Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.

Before a lord could grant land ( a fief ) to someone, he had to make that person a vassal.

Before then, effectiveness of muzzleloaders was hindered by both the low reloading speed and, before the firing mechanism was perfected, the very high risk posed by the firearm to the person attempting to fire it.

The constitution act stipulates that: " Before assuming office, a person appointed to be Governor shall take the Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance and the Oath or Affirmation of Office in the presence of the Chief Justice or another Judge of the Supreme Court.

Before John Doe can be granted access to protected information it will be necessary to verify that the person claiming to be John Doe really is John Doe.

Before the players sit down they must complete a task that the music person gives out before each round.

Before being sworn in as a minister, a person must first be sworn in as a member of the Federal Executive Council if they are not already a member.

Before a person can be accepted as a saint, they must be confirmed as having performed two miracles posthumously.

He witnessed first hand his son's success as a performer, and on February 12 heard Joseph Haydn's widely-quoted words of praise, upon hearing the string quartets Wolfgang dedicated to him, " Before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name: He has taste, and, furthermore, the most profound knowledge of composition.

Before Galileo turned his telescope to the heavens, the planets of the Solar System were not recognized as worlds, or places where a person could potentially set foot ; they were visible to observers merely as bright points of light, distinguishable from stars only by their motion.

Before the reign of Henry VIII, the Sovereign always granted his or her Assent in person.

Before a person can erect a library, he must educate himself on the subject of collecting and organizing books.

Before the PCT was planned, Martin Papendick was the first known person to hike across the three states of the PCT in 1952.

Before that she played herself in Jean-Luc Godard's film Made in U. S. A .. Faithfull has also appeared in the 1967 film I'll Never Forget What's ' isname alongside Orson Welles ( where she notedly became the first person to say " fuck " in a mainstream studio picture ), in the French television film Anna, starring Anna Karina ( in which Faithfull sang Serge Gainsbourg's " Hier ou Demain "), as a leather-clad motorcyclist in the 1968 French film La Motocyclette ( English titles: Girl on a Motorcycle and Naked Under Leather ) opposite Alain Delon, and in Kenneth Anger's 1969 film Lucifer Rising, in which she played Lilith.

' Before argument, Mr. Chief Justice Waite said: The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations.

Before he can do so, he is mistaken for a homeless person and is attacked and nearly set on fire by thugs.

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 resigning in 1989, Poole had allegedly become the second most powerful person in the province despite never having been elected.

Before Bruton's sacking, Fergus O ' Dowd from County Louth came out as a supporter of Bruton and he was the first person to do so.

Before Calment, the only person who had surpassed a former longest confirmed lifespan with more than one year, was Delina Filkins who became the first 113-year-old in 1928.

Before moving from one address to another in London, Adams filled out several change-of-address forms, including one he submitted in person at his bank.

Before 1992, the person elected president had always carried the primary, but Bill Clinton broke the pattern in 1992, as did George W. Bush in 2000, and Barack Obama in 2008.

Before the cake is eaten the person whose birthday it is should blow out the candles one after another .”

Before the third finalshow Iselin Andresen withdrew from the competition, and the last person to be eliminated, Audun Rensel, was given a second chance.

Before these laws were passed, Tribunes could only interpose the sacrosanctity of their person ( intercessio ) to veto acts of the senate, assemblies, or magistrates.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

Before deciding where it is going, however, a college or university must know where it is.

Before it cycles on again, humidity can build up and make you uncomfortable even though the temperature is still low.

Before adjournment Monday afternoon, the Senate is expected to approve a study of the number of legislators allotted to rural and urban areas to determine what adjustments should be made.

Before dropping the anchor, the fishing process is reversed, and the anchor is dropped from the end of the cathead.

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 actual process of cell death is precipitated by enzymes, apoptotic signals must cause regulatory proteins to initiate the apoptosis pathway.

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 end of this World Cup Glenn McGrath stated that Lara is the greatest batsman that he has ever bowled to.

Before the formation of Malaysian Federation, the Philippines claimed that the Malaysian state of Sabah in north Borneo is within their territorial rights based on historical facts of the Sultanate of Sulu's leasing agreement with the North Borneo Company, is presently an unresolved claim against Malaysia.

Before this discovery, it is widely believed that bricks appeared about 3000 years ago in the Western Zhou dynasty since the earliest bricks were found in Western Zhou ruins.

In Earnest J. Gaines ' novel, " A Lesson Before Dying " Bayonne, Louisiana is the name of a Cajun town central to the book.

Before the renovations the entire building was all male, but now every house is co-ed.

Before 1873, England had two parallel court systems: courts of " law " that could only award money damages and recognized only the legal owner of property, and courts of " equity " ( courts of chancery ) that could issue injunctive relief ( that is, a court order to a party to do something, give something to someone, or stop doing something ) and recognized trusts of property.

Before the Norman conquest in 1066, justice was administered primarily by what is today known as the county courts ( the modern " counties " were referred to as " Shires " in pre-Norman times ), presided by the diocesan bishop and the sheriff, exercising both ecclesiastical and civil jurisdiction.

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 1970s, community colleges in the United States were more commonly referred to as junior colleges, and that term is still used at some institutions.

This act is commonly criticized by modern cartoonists including Watterson and Pearls Before Swines Stephan Pastis.

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

BCE is the abbreviation for Before the Common / Current / Christian Era ( an alternative to Before Christ, abbreviated BC ).