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In a statement, English Heritage said a panel had reassessed the existing shortlist and that factors such as a limited association with London and the pre-existence of other plaques were taken into account.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2012

Such a change would not, as your article stated, require "a most awkward reinterpretation of Mormon teaching on pre-existence."

From Time Magazine Archive

Few theological animals went into the hencoop, which was a theory of the pre-existence of souls.

From Time Magazine Archive

He also maintains that belief in Jesus' pre-existence was not a late development, but rather part of the earliest material in the New Testament.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it supposes the pre-existence of the natural laws of health, to which the diet is made to conform.

From A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People by Spooner, Lysander