prior condition

基本解释

Land requisition must take public benefits as a prior condition.
土地征用必须以公共利益为基本的前提条件。
BOT franchise agreement ranks as the prior condition and core part among the BOT package contracts.
在BOT一系列合同中，特许协议是BOT方式的先决条件与核心问题。
Information is a wealth. The evolution of information industry is an important foundation to promote the social productivity to develop quickly, also is a prior condition to attend the competition.
信息是财富，情报信息产业的发展是促进社会生产力迅速发展的重要基础，是参加竞争的前提条件。

Because not only did most economists miss the crisis, they committed the even more pernicious sin of missing the recovery, essentially taking the Dismal Science to quadriplegic status from its prior condition of being merely hobbled.
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Literally meaning ignorance, the term was originally used to describe the benighted condition of Arabia prior to the advent of Islam.
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They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak prior to the official announcement.
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