Before all stops and affricates, it is pronounced as an oral vowel + nasal consonant, with appearing before most consonants, while appears before p or b. For example,

Before the addition of the virama, writers had no way to designate coda consonants.

Before the spelling reform of 1996, only two consonants were written if the sequence was followed by a vowel ( e. g. Schiffahrt but Sauerstoffflasche ).

Before front vowels, all Asante consonants are palatalized ( or labio-palatalized ), and the plosives are to some extent affricated.

Before consonants and in word-final position it is dropped, for example far, farm.

Before coronal consonants, this produced Alderney, alter, bald, balderdash, bold, cold, false, fold, false, falter, gold, halt, hold, malt, molten, mould / mold, old, palsy, salt, shoulder ( earlier sholder ), smolder, told, Wald, Walter and wold ( in the sense of " tract of land ").

Before then, it was known as Kallístē ( Καλλίστη, " the most beautiful one "), Strongýlē (, " the circular one "), or Thēra.

Before Lavon's resignation, the incident had been euphemistically referred to in Israel as the " Unfortunate Affair " or " The Bad Business " (, HaEsek HaBish ).

Before the 1940s, the mosque was also called Masjid-i-Janmasthan (,, translation: " mosque of the birthplace ").

Before entering national politics, Leterme served as an auditor at the country's Court of Audit (, ).

), " Before and After Avicenna: Proceedings of the First Conference of the Avicenna Study Group " ( Leiden: Brill 2003 )

In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

* The Day Before Spring ( 1945 ), with Frederick Loewe

Before then, the government was a Crown colony consisting of either colonial administration solely ( such as the Executive Council ), or a mixture of colonial rule and a partially elected assembly, such as the Legislative Council.

Before that time, all sacrifices were counted as sacrifice hits ( SH ), which included both sacrifice flies and bunts.

Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game ( 2005 ), by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England ; recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position.

Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.

* Before his death Joshua delivered a farewell address to the Israelites ( 23 – 24 ), just as Moses had delivered his farewell address ( Deut.

Before the Brunei People ’ s Party electoral success, a military wing had emerged, the North Kalimantan National Army ( Malay abbreviation TNKU, Tentera Nasional Kalimantan Utara ), which saw itself as an anti-colonialist liberation party.

Before Broadway became one-way, the main bus routes along it were the New York City Omnibus Company's ( NYCO ) 6 ( Broadway below Times Square ), 7 ( Broadway and Columbus Avenue ), and 11 ( Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues ), and the Surface Transportation Corporation's M100 ( Kingsbridge ) and M104 ( Broadway Branch ).

Before the Norman conquest in 1066, justice was administered primarily by what is today known as the county courts ( the modern " counties " were referred to as " Shires " in pre-Norman times ), presided by the diocesan bishop and the sheriff, exercising both ecclesiastical and civil jurisdiction.

Before 1938, the federal courts, like almost all other common law courts, decided the law on any issue where the relevant legislature ( either the U. S. Congress or state legislature, depending on the issue ), had not acted, by looking to courts in the same system, that is, other federal courts, even on issues of state law, and even where there was no express grant of authority from Congress or the Constitution.

Some are non-verbal ( Marmaduke, The Angriest Dog in the World ), some have verbal thoughts but are not understood by humans, ( Garfield, Snoopy in Peanuts ), and some can converse with humans ( Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Mutts, Citizen Dog, Buckles, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine and Pooch Cafe ).

The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal ( Johns Hopkins ), ch.

Before the impact, models of Jupiter's atmosphere had indicated that the break-up of the largest fragments would occur at atmospheric pressures of anywhere from 30 kilopascals to a few tens of megapascals ( from 0. 3 to a few hundred bar ), with some predictions that the comet would penetrate a layer of water and create a bluish shroud over that region of Jupiter.

He also provided the voice of Jack Skellington, the main character in Tim Burton's animated Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), and has since reprised the role in many other subsequent productions, including the Disney / Square video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II and the Capcom sequel to the original film, Oogie's Revenge.

) Before a major fire, typical chaparral plant communities are dominated by manzanita, chamise ( also called greasewood or Adenostoma fasciculatum ) and Ceanothus species, Toyon ( which can sometimes be interspersed with scrub oaks ), and other drought-resistant shrubs with hard ( sclerophyllous ) leaves ; these plants resprout ( see resprouter ) from underground burls after a fire.

Before the development of X-ray diffraction crystallography ( see below ), the study of crystals was based on their geometry.

Before the development of silicon power rectifier diodes, cuprous oxide and later selenium was used ; its low efficiency gave it a much higher forward voltage drop ( typically 1. 4 to 1. 7 V per " cell ", with multiple cells stacked to increase the peak inverse voltage rating in high voltage rectifiers ), and required a large heat sink ( often an extension of the diode ’ s metal substrate ), much larger than a silicon diode of the same current ratings would require.

Before the year 1830 drew to a close, both Marshal Sucre and Simón Bolívar would be dead ; the former, murdered ( on orders from a jealous General Flores, according to some historians ), and the latter, from tuberculosis.

Before the Israeli military occupied Sinai during the June 1967 War ( Arab-Israeli war, also known as the Six-Day War ), a single Egyptian governorate administered the whole peninsula.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

Before the accelerometers are mounted on the platform, the direction of their sensitive axis must be accurately determined.

Before the dust has settled or the blood congealed, editorials, speeches, and civil-rights commissions are loud in the land, demanding to know what happened.

' Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq Dr. Muayad Said described the structure before the filling of the reservoir: ' It has an octagonal body enhanced by alcoves, some of which are blind.

The prefix AD and the suffixes CE, BC or BCE ( Common Era, Before Christ or Before Common Era ) are dropped.

: Before you are dead.

Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon.

Before the thirteenth century, beer was flavoured with plants such as yarrow, wild rosemary, and bog myrtle, and other ingredients such as juniper berries, aniseed and ginger, which would be combined into a mixture known as gruit and used as hops are now used ; between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century, during which hops took over as the dominant flavouring, beer flavoured with gruit was known as ale, while beer flavoured with hops was known as beer.

Before the end of the Civil War and the introduction of the 1662 prayer book, something like a half a million prayer books are estimated to have been in circulation.

" Generally, comics are not allowed to include such words as " damn ", " sucks ", " screwed " and " hell ", although there have been exceptions such as the September 22, 2010 Mother Goose and Grimm in which an elderly man says, " This nursing home food sucks ," and a pair of Pearls Before Swine comics from January, 2011 with a character named Ned using the word " crappy ".

Before use, hanks are wound into balls in which the yarn emerges from the center, making crocheting easier by preventing the yarn from becoming easily tangled.

Before beginning Ideen Husserl's thought had reached the stage where " each subject is ' presented ' to itself, and to each all others are ' presentiated ' ( Vergegenwartigung ), not as parts of nature but as pure consciousness.

Before anyone can move, tiles are drawn and laid out across the board.

Before Cantor, there were only finite sets ( which are easy to understand ) and " the infinite " ( which was considered a topic for philosophical, rather than mathematical, discussion ).

Before 630 million years ago, boundaries on the geologic timescale are defined simply by reference to fixed dates, known as " Global Standard Stratigraphic Ages ".

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American ( Indian ) and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U. S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.

Before 1971, a municipality could be called a town ( stad ), a köping or a rural municipality ( landskommun ); present municipalities which used to be towns are still commonly called towns.

Before their nature was understood, galaxies (" spiral nebulae ") and globular clusters were also classified as nebulae, but no longer are.

Note that complete electronic copies of the Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10 are available online, as are most of the other proceedings from the Nuremberg Trials.

Before Brabantio reaches Othello, news arrives in Venice that the Turks are going to attack Cyprus ; therefore Othello is summoned to advise the senators.