Before taking any steps to meet the wishes of Michael, Louis asked the pope's permission for a number of his bishops to assemble and make a selection of passages from the Fathers to elucidate the question that the Greeks had put before them.

Before his selection as pope, he had visited Constantinople twice.

Before the meal, a host might serve a selection of appetizers or hors d ' œuvres with appropriate wine or cocktails, and after the meal, a host might serve snacks, sweets such as chocolate, coffee, and after-dinner drinks ( cognac, brandy, liqueur, or similar ).

Before her selection as an astronaut candidate she served as a Flight Surgeon for the Naval Flight Officer advanced training squadron ( VT-86 ) in Pensacola, Florida.

Before the series began, Hobbs and Rhodes were added to the selection panel again.

Before the split, they found time to record a mix album On the Floor at the Boutique ( a follow-up to Fatboy Slim's mix album of the same name ) containing an eclectic selection of tracks, including two short tracks recorded by the original line-up especially for the mix: " You're Never Alone With A Clone ," and " Bootsy Call ".

Before fall 2006, students needed to perform individual projects all centered on a topic the group decided on in the selection period.

Before the end of this period, a selection of about 50 scientists within each Working Group produces a first draft " Summary for policymakers " ( SPM ) summarizing its section of the full assessment report.

Before the 2003 season, Major League Soccer held Supplemental Drafts, in which players who had signed with the league after the 2003 MLS SuperDraft were made available for selection.

The story was one of three outlines submitted for selection as the second pilot of Star Trek, the others being " Mudd's Women " and " Where No Man Has Gone Before.

Before 1982, a selection of participants were also presented with special Winner's prizes and the number of recipients of this award varied from year to year.

Before moving to Warsaw in 1977, he burned a selection of his works in his own backyard, without leaving any documentation on them.

Before selecting a team, the game offers a selection of " Grooves ", which change the way the game is played, as well as " AC-ism " or " GC-ism " Grooves ; GC-ism simplifies the control scheme, originally designed for the GameCube gamepad.

Before selection took place, the applicants were invited to attend a pre-selection weekend, where they would have been tested and given notice of the likelihood of failure or success and how to improve themselves.

Before the draft, five college underclassmen announced that they would leave college early and would be eligible for selection.

Before Eurovision, ERT used an internal selection method to choose Paparizou.

Before this, the team selection was made by coaches and boardroom members.

Before the late twentieth century, on the basis of studies showing widely varying validities for personnel selection techniques, the theory of " situational specificity " held sway.

Before the plant was selected to become dwarf in size, an early Dutch selection named ' Van Houttei ' was chosen and is still popular in the horticulture trade.

Before his NBA career, he originally committed to play at the University of Kansas, but decided to enter the NBA directly from Washington Union High School in his hometown of Fresno, California, and was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd selection of the 2000 NBA Draft.

Before the selection of cities, at least 14 cities presented proposal before the committee, of which they rejected proposals from Barquisimeto, Maracay, Valencia, Valera, Portuguesa and Miranda for not meeting established requirements.

Before the Olympics in 2000, she was accused of seeking special treatment by wanting an exemption from Olympic selection rules adopted by the Canadian Cycling Association.

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.