However, where a violation has continuing effect , the Committee has at times examined events that predate a state party's accession to the Optional Protocol.

In fact, indigenous communities have unbreakable bonds of relationship with nature as well as ancient wisdom that predate the organization of global nation states.

For example, these fish predate on sea urchins, and when the fish were all gone, all anyone ever saw underwater was just acres and acres of sea urchins.

Take Eric's Random Writings as an example, it is not a blog per se, yet many posts there predate blogs and blogging, so you can see it as the blog of that time.

Others suggest the technology moved west from the Nile Valley, although the Iron Age in the Niger River valley and the forest region appears to predate the introduction of metallurgy in the upper savanna by more than 800 years.

Theoretically, the Constitution confirms the primacy of constitutional laws over all other laws, but in practice this does not always happen because there still exist old laws that predate the Constitution of 1990, based in the inherited Portuguese system of colonial rule.