Before being elected President, Jefferson had opposed funds for a Navy to be used for anything more than a coastal defense, however the continued pirate attacks on American shipping interests in the Atlantic and Mediterranean and the systematic kidnapping of American crew members could no longer be ignored.

Before Addams ' powerful influence on the profession, social work was largely informed by a " friendly visitor " model in which typically wealthy women of high public stature visited impoverished individuals and, through systematic assessment and intervention, aimed to improve the lives of the poor.

Before CTAN there were a number of people who made some TeX materials available for public download, but there was no systematic collection.

Before any systematic naming convention was adopted, comets were named in a variety of ways.

Before leaving St. Olaf College, he completed work on his magnum opus, the two-volume Systematic Theology ( 1997 – 99 ), which has since been widely regarded as one of the most important and creative recent works of systematic theology.

Before he left he ordered a systematic destruction of Diriyah, whose ruins have remained untouched ever since.

In March 2005, the United States Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) made 8-1-1 the universal number for the 71 regional services that coordinate location services for underground public utilities in the U. S. Before that time, each of these " call before you dig " services had its own 800 number, and the FCC and others wanted to make it as easy as possible for everyone planning an excavation to call first.

Before excavation began, all that was visible at the Bar ' an site were six columns projecting above the sand.

A museum was built at the site by the Oromia Culture and Tourism Commission with financial assistance from the European Community, consisting of four buildings of exhibits — one on Prehistoric Africa, another on Geology and Volcanology, a third on Paleoanthropology, the fourth on the Prehistory of Melka Kunture — and the " Open Air Museum ", which displays the excavation of two Acheulean sites that have been dated to 0. 8 Million years Before Present.

Before the demolition could take place, Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair ( Director of Naval Intelligence and head of MI6 ) bought the site.

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

Before mating, each male excavates a brood site, a saucer-shaped depression under a rock or log with its entrance positioned out of the direct current, usually pointing downstream.

Before a mutual solution could be devised, the mosque was destroyed on December 6, 1992 as the mosque was built by Babur allegedly on the site of a previous Hindu temple marking the birthplace of Rama.

Based on radiocarbon dating of a shell found at the site dates the occupation at 3180 ± 100 BP ( Before Present ).

Before Rowell Jackman Hall was built, the site was home to a parking lot and the historic Stephenson House.

Before starting his commission, Bartholdi had traveled to the United States and personally selected New York Harbor as the site for the statue.

Before the Industrial Revolution, much of the area was farmland, providing food for the City of London and surrounding population centres ; and with particular specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill ( nowadays denoted by the road of the same name ), asparagus, sold as " Battersea Bundles " or pig breeding on Pig Hill ( later the site of the Shaftesbury Park Estate ).

Before the war a number of 1930s council housing blocks were added to the stock, but it was after the war, partly as result of bomb site redevelopment, that the council housing boom really got into its stride, reaching its peak in the 1960s with the construction of several extensive estates, both by the Metropolitan Borough of Islington and the London County Council.

Before the arrival of European-American settlers during the 1830s, the northeastern portion of the future Blackford County was briefly the site of an Indian reservation for Chief Francois Godfroy of the Miami tribe.

Before settling on the present site for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets, Wright, Rebay and Guggenheim considered numerous locations in Manhattan, as well as in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, overlooking the Hudson River.

Before 1900, Chitina was the site of large village whose population was slowly decimated by the influx of people, disease and conflicts.

Before the war he had owned and managed what was perhaps the largest tanning yard west of the Alleghenies at a site three miles northeast of present day Waterloo.

Before that, the site was occasionally used as a campground for groups of Dakota, who hunted and traveled throughout the region.

Before the establishment Wahkon, the site was an Ojibwe village named Sagawamick ( from the Ojibwe language Zaagawaamik, meaning " Sandbar ").

Before its incorporation, the town site was referred to informally as Possum Town, a name which was given by the local Native Americans.

Before Laurel became a city or a community, people passed through the site during the gold rush period, when gold was discovered at the Clarks Fork headwaters.

Before Woodrow Wilson School was constructed, students attended Roosevelt School on Third Avenue, which was demolished after being deemed beyond repair and became the site of Joe Freda Park.

Before the demise of Hertford, Magdalen College conspired to make its site ready to receive a transplanted Magdalen Hall.

Before being named Texola, the town site had been called Texokla and Texoma.

Before the founding of Tishomingo in 1852, the area was known as Good Springs, named for the presence of several springs that made the place a suitable camp site along the road between Fort Washita and Fort Arbuckle.

Before the late 19th century, the area around the future site of Wheatland was a flat, arid landscape with desert-like vegetation.

Before construction could commence the site had to be embanked, and the site cleared of the remains of the buildings and various sewers diverted.

Before they could guess his intention Rankin stepped forward and swung the guard's own gun against the uncovered head, hard.

Before memory, too, clouds over, let us make a note or two of what could be seen.

Before he could duck, another stone struck him.

Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.

Before the Juniors entered the ring the Steward announced that after all Juniors had moved their dogs around the ring and set them up, they could relax with their dogs.

Before Roberts could move inside to cut upward toward his face, he slammed his right fist into Roberts' belly.

Before he could snap it on, a stinging blow caught him in the ribs.

Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.

Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.

Before the passage of the lex annalis, individuals could run for the Aedileship by the time they turned twenty-seven.

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 Stalin's consolidation of power, the Central Committee featured open debate, where even leading officials could be criticised.

Before the vote to award franchises in 1959, Murchison revealed to Marshall that he owned the song and Marshall could not play it during games.

Before many copies of the book could be printed, however, the printing press and most of the printed copies were destroyed by a mob in Missouri.

Before the advent of fast computing machines, solving a dynamical system required sophisticated mathematical techniques and could be accomplished only for a small class of dynamical systems.

Before the invention of the integrated circuit in 1959, electronic circuits were constructed from discrete components that could be manipulated by humans.

Before the question could be answered, the notion of " algorithm " had to be formally defined.

Before a new Grand Alliance could be concluded Leopold I prepared to send an expedition to seize the Spanish lands in Italy.

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

Before, geologists could only use fossils to date sections of rock relative to one another.

Before a new employee could rise to the level of mastery, he had to go through a schooling period during which he was first called an apprentice.

Before the assembled cardinals and delegations could engage in theological discussion, they had to decide how to sit during the proceedings.