Before its American usages, the expression had been used to describe the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland by Edward du Bois under the pseudonym " A Knight Errant " in 1807, and in a poem describing the English county of Surrey in 1839.

Before He left them He promised that His peace would be their portion to abide in their hearts and minds.

Before the expulsion, Palestinians accounted for a large portion of the people living in Kuwait.

Before 1841, the territory roughly corresponding to Southern Ontario in Canada belonged to the British colony of the Province of Upper Canada, while the southern portion of Quebec and the Labrador region of Newfoundland and Labrador belonged to the colony of the Province of Lower Canada ( until 1809, when Labrador was transferred to the colony of Newfoundland ).

Before the All-Channel Receiver Act of 1962 required US television receivers to be able to tune the entire VHF and UHF range ( which in North America was NTSC-M channels 2 through 83 on 54 to 890 MHz ), a set-top box known as a UHF converter would be installed at the receiver to shift a portion of the UHF-TV spectrum onto low-VHF channels for viewing.

Before the Spanish evacuation, Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania agreed to divide the territory and transfer the major part to Morocco and the remaining southern portion to Mauritania.

Before the boundaries between the two Carolinas were fixed ( several changes took place between 1772 and 1805 ), the northern portion of York County was part of Bladen County, North Carolina, and in 1750 it was included in the newly created Anson County, North Carolina ( the first land grants and deeds for the region were issued in Anson ).

Before Oklahoma's admission as a state, the county was the entire small portion of Indian Territory allocated to the Seminoles.

Before the arrival of European-American settlers during the 1830s, the northeastern portion of the future Blackford County was briefly the site of an Indian reservation for Chief Francois Godfroy of the Miami tribe.

Before 2010, the CDP was divided, with a portion of it becoming Burke Centre CDP ; the population remaining in the Burke CDP was reported at 41, 055 in the 2010 census.

Before 1844, the north of the parish of Wokingham was part of a detached portion, or exclave, of the county of Wiltshire, the border of which is some to the west.

Before exiting the jugular foramen, the tympanic nerve enters the petrous portion of the temporal and ascends via the inferior tympanic canaliculus to the tympanic cavity.

Before then, Kingston was the upper class portion of Plymouth.

Before 1542 the works principally used by apothecaries were the treatises on simples by Avicenna and Serapion ; the De synonymis and Quid pro quo of Simon Januensis ; the Liber servitoris of Bulchasim Ben Aberazerim, which described the preparations made from plants, animals and minerals, and was the type of the chemical portion of modern pharmacopoeias ; and the Antidotarium of Nicolaus de Salerno, containing Galenic formulations arranged alphabetically.

Before, after, and during presentations team members can help identify each other's flaws during their portion of the sales pitch.

Before Fuller's termination, attempts were made by former President Jimmy Carter to broker an agreement that would allow Fuller to retire with his $ 79, 000 salary intact ; when Fuller was found to have violated the non-disclosure portion of this agreement, he was subsequently fired.

Before the 1960s, only a small portion of public school teachers were unionized.

Before the autumn season, the apical portion of stem is removed along with the whorled leaves. It is called haak there.

Before Illyria can detonate again, Wesley uses a Mutari generator to extract a large portion of her power, effectively ending the threat.

Before the war reached its final stages, they selected a hospitable planet and enclosed a portion of its surface inside a time-dilation field.

Before completion of the Indiana portion of I-94, the freeway ended at the present exit 1.

Before that period it was included under the general name of Oenotria, which was applied by the Greeks to the southernmost portion of Italy.

Before the construction of the barrier in 1995, this portion of SR 37 was three lanes with the middle lane alternately serving as a passing lane for each direction.

( Before this 2004 discovery, the only known Gray Bats lived at a site known as Chalk Mine, located in the northeastern portion of the county.

Before the end of 2004, the portion of the Jungbu Naeryuk Expressway running through Mungyeong was completed.

Before we comment further on these pathological conditions, we should remember that changes in the state of the hypothalamus within physiological limits distinguish sleep from wakefulness.

Before considering these elements in more detail, an additional requirement should be stated.

Before commercial Internet access became common, these networks of BBSes provided regional and international e-mail and message bases.

Before that, it was about 7 censuses, most part of these previous censuses was undertaken during Soviet ( USSR ) control.

) 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 production of written languages, dance was one of the methods of passing these stories down from generation to generation.

Before these modifications, the design of their shoulders was closer to instruments of the violin family.

Before these privileges were legislated, these groups of handicraft workers were simply called ' handicraft associations '.

Before the Test series started he scored consecutive centuries against Tasmania and Australia A these were his first in two years.

Before consolidation of many of these rural school districts in the last half of the twentieth century, Indiana high schools had fewer students than those of most other states ; basketball was a natural game for these schools since it only required five starters and a few reserves.

Before he died, Marx asked Engels to write up these ideas, which were published in 1884 under the title The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.

Before that, most of these patterns were more connected to geographical regions than to any clan.

Before Franklin D. Roosevelt, attempts at a third term were encouraged by supporters of Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt ; neither of these attempts succeeded.

Before the time of Flavius, these formularies are said to have been secret and known only to the priests.

Before these monsters the hero's courage failed and by them was led away to eternal punishment.

Before 1900, England had none of these except for the civil registration of births, marriages, and burials briefly attempted under the Commonwealth ( 1653 – 1660 ) and an even more short-lived initiative of the same kind in 1694 in connection with the attempt to raise a tax on the occasion of every birth, marriage, and death — paupers excepted.

Before the start of World War II, Germany started building U-boats and training crews, labeling these activities as " research " or concealing them using other covers.

Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician ; he failed in all of these efforts.

Before 1991 these judges were known as District Justices and addressed as " Your Worship ".

Before universal algebra came along, many theorems ( most notably the isomorphism theorems ) were proved separately in all of these fields, but with universal algebra, they can be proven once and for all for every kind of algebraic system.

Before printer's magenta was invented in the 1890s for CMYK printing, and electric magenta was invented in the 1980s for computer displays, these two artificially engineered colors were preceded by the color displayed at right, which is the color originally called fuchsine made from coal tar dyes in the year 1859.

Before these royal marriages, Darius married a commoner with whom he had three sons, Artobarzanes ( the first born ), Arabignes and Arsamenes, while daughters are not known.

Before these plans could come to effect however, the central government declared the city a protected townscape.