Before becoming the studio host for The NFL on NBC in 1984, Costas did play-by-play of NFL games with analyst Bob Trumpy.

Before use, hanks are wound into balls in which the yarn emerges from the center, making crocheting easier by preventing the yarn from becoming easily tangled.

Before becoming public, the movement was secretive and held closed meetings in what was known as Sessions of Wisdom.

Before becoming member a party needs to have been observer of the EFA for at least one year.

Before becoming president, Madero published another book, this one under the pseudonym of Bhima ( one of Arjuna's brothers in the Mahābhārata ) called a Spiritualist Manual.

Before he dies, Heracles throws Lichas into the sea, thinking he was the one who poisoned him ( according to several versions, Lichas turns to stone, becoming a rock standing in the sea, named for him ).

Before becoming a full-time actor, Spader held a variety of jobs including being a yoga instructor, busboy, truck driver, stable boy, and railroad-car loader.

Before becoming the UN Ambassador he was the Attorney General of Missouri and United States Senator from Missouri.

Before knitting, the knitter will typically transform a hank into a ball where the yarn emerges from the center of the ball ; this making the knitting easier by preventing the yarn from becoming easily tangled.

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 ).

Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U. S. Navy and served in the Korean War.

Before becoming Pope, he spent time at the then very liberal and cosmopolitan University of Padua, which maintained considerable independence from the Church and had a very international character.

In the episode " Before and After ", Kes participates in Voyager's year-long battle with the Krenim, becoming infected with particles from a chronoton torpedo.

Before becoming President, Taft was selected to serve on the Ohio Superior Court in 1887.

Before becoming a Christian, he was an orator, " pleader in the courts ", and a teacher of rhetoric.

Before entering politics, he had been a classical scholar, becoming a full Professor of Ancient Greek at the age of 25.

Before becoming a polka artist, and founding Chicago-based Bel-Aire Records in 1963, Eddie Blazonczyk recorded under the name Eddy Bell for Mercury Records and Lucky Four Records, both labels also based in Chicago.

Before becoming a director himself, he built his reputation as a film writer with articles in Esquire.

Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II.

Before becoming king he was 4th Duke of York, 7th Earl of March, 5th Earl of Cambridge and 9th Earl of Ulster.

Before becoming an actor, Milland served in the Household Cavalry.

Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education.

Before becoming a Roman deacon, Hormisdas was married, and his son became pope under the name of Silverius.

Before becoming king, Harald spent a period in exile as a military commander in Kievan Rus ' and in the Byzantine Empire.

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

Before 2000, the President had the right to enact regulations on matters not governed by parliamentary law, but this power was removed, and existing regulations were converted into regular statutes by the Parliament.

Before the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act was passed in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the FBI director would directly brief the President of the United States on any issues that arise from within the FBI.

Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President ( 1833 – 1837 ) and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson ( 1829 – 1831 ).

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 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 1982, the excutive of a department was the prefect ( préfet ) who represents the Government of France in each department and is appointed by the President of France.

Before signing a bill into law, the President can also ask the Constitutional Tribunal to verify its compliance with the Constitution, which in practice bears a decisive influence on the legislative process.

Before the Old Man tracks Sam down and captures him, they have infected the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, whose department controls the United States Secret Service ( responsible for the President's personal security ); the slugs are a step away from infecting the President himself.

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that neither the United Kingdom nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany.

Before his term as President, he worked as an aerospace engineer with Defence Research and Development Organisation ( DRDO ) and Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO ).

Before the signing ceremony of the Sarbanes – Oxley Act, President George W. Bush met with Senator Paul Sarbanes, U. S. Secretary of Labor | Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and other dignitaries in the Blue Room ( White House ) | Blue Room at the White House on July 30, 2002

Before the film's release, Warner showed a preview cut to U. S. President Richard Nixon, who recommended substantial changes, including the removal of two songs that struck him as veiled criticisms of the ongoing Vietnam War.

Before it was cancelled by President Barack Obama in early 2010, the Constellation Program had been a major activity in NASA since 2004.

Before Abraham Lincoln, no President had a beard ; after Lincoln until William Howard Taft, every President except Andrew Johnson and William McKinley had either a beard or a moustache.

Before the outbreak of hostilities, on 10 November 1845, President James K. Polk, had sent his envoy, John Slidell, to Mexico to offer the country around $ 5 million for the territory of Nuevo México, and up to $ 40 million for Alta California ( the present State of California ).

Before hostilities erupted, Bonifacio reorganized the Katipunan into an open de facto revolutionary government, with him as President and commander-in-chief ( or generalissimo ) of the rebel army and the Supreme Council as his cabinet.

11: 30: Before sleeping, President Bush enters into his journal: " The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today ... We think it's Osama bin Laden.

Before they take it away, however, I think the President the BBFC should read it.

Before becoming senator, Dessaulles was President of the Bank of Saint-Hyacinthe, and mayor of Saint-Hyacinthe.