The Tiny SEC Grows

  • The same rule applies to a family leave or a distant vacation: Communicate your unavailability before the fact.

    FORBES: How To Handle Weekend Emails From The Boss

  • Who better to decide (before the fact) whether a doctor visit is worth the cost than patients themselves?

    FORBES: Contrary To What Nicholas Kristof Tells You, Healthcare Is Not Free

  • Laws serve to define the crime and the punishment but before the fact preventions are virtually unheard of due to laws.

    FORBES: Searching For Hard Data On Guns And Violence

  • Before the fact, there are an enormous number of potential bad guys.

    CNN: Why FBI and CIA didn't connect the dots

  • Criminal prosecution after the fact doesn't effectively prevent atrocity before the fact.

    NPR: Nuremberg's Legacy, 60 Years Later

  • According to James Schlesinger, former defense secretary and energy secretary, the service chiefs were not specifically polled before-the-fact on the question of whether they would support such a treaty -- an example of the perverse effect of the Goldwater-Nicholls Act in downgrading the role of service chiefs.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • The pope could actually be dead for hours, and the world fully informed of the fact, before the news came officially from the Vatican press office.

    CNN: Pope's resignation a new angle to a tough news beat

  • Now, although the managers dismiss as irrelevant Ms. Lewinsky's job search before December, the fact is that Ms. Lewinsky had contemplated looking for a job in New York as early as July 1997, and her interest was strengthened in early October when Ms. Tripp told her that it was unlikely that she'd ever get another job in the White House.

    CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement

  • The problem was that this induced more people to submit sell orders to the NYSE before they caught onto the fact that NYSE prices were not reflective of current conditions.

    FORBES: Sometimes Markets Can Be Too Slow, Not Too Fast

  • However, the committee said the fact the programme had not been piloted before launch did present additional risks - illustrated by the fact that automated checks to determine whether people said to have been placed in jobs had actually stopped receiving benefits were not put in place until March.

    BBC: Job centre

  • What is generally perceived before-the-fact as risky is easy to spot as risky.

    FORBES: Connect

  • It is likely to attract careful management attention before-the-fact and hence is unlikely ever grow into a dangerously sized exposure.

    FORBES: Connect

  • People harken back to some golden age before the industrial revolution, oblivious to the fact that people died from things like tuberculosis (Henry David Thoreau) and tetanus (his brother).

    FORBES: Can A Rose Catch Your Cold? Threat Of 'Killer' Viral Plant Gene Is Latest Anti-GMO Rant

  • The share dealings indicate an urgent need to raise cash, an observation supported by the fact that, just before the end of last year, Vivendi abruptly sold 9% of its stake in Vivendi Environnement, bringing in euro1.2 billion.

    ECONOMIST: Vivendi Universal

  • The results before December 2011 were calculated after the fact and weren't earned by any outside investors.

    WSJ: When Cheap Funds Cost Too Much

  • TEMPLE-RASTON: The committee made much of the fact that in the days before declaring bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers steered millions of dollars to departing executives.

    NPR: Lehman CEO Testifies On Capitol Hill

  • Adding to the confusion was the fact that the Philippines has never before conducted an impeachment trial, so there is a distinctly ad hoc approach to procedure.

    ECONOMIST: The Philippines

  • The nonsensical structure of Welsh rugby seems summed up by the fact that Gatland has been appointed before the man who will become his boss, the yet-to-be-named Elite Performance Director.

    BBC: The tests facing Gatland

  • If Microsoft can do that before the final verdict is delivered, the findings of fact could be expunged - and a slew of possible lawsuits from competitors, founded on the legal recognition of Microsoft as a monopoly, could be avoided.

    CNN: From the Web

  • And that he was giving you the on his honest to God recollection when he testified before the grand jury and the FBI, and the fact that he forgot a bunch of things he may have been told by other people doesn't mean that he wasn't telling the truth.

    NPR: Libby's Attorneys Pick at Russert's Account of Leak

  • In the end, the Court will have to balance the alleged lost competitive opportunities the Players are suffering against the (1) reduced injury risk and wear and tear the NFL lockout currently affords, (2) the lack of urgency five months before the season begins, and (3) the fact that Brady v.

    FORBES: The NFL Labor War: Here's What Happens Next

  • After the meeting, which ran at least 30 minutes longer than it was scheduled, sources said the administration will wait a few days before making a decision, hoping that the fact that such a meeting was held will push Arafat into action.

    CNN: Bush 'disappointed' in Arafat

  • Disclosure goes to the heart of the truthfulness with which a nominee engages the American people, and it assures us that he in fact has comported himself before the election with the high moral character we associate with a future president.

    CNN: Why won't Romney release more tax returns?

  • Nor how much time there was, in fact, before the scourge arrived at her own door.

    NPR: E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and 'The March'

  • In fact, before the hearing, Bowers said that there is a broad consensus that this testing is reliable and valid.

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  • And he will draw attention to the fact that before MMR was introduced 14 people died of measles a year in England and Wales.

    BBC: Blair signals support for MMR

  • The fact that before becoming Vice President Biden had one of the most pro-Iran voting records in the Senate has done nothing to mitigate this perception.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Biden's lost cause

  • In fact, before the end of the 21st century, global population will be declining because birth rates will be less than the so-called replacement level, which is currently about 2.1 children per woman.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Even before the operation began, in fact, simply the news of the pending arrival of additional troops had a positive impact on the ground, as various extremist groups abandoned their positions in the capital and in some cases fled the country.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Signs of the surge��s success

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