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 attacking a settlement, the Mongol generals demanded submission to the Khan, and threatened the initial villages with complete destruction if they refused to surrender.

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

Before Constantius arrived, the Persian general Narses, who was possibly the king's brother, overran Mesopotamia and captured Amida.

Before the Persian Gulf War, Kuwait maintained a small military force with equipment supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States.

Before 1991, the city was usually spelled Ashkabad in English, a transliteration of the Russian form, which was itself from the original Persian form.

* Before continuing his pursuit of Darius III, who has retreated into Bactria, Alexander assembles all the Persian treasure and entrusts it to Harpalus, who is to hold it at Ecbatana as chief treasurer.

Before Islam, the crescent was the symbol of Sassanids and after capturing Persian lands, the crescent has been adopted by Muslim Arabs and later by Islamic faith.

Before his invasion of Greece, Xerxes I spent three years amassing supplies from all over Asia ; Herodotus wrote that the Persian army was so large it " drank the rivers dry ".

Before embarkation he studied the Persian and Hindustani languages with success under John Borthwick Gilchrist.

Before 1880 all the administrative works in Bihar was done in this Persian script and possibly all the educated Muslims in the Bhojpuri speaking region wrote unofficial works in Nastaʿlīq script.

Before the final Persian destruction of the town in 256-257 CE, parts of the synagogue which abutted the main city wall were apparently requisitioned and filled with sand as a defensive measure.

Before setting out on his Persian expedition, Alexander the Great defeated the Getae and razed one of their settlements.

Before the 13th century, many empires were considered to be " core " nations, such as the Roman, the Chinese empire, the Greek city-states, the Byzantine Empire, Persian Empire, Mesopotamian Empire, Carolingian Empire in Western Europe, and so on.

Before 964, it was first discovered by the Persian astronomer Al Sufi, and described in his Book of Fixed Stars in 964.

Before the battle in Babylon, Alexander states that the lunar eclipse which some of his men thought was a bad omen means that " the Persian moon will be eclipsed by the Macedonian Sun " with which Aristander the seer agrees.

Before that, it had been the capital of the Jin, who did not rule all of China.

Before then it was the capital of Elbląg Voivodeship ( 1975 – 1998 ) and a county seat in Gdańsk Voivodeship ( 1945 – 1975 ).

Before the end of November, the main German troops had withdrawn from Tirana, and the communists took control of the capital by fighting what was left from the German army.

Before the great archaeological excavations in the 19th century, historical knowledge of the great Assyrian empire and of its magnificent capital was almost wholly a blank.

There is a minimum share capital for public limited companies: Before it can start business, it must have allotted shares to the value of at least £ 50, 000.

Before the French revolution, prior to the integration of the Duchy of Brittany into the Kingdom of France, Rennes was the capital of the duchy, with the other historical capitals of Brittany's Ducal period being Nantes and Vannes.

Before the Roman conquest of northern Gaul, Reims, founded circa 80 BC as * Durocorteron (" round fortress "; in Latin: Durocortōrum ), served as the capital of the tribe of the Remi — whose name the town would subsequently echo.

Before reaching Italy, Titus learnt that Galba had been murdered and replaced by Otho, governor of Lusitania, and that Vitellius and his armies in Germania were preparing to march on the capital, intent on overthrowing Otho.

Before the Eastern Jin the city was known as Jianye ( 建業 Jiànyè ), and the capital of the kingdom of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period.

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

Before the Spanish conquest, the Pipil peoples established their capital, Cuzcatlán, near the current location of San Salvador.

Before Edoras was completed, Rohan's capital was at Aldburg in the Folde.

Before 1 January 1999, it was the capital of the separate Słupsk Voivodeship.

Before the Taihō Code was established, the capital was customarily moved after the death of an emperor because of the ancient belief that a place of death was polluted.

Before this it is likely that the capital would have been at or near Pocklington.

Before and after the late-2000s financial crisis, banking regulators worried that banks were incorrectly reporting non-traded assets as held in their “ trading account ” because of lower regulatory capital requirements for such assets.

Before pioneer settlement in the 19th century, the area was covered by the primeval forest that stretched between the provincial capital of York and the town of Hamilton, and was home to various First Nations peoples.

Before World War II, venture capital investments ( originally known as " development capital ") were primarily the domain of wealthy individuals and families.

Before being made the capital, Thon Buri was an important garrison town at the mouth of the river.

Before Finnish independence, political power in Finland was centralised in the capital and to the estates of the realm.

Before and during the time of The Hobbit, some Orcs had Mount Gundabad as their capital, the Orcs of the Misty Mountains were apparently ruled by one " Great Goblin ", the former Dwarf-realm of Moria was held by orcs under one Azog and then his son Bolg, and one Golfimbul had led the orcs of Mount Gram in a foray into the Shire.

Before World War II, money orders ( originally known as " development capital ") were primarily the domain of wealthy individuals and families.

Before the late twentieth century the oldest existing copy of the Analects known to scholars was found in the " Stone Classics of the Xinping Era ", a copy of the Confucian classics written in stone in the old Eastern Han dynasty capital of Luoyang around 175 AD.

Before his final internment, he had about the most unique and elaborate weeklong funeral ceremonies in Nigeria besides Chief Obafemi Awolowo, whereby his body was carried around the five Eastern states, Imo, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra, including the nation's capital, Abuja.