Before his first defense, against England based Ugandan Cornelius Boza Edwards, Limón made a reference to the tragic fight between Lupe Pintor and Johnny Owens, which had taken place the year before, and after which Owens died.

Before he joined the Ramones, he was the singer in a band called Sniper.

Before long his wife left their daughter with her parents and joined Rilke there.

Before Westerberg joined the band, Dogbreath often drank and took various drugs during rehearsals, playing songs as an afterthought.

Before the election, the War Democrats joined the Republicans to form the National Union Party.

Before forming the Mountain West Conference, seven of the eight charter members had been longtime members of the Western Athletic Conference ; half were WAC charter members at its formation in 1962-UNLV had only joined the WAC in 1996.

Before Bryan joined the cast, Gale Gordon played the part of the town doctor in several episodes.

Before then, the permanent members of the Committee were joined by four Law Lords named by the Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

Before monosaccharide units are incorporated into glycoproteins, polysaccharides, or lipids in living organisms, they are typically first " activated " by being joined via a glycosidic bond to the phosphate group of a nucleotide such as uridine diphosphate ( UDP ), guanosine diphosphate ( GDP ), thymidine diphosphate ( TDP ), or cytidine monophosphate ( CMP ).

Before long, he joined the Smashing Pumpkins.

Before entering Cardozo High School and shortly after the Gay family relocated to D. C .' s Deanwood neighborhood in northeastern Washington, he had joined several doo-wop groups in the D. C. area, including the Dippers, which featured his friend Johnny Stewart, brother of R & B singer Billy Stewart.

Before reaching its mouth it is joined by the River Trym at Sea Mills which was the site of Portus Abonae a Roman port.

Before releasing the critically acclaimed Le Jardin de Heavenly, Cathy Rogers ( keyboard, back-up vocals ) joined the band.

Before his solo career, Thomas sang in a church choir as a teenager then joined the musical group The Triumphs.

Before its control by the Roman Republic, Surrentum was one of the towns subject to Nuceria, and shared its fortunes up to the Social War ; it seems to have joined in the revolt of 90 BC like Stabiae ; and was reduced to obedience in the following year, when it seems to have received a colony.

Before Hulegu set forth toward Persia, the threat to the Muslim world posed by the swelling Mongol force was perceived by the Ismaili Imam ‘ Ala al-Din Muhammad, who in 1238 joined the Abbasid caliph, al-Mustansir, in appealing to the European monarchs of England and France to coalesce in a Christian-Muslim alliance against the Mongols.

Before the 1912 season, Peggy Parratt, an early football star with the Massillon Tigers, Franklin Athletic Club and the Shelby Blues, joined the Indians.

Before leaving his presidency early in 1921, Woodrow Wilson joined other leading Americans in a statement that rebuked Ford and others for their antisemitic campaign.

Before construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1916, Lake Washington's outlet was the Black River, which joined the Duwamish River and emptied into Elliott Bay.

Before the United States joined World War II, Cochran was part of " Wings for Britain ", an organization that ferried American built aircraft to Britain, becoming the first woman to fly a bomber, ( a Lockheed Hudson V ) across the Atlantic.

Before Caesar took Rome, Labienus left him in Gaul and joined Pompey.

Before he left Skenesboro, Burgoyne was joined by about 500 Indians ( mostly Ottawas, but also Fox, Mississauga, Chippewa, and Ojibwe, as well as members of the Iroquois ) from the Great Lakes region under the leadership of St. Luc de la Corne and Charles Michel de Langlade.

Before leaving, however, Chunn gave a crucial piece of parting advice, suggesting that the replacement for Phil Judd should be Tim Finn's younger brother Neil, who officially joined on 7 April 1977.

Before agreeing to a contract with the Ducks in December, he joined the Canadian national team in training.

Guitarist Johnny Marr ( formerly of The Smiths ) joined the band in May 2006, along with percussionist Joe Plummer ( formerly of the Black Heart Procession ) and multi-instrumentalist Tom Peloso, to work on the album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.

Before the Long March, Yang served in Zhang Guotao's army, but joined Mao's forces when Mao and Zhang met briefly in June – July 1935, in the middle of the Long March.

Before his departure, a group of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had given him a luncheon, and Stidger had seen advance sheets of Elmer Gantry.

Before seizing power in 2003, Bozizé's rebel group was equipped and trained in Chad.

Before he was assassinated, Umar decided that his successor would come from a group of six.

Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he worked at the U. S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, Arizona, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews.

Before Christmas 1955, Brantley had the group record a demo of " Please, Please, Please " for a local Macon radio station.

Before leaving for Scandinavia the group took part in a recording session for the P. J.

Before independence, most Hindus did not have the right to cast votes and were not eligible to contest elections although were the majority ethnic group of the population.

Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah.

Before the break off of dialogue, a letter written by a group of Colombian intellectuals ( among whom were Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez ) to the Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board was released denouncing the approach taken by the FARC-EP and the dire consequences that it was having for the country.

A deleted scene from The Nightmare Before Christmas features a group of vampires playing hockey on the frozen pond with the decapitated head of Burton.

Before the troupe formed, Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney were working together doing Theatresports in Calgary, performing in a group named " The Audience ".

Before the group began the operation, Israeli agent Avri Elad ( Avraham Zeidenberg ) was sent to oversee the operations.

Before 1960, Thimphu consisted of a group of hamlets scattered across the valley including Motithang, Changangkha, Changlimithang, Langchupakha, and Taba, some of which constitute districts of the city today ( see below for district details ).

Before Allen purchased the team in 1988, the Trail Blazers were owned by a group of investors headed by Larry Weinberg.

Before this park was created, the area was known as ' The Gun Sites ', as it had been the location for anti-aircraft guns in WW2, and was the home of the 1st Petts Wood scout group.

Before the development of the Estates, the area was inhabited by the northern Ipai, a semi-nomadic people and a group of the Kumeyaay.

Before European settlement around 1795, the area was settled by the Melungeon, a group of people of mixed European, sub-Saharan African, and Native American ancestry.

Before it started, Hendrix " called this tour The Cry of Love, because that's what it is " in an interview ; this is the only mention of that name, prior to the posthumous LP of that name ( 1971 ), and the group itself was still referred to in all ads, articles, promos, bookings, introductions, etc.

Before signing the group, the label's president, Harold Robinson, was unimpressed with the physical looks of Holt, telling staff he felt Holt was " too dark and too unattractive " to be the lead singer.

Before they turn gaseous, the carboxyl group is released from the molecule as carbon dioxide and water vapor at around 106 ° C ( 220 ° F ).

Before the 1940s, most artists in St Ives and West Cornwall belonged to the St Ives Society of Artists ; but events in the late 1940s led to a dispute between the abstract and figurative artists in the group.

Before Lewin and Festinger, there were, of course, descriptions of a very similar group property.

Before the Maastricht Treaty, member states cooperated at the intergovernmental level in various sectors relating to free movement and personal security (" group of co-ordinators ", CELAD, TREVI ) as well as in customs co-operation ( GAM ) and judicial policy.

After their distribution deal with Epic Records ended in 1984, the remaining Isleys signed with Warner Bros .. Before the contract could be completed, the group agreed with the IRS to sell their stock in T-Neck Records, folding the label in 1985.