Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?

Let me state my case before both him and you.

Or at least stated a policy preference before one had been decided by the president.

I must state the condition of my mind and feelings before the war, which startled the world from its satisfied life in September, 1939.

Blunt as always, he had a proposition stated before I sat down on the stool across from him.

Couture had stated before the bout it would be his final fight.

And this has always been the position of Parliament, even if it is not explicitly stated in the resolution now before us.

Unless stated before each game, the misdeal rule is not allowed.

"I thought that it was cool to smoke, and grown up," she stated in a deposition a few months before her death.

Vinokourov stated before the season that 2011 would likely be his last year as a professional rider.