Before this emergence, logic was studied with rhetoric, through the syllogism, and with philosophy.

Before the emergence of the T-formation in the 1940s, all members of the offensive backfield were legitimate threats to run or pass the ball, and most teams used four offensive backs on every play: a quarterback, two halfbacks, and a fullback.

Before the emergence of this wall of mountains, the Valley of Mexico basin had natural drainage to the Balsas river.

Before the emergence of the holiness movement in the mid 19th century and Pentecostalism in the early 20th century, most denominations believed that Christians received the baptism with the Holy Spirit either upon conversion and regeneration or through rites of Christian initiation.

Before the emergence of Portugal, between the 9th and the 12th centuries, its territory was part of important military conflicts – these were mainly the result of three processes.

Before the emergence of the 16550 UART, there was a serious risk of buffer overrun on the serial port, and YMODEM-g would not notice this.

Before the granting of responsible government and the emergence of the position of Premier, the Provincial Secretary was the leading position in the executive councils appointed by the various governors and lieutenant-governors of British North America.

Before the emergence of purpose-built movie theaters, film projectors in venues such as fairgrounds, music halls and Nickelodeons were usually operated by a showman or presenter, in the same way as a lanternist.

Before the emergence of the Western monastic communities, a key contribution to the foundation of Lectio divina came from Origen in the 3rd century, with his view of " Scripture as a sacrament ".

Before the emergence of Neopaganism similar pseudonyms appear to have been used by writers of grimoires such as The Book of Abramelin, attributed to the Rabbi Yaakov Moelin.

Before 1940 Finland was a poor rural nation of urban and rural workers and independent farmers.

Before July 1, 2010, students were required to enroll in a student union, nation or AF in order to receive grades at the university, but this is no longer compulsory.

Before colonization the senior queen acted as a check and counterweight to the king's power, both through her direct control of some military forces and her control of rainmaking medicines and rites and of key aspects of the Ncwala national ritual that annually binds the fate of the king and the nation together.

Before admission to the Union, Texas, as an independent nation, controlled water within three miles of the coast, the normal limit for nations.

Before Harding's election, the nation had been adrift ; President Woodrow Wilson had been ill by a debilitating stroke for eighteen months and before that Wilson had been in Europe for several months attempting to negotiate a peace settlement after World War I.

Before 1917, the position of the United States government and the feelings of the nation in respect to the " Great War " initially had properly been one of neutrality.

Before the nation watched, riveted but powerless, as Los Angeles was looted and burned.

Before Prohibition, Missouri was the second-largest wine-producing state in the nation.

Before white settlement, all of the land that forms modern-day Starke County and adjacent LaPorte County to the north belonged to the Potawatami Indian nation.

Before white settlement, all of the land that forms modern-day LaPorte County, and adjacent Starke County to the south belonged to the Potawatomi Indian nation.

Before the eyes of the nation, Joe Louis, an American hero if ever there was one, was going to get beaten up.

Before 1876, the US Army had destroyed seven Cheyenne camps, more than those of any other nation.

Before the 19th century, military circles supported the notion that all persons, including unarmed women and children, were still the enemy, with the belligerent ( nation or person engaged in conflict ) having conquering rights over them.

Before he retired from the weekday breakfast programme Wake Up to Wogan on BBC Radio 2 on 18 December 2009, it had a regular 8 million listeners, making Wogan the most listened-to radio broadcaster of any European nation.

Before that period the Wisdom literature shows a tendency to dwell solely on the moral obligations and problems of life as appealing to man as an individual, leaving out of consideration the ceremonial and other laws which concern only the Jewish nation.

Before that, the nation was governed by three district chiefs and a council of chiefs.

Before the establishment of modern nation states in the region during the mid-20th century, Maghreb most-commonly referred to a smaller area between the Atlas Mountains in the south and the Mediterranean Sea, often also including eastern Libya, but not modern Mauritania.

: Before the ceremony of consecration begins, the bishop elect shall take a solemn oath, in the presence of the municipal officers, of the people, and of the clergy, to guard with care the faithful of his diocese who are confided to him, to be loyal to the nation, the law, and the king, and to support with all his power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly and accepted by the king.

Before the war he assented to the possible division of the nation on the grounds of " irreconcilable differences ;" that is, slavery, between regions.

Before he had been long in Padua the students of the German nation, of all the faculties there, elected him their patron, and he advised and assisted them in the purchase of a house to be a German library and club, for all time.

Before then, the Mossi people held a belief that " when the first white face appeared in the land the nation would die.

Before the completion of the Interstate system, U. S. Highway 70 was sometimes referred to as the " Broadway of America ", due to its status as one of the main east – west thoroughfares in the nation.

Before he died, Moawad had addressed the nation with these words: " There can be no country or dignity without unity of the people, and there can be no unity without agreement, and there can be no agreement without conciliation, and there can be no conciliation without forgiveness and compromise.

Before the era of rapid international transport or instantaneous communication ( such as radio or telephone ), diplomatic mission chiefs were granted full ( plenipotentiary ) powers to represent their government in negotiations with their host nation.

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.

It ran for 63 performances and was followed two years later by The Day Before Spring.

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 that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine.

In addition to conflicts between his Spanish and German inheritances, conflicts of religion would be another source of tension during the reign of Charles V. Before Charles even began his reign in the Holy Roman Empire, in 1517, Martin Luther initiated what would later be known as the Reformation.

Before came Orphée, later turned into one of his more successful films ; after came La Machine infernale, arguably his most fully realized work of art.

Before becoming a manga artist, Asamiya graduated from the Tokyo Designer School, then worked as a character designer for a number of anime series, and even designed models for some of the later Godzilla films ( 1980s ).

Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: " Before then ," he later wrote, " there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades.

Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.

Before his work on Pascal, Wirth had developed Euler and ALGOL W and later went on to develop the Pascal-like languages Modula-2 and Oberon.

Before his elevation to the papacy, Sinibaldo was Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church ( 1226 – 27 ), being created Cardinal Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina on 18 September 1227 by Pope Gregory IX, later serving as governor of the March of Ancona from 1235 until 1240.

Before he was discharged in January 1942, Nurmi was promoted first to a staff sergeant ( ylikersantti ) and later to a sergeant first class ( vääpeli ).

Before production started, a film-student protégé of Ogilvie, Steve Wallace, hired Crowe for the film Blood Oath ( 1990 ) ( aka Prisoners of the Sun ), which was released a month earlier than The Crossing, although actually filmed later.

Before Sima, histories were written as certain events or certain periods of history of states ; his idea of a general history affected later historiographers like Zheng Qiao ( 鄭樵 ) in writing Tongshi ( 通史 ) and Sima Guang ( 司馬光 ) in writing Zizhi Tongjian ( 資治通鑑 ).

Before his conversion, Saul ( who later became better known as Paul of Tarsus ) puts followers of Jesus in prison.

Before pre-production could begin, Moe fell ill from lung cancer, and died three months later on May 4, 1975.

Before this run was concluded, Bizet died suddenly, and thus knew nothing of the opera's later celebrity.

Before the start of the 2004 season, he threatened to withdraw his support against the ban on traction control, but later withdrew this threat.

Before the 50 km race on 23 February, a random test for hemoglobin levels found Mühlegg above the limit ; a second test five minutes later was below the limit, and he was allowed to compete.

Before her marriage, Majer studied physical education at Temple University and later became the first woman to head the Physical Education Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hofstadter later recognized ( what he saw as ) the influence of Darwinist and other evolutionary ideas upon those with collectivist views, enough to devise a term for the phenomenon, “ Darwinist collectivism .” Before Hofstadter's work the use of the term in English academic journals was quite rare.

Before 1968, there was only one photography category, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was divided into the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography ( later renamed breaking news ) and feature categories.

Before the devaluation, Jim Callaghan had announced publicly to the Press and the House of Commons that he would not devalue, something he later said was necessary to maintain confidence in the pound and avoid creating jitters in the financial markets.

Before his execution, Keitel published Mein Leben: Pflichterfüllung bis zum Untergang: Hitlers Feldmarschall und Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht in Selbstzeugnissen, otherwise known in English as In the Service of the Reich, and was later re-edited as The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel by Walter Görlitz from a translation by David Irving as the author in 1965.