Come-before Definition

Come-before Sentence Examples

• My family should come before my duties.

• Amongst exports manufactured goods (silk, cotton and woollen goods, fancy wares, apparel, &c.) come before raw materials and articles of food (wine and dairy products bought chiefly by England).

• In the absence of a tribunal de commerce commercial cases come before the ordinary tribunal darrondissement.

• Mill's work at the India House, which was henceforth his livelihood, did, not come before the public; hence some have scouted his political writings as the work of an abstract philosopher, entirely unacquainted with affairs.

• Cases of simony have come before the courts in which clergy of the highest rank have been implicated.