However, the episode " Flashes Before Your Eyes " suggests that minor changes are possible, unlike the totally fixed timeline postulated by Novikov's principle: in this episode Desmond's consciousness time travels back to a point in his past, where he ends up in a bar, where he remembers ( from his previous experience of this time ) a man named Jimmy Lennon entering and attacking the bartender ; in his attempt to warn the bartender, he himself gets attacked instead.

Before each round of air attack, the naval units make a defence roll, which may destroy some attacking air factors or cause others to abort ( those factors may still attack on the next round of combat ).

Before attacking the infantry and anti-tanks, one needs to destroy the artillery which protects them from behind.

Before attacking Superman, he remarks, " Did you honestly believe a fifth-dimensional sorcerer would resemble a funny little man in a derby hat?

Before attacking Hang Tuah, Beale also machine-gunned the oil pipes to Shell's wharf.

Before they can do anything else, though, the wheelchair-bound man suddenly enters the base, flanked by the same men who ’ d been attacking Jackie time and again, having been led there by a captive Momoko.

Before her wedding, while trying to recover her memories of that night, Laura appears to kill Rick who she thinks is attacking her.

Before he is killed by an attacking German Tiger tank, the drunken Dankhopf blurts out that there is a cache of 14, 000 gold bars ( worth $ 16 million ) stored in a bank vault 30 miles behind enemy lines in the town of Clermont ( most likely Clermont-en-Argonne ).

Before he defeated Yaiba, Musashi yelled at him and withdrew himself from attacking to join with Yaiba's group.

Before attacking the Persian capital, Khalid decided to eliminate all Persian forces in the south and west.

Before he can be killed by a gloating Ashura, a mystery robot wipes out the entire attacking Mechanical Beast army with one shot.

Before the First Fleet sailed to found a convict settlement in New South Wales, Governor Arthur Phillip's final instructions, received less than three weeks before sailing, included the requirement to colonise Norfolk Island to prevent it falling into the hands of France, whose naval leaders were also showing interest in the Pacific.

Before the invention of clocks, people marked the time of day with apparent solar time ( also called " true " solar time ) – for example, the time on a sundial – which was typically different for every settlement.

Urras before the settlement of Anarres is the setting for the short story The Day Before the Revolution.

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 1870, westward movement in the USA was largely across the plains with little or no settlement occurring.

Before European settlement, the area in which Canberra would eventually be constructed was seasonally inhabited by Indigenous Australians.

Before Mormon settlement, the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute had dwelt in the Salt Lake Valley for thousands of years.

Before the Romans, the settlement was known as Verulamion ( perhaps meaning " of Uerulamos " in Brittonic ), the capital of the Catuvellauni tribe.

Before settlement, Clay County was home to the Cherokee Indians, who were a tribe of Native Americans that made their home in Southeastern United States ( principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee ) They were one of the " Five Civilized Tribes " because of their assimilation of European-American cultural and technological practices.

Before the boundary settlement of 1873 the small states of Rushan and Shugnan extended to the left bank of the Oxus, and the province of Darwaz, on the other hand, extended to the right bank.

Before leaving the colony three years earlier, White had left instructions that, if the colonists left the settlement, they were to carve the name of their destination, with a Maltese cross if they left due to danger.

Before the 20th century, the tiny settlement was concentrated around in what was Kenton Lane ( the easternmost part of which remains as Old Kenton Lane to the east of Kingsbury station ) and is now part of the present day Woodgrange Avenue and Kenton Road.

Before the Romans and Saxons were present, there was a Celtic settlement in the area, with evidence of a hill fort in the Pollards Hill area.

Before the county ’ s formation, the primary settlement was Frenchtown, which was settled in as early as 1784 along the banks of the River Raisin.

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 1830, the few remaining Wea had departed under pressure from white settlement.

Before European settlement saltbush, cotton bush and native grasses are likely to have been the main plant cover on the plains.

Before European settlement, the network of ephemeral lakes filled and emptied, on average, about every 20 years, typically remaining dry for about half that period at a time.

Before European settlement, Aborigines burnt the grassland regularly for thousands of years and eventually native animals became dependent on the grasslands and the regular burning.

Before any modern settlement, the Ipiutak lived here.

Before European settlement, Scottsdale was a Pima village known as Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ, meaning " rotting hay.

Before Archibald Yell, the settlement was called Shawneetown for the Indian villages located here.

Before European settlement, the area which is now Conyers, along with the surrounding county of Rockdale, was occupied by mound-building Native Americans.

Before settlement, the locality now known as Heyworth was covered by a heavy growth of timber and underbrush which was inhabited by the Kickapoo Native Americans, and was supported a great number of deer, wild turkeys, and packs of large gray wolves.

Before the Mongol invasion, Chinese dynasties reportedly had approximately 120 million inhabitants ; after the conquest was completed in 1279, the 1300 census reported roughly 60 million people.

Before the rise of the Mongols in the 13th century, what is now central and western Inner Mongolia, especially the Hetao region, alternated in control between Chinese agriculturalists in the south and Xiongnu, Xianbei, Khitan, Jurchen, Tujue, and other Mongol nomads of the north.

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 his death, Genghis Khan divided his empire among his sons and immediate family, making the Mongol Empire the joint property of the entire imperial family who, along with the Mongol aristocracy, constituted the ruling class.

A History of Russian Architecture ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993 ) ISBN 978-0-521-40333-7 ( Chapter Three: " Vladimir and Suzdal Before the Mongol Invasion ")

Before the Mongol invasion of Hungary, at least seven villages with churches existed in the area.

Before his death, he returned to Christendom College each month during the school year to deliver public lectures on select historical topics, ranging from the history of the country of Malta, the Mongol leader Genghis Khan, the French Revolution, and topics from the 20th century, with lectures on Emperor Karl of Austria and the Russian Revolution in 1917.

Before the Mongol conquest, Russians of Novgorod and Vladimir repeatedly looted and attacked the area, thereby weakening the Bulgar state's economy and military power.