Before that time, a clique of generals residing in Rio de Janeiro controlled major decisions of the army.

Before 1910 the difficulty of harmonizing the Proprium de Tempore and the Proprium Sanctorum, to which reference has been made, was only partly met in the thirty-seven chapters of general rubrics.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

" Before Diderot ," Anne Louise Germaine de Staël wrote, " I had never seen anything in pictures except dull and lifeless colours ; it was his imagination that gave them relief and life, and it is almost a new sense for which I am indebted to his genius.

Before 1537 Cabeza de Vaca crossed central Texas or northern Mexico from the Gulf to northwest Mexico.

Before his death he had urged the College of Cardinals to elect Giovanni di San Paolo as his successor, but Lotario de ' Conti was elected pope on the very day on which Celestine III died.

Before leaving school, towards the end of 1855, he became assistant to the painter and professor Louis ( Lodewijk ) Jan de Taeye, whose courses in history and historical costume he had greatly enjoyed at the Academy.

" Before this de Monte had censored it by deleting most references to idolatry.

* Before this year – Textile with elephants and camels, known today as the Suaire de St-Josse, from Khurasan or Central Asia, is made.

* 1265 – Before August – Future King Edward I escapes captivity in the hands of Simon de Montfort.

Before this, however, he travelled to Medina del Campo, where he met the charismatic Teresa de Jesús.

Before reaching Versailles, she also met her future brothers-in-law, Louis Stanislas Xavier, comte de Provence ; and Charles Philippe, comte d ' Artois, who came to play important roles during and after her life.

Before the Code, France did not have a single set of laws-law consisted mainly of local customs, which had sometimes been officially compiled in " customals " ( coutumes ), notably the Coutume de Paris.

Before Henry held real power, it was alleged that there was a plot to spirit Eleanor away and deliver her to the king of France ; de Maulay was accused of the plot and fell out of favour.

Before the faculty could do so, the Parlement de Paris intervened, forbidding the Sorbonne faculty to consider the propositions.

Before the 2010 regulations, the complete list of the actual and theoretical varieties also included Pinot de Juillet and Pinot Rosé.

Before Tortosa, across the river, rise the massive Ports de Tortosa-Beseit mountains.

Before the switch from blue and white to red and white, only one other team wore red and white, Sporting de Gijón, since 1905.

Before his death he had the upper terrace widened to hold a larger parterre and enclosed with latticework and pavilions ; his successor, Louis XII, built a gallery round the terrace which can be seen in the 1576 engraving by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, in Les plus excellens bastimens de France.

Before their marriage, Marguerite took revenge upon the Marquis de St. Cyr, who had ordered her brother to be beaten for his romantic interest in the Marquis ' daughter, with the unintended consequence of the Marquis and his sons being sent to the guillotine.

Before all these marriages he had a marriage contract with Joan, daughter of William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon, but that engagement was broken off in 1200.

With Tim Brown they formed a new Independent Group of Councillors with Dennis de Lord as leader and Tim Brown as deputy leader, to put People Before Politics.

Before leaving England to fight in the Holy Lands, Ernulf de Hesdin gave ownership of Ruislip to the Benedictine Bec Abbey in 1087.

* 30 May 1958: Before the official opening, Transair operated the first commercial air service from the new Gatwick ; a Jersey Airlines de Havilland Heron was the first scheduled aircraft to arrive at the newly reconstructed airport.

Before the construction of the Guadiana International Bridge ( in its neighboring upstream municipality of Castro Marim ) it used to be the easiest access to Portugal from Andalusia ( via ferry from the Spanish city of Ayamonte across the river ).

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

Before thee, did not other kings possess it for a while, then pass away?

Before the mention of Alemanni in the time of Caracalla, you would search in vain for Alemanni in the moderately detailed geography of southern Germany in Claudius Ptolemy, written in Greek in the mid-2nd century ; it is likely that at that time, the people who later used that name were known by other designations.

Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the season, as it is common in other West Germanic languages to this day ( cf.

Before the introduction of the Phoenix missile, most other US aircraft relied on the smaller, less-expensive AIM-7 Sparrow ; classified as a Medium Range Missile ( MRM ).

Before Wiseman's publication, Thiele had determined from the biblical texts that Nebuchadnezzar's initial capture of Jerusalem occurred in the spring of 597 BC, while other scholars, including Albright, more frequently dated the event to 598 BC.

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 Dutch retook control of the islands, the British removed many nutmeg trees and transplanted them to Ceylon and other British colonies.

Before Pilate on the other hand it was merely the assertion of his royal dignity which gave ground for his condemnation.

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.

Before the dispute started in 1964 the peoples of Cyprus ( then 77 % Greek Cypriots, 18 % Turkish Cypriots, 5 % other nationalities, including Armenians and Maronites ) were dispersed over the entire island.

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 Service Number was introduced in the 1990s, military personnel were identified on the I discs ( as well as other documents ) by their Social Insurance Number.

Before the Scourge almost all orks were enslaved by other races.

Before heterodyning, radio signals often overrode and interfered with each other.

Before 2007 there existed only a few other places on the Formula 1 calendar with a body of water close to the track.

Before 1950, the term grandmaster was sometimes informally applied to other world class players.

Before the adoption of the current year numbering system, other systems were in use.

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 plastics were invented, ivory was important for cutlery handles, musical instruments, billiard balls, and many other items.

Before the computer age, this was accomplished by the card catalogue — a cabinet ( or multiple cabinets ) containing many drawers filled with index cards that identified books and other materials.

Before Libya achieved independence, its name was seldom used other than as a somewhat imprecise geographical expression.

Before she died, my mother told me to be happy that I was the son of this other man.