Before the battle, one of Mark Antony's generals, Quintus Dellius, had defected to Octavian, bringing with him Mark Antony's battle plans.

Before a drive, a cowboy's duties included riding out on the range and bringing together the scattered cattle.

Before the game, Major League Baseball announced that an additional pitcher would be added to each roster, bringing the total for each league to 33 players.

Before the state degenerated in the thirties, Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition had the programmatic demand to " reform " the " bureaucratically deformed " state by revitalising the Soviets and bringing more democracy to the party.

Before the state degenerated in the thirties, Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition had the programmatic demand to " reform " the " bureaucratically deformed " state by revitalising the Soviets and bringing more democracy to the party.

Before the railroad, wagon or pole barge was the only practical method of bringing the coal from the remote region to market.

Before the 1984 elections the Left Camp of Israel merged into Ratz in a one-to-three ratio, bringing with them Ran Cohen amongst others.

Before eventually bringing the balloon to rest in Standon Green End.

Before their release, drum and bass compilations had been more closely associated with live DJ mix albums of varying quality, and the interest in the Platinum Breaks series proved instrumental in bringing the scene from its underground origins to the brink of mainstream success ( at least in the UK ).

) Before the 2009 season two new high definition video screens were added on the northeast and northwest pillars of the original stadium, bringing the total number of high definition screens in the stadium to five.

Before bringing Supernatural to television, creator Eric Kripke had been developing the series for nearly ten years, having been fascinated with urban legends since he was a child.

Before he can do anything, Jojo knocks out Rocket with a mallet and takes the teleporter down into the park, bringing Whoopie with him.

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

Before his departure, a group of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had given him a luncheon, and Stidger had seen advance sheets of Elmer Gantry.

Before them stalked the beadle, proclaiming as he went, `` Thus the Council deals with those who break its laws -- adulterers, thieves, murderers, and lewd persons.

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 He left them He promised that His peace would be their portion to abide in their hearts and minds.

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 the Dutch retook control of the islands, the British removed many nutmeg trees and transplanted them to Ceylon and other British colonies.

Before presenting " The Emancipation Proclamation " to his Cabinet, Lincoln read to them the latest episode, " Outrage in Utiky ", also known as High-Handed Outrage at Utica.

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 long, the Spanish began growing cacao beans on plantations, and using an African workforce to help manage them.

" Before Diderot ," Anne Louise Germaine de Staël wrote, " I had never seen anything in pictures except dull and lifeless colours ; it was his imagination that gave them relief and life, and it is almost a new sense for which I am indebted to his genius.

First, that the " sword shall never depart from your house " ( 2 Samuel 12: 10 ) second, that " Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.

Before departing for Bennington with the news, Allen was visited by Duane, who offered Allen payments which Duane described in his diary as payment " for going among the people to quiet them ".

* " Before the Day of Judgment there will be great liars, so beware of them.

Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan had eleven reigns of reigning empresses, all of them daughters of the male line of the Imperial House.

Before anime began to be licensed in the U. S., fans who wanted to get a hold of anime would leak copies of anime movies and subtitle them to exchange with friends in the community, thus marking the start of fansubs.

In his book, Two Years Before the Mast ( Chapter VII ), Richard Henry Dana, Jr. described the islands as he found them circa 1834.

Before the gates of the city the Romans defeated the Persians ( Battle of Ctesiphon ), driving them back into the city.

Before the twenty slave girls were distributed among the Spanish captains to serve them in " grinding corn ", Cortés insisted that they be baptized.

Before its establishment, Rulers were immune from any proceedings brought against them in their personal capacity.

Before they went metric, one Swedish mile was 10, 688 metres and a Norwegian mile was 11, 295 metres, so only a small change had to be made to the old mile to make them equal to one myriametre.

Before he left to join the Thirty Years War, he discussed a possible regency with members of the government and admitted to them that his wife was " a miserable woman ".

Names of those Masurs supporting Polish side were published in German newspapers, and their photos presented in German shops ; afterwards a regular hunts were organised after them by German militias which terrorized Polish population At least 3, 000 Warmian and Masurian activists who were engaged for Polish side had to flee the region out of fear of their lives At the same time German police engaged in active surveillance of Polish minority and attacks against Polish activists Before the plebiscite Poles started to flee the region to escape the German harassment and terror

Before them, in 1784, the English chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish had discovered that air contains a small proportion of a substance less reactive than nitrogen.

Before he made that retreat, he telephoned Earl Blackman in Kansas City and asked him to come to Europe with him.

Before losing itself in the sands of the 19th Century, the grand stream of Italian Renaissance architectural decoration made a last appearance in the Brumidi frescos of the Capitol Rotunda in Washington.

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 the 20th century, most manufactured products were made individually by hand.

Before his departure from the city of Split, he had made over to the Templars the Castle of Klis, a strategic point in the hinterland of Split which controlled the approaches to the town.

Before the adoption of carbon fibre composite, racquets were made of light metals such as aluminium.

Before this time bricks were generally made close to their point of intended use.

Before being shot, Dragutin Dimitrijević made a written confession to the court that he had ordered Rade Malobabić to organize the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

Before 1910 the difficulty of harmonizing the Proprium de Tempore and the Proprium Sanctorum, to which reference has been made, was only partly met in the thirty-seven chapters of general rubrics.

Carbon 14 dating of a cave at Laang Spean in northwest Cambodia reveals people who made pots were living in Cambodia as early as 4200 BCE ( Before the Common Era ).

Before Maimonides concluded this, Sunni Muslims officially prohibited mutah ( i. e. temporary marriage ) relationships ; some commentators ' suggest that Maimonides changed his view in response to this development, similar to Gershom ben Judah's ban on polygamy being made after Christians had prohibited it.

After 350, 000 BP ( Before Present ) the more refined so-called Levallois technique was developed, a series of consecutive strikes, by which scrapers, slicers (" racloirs "), needles, and flattened needles were made.

Before that rule change, a forward pass had to be made from 5 or more yards behind the line of scrimmage.

Before he was forced abroad for political reasons, director Jules Dassin made two classic noirs that also straddled the major / independent line: Brute Force ( 1947 ) and the influential documentary-style The Naked City were developed by producer Mark Hellinger, who had an " inside / outside " contract with Universal similar to Wanger's.

Before unification, German territory was made up of 27 constituent states.

Before the Dodd-Frank Act made registration mandatory for hedge fund advisers with more than US $ 150 million in assets under management, hedge funds were primarily regulated through their managers or advisers, under the anti-fraud provisions of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

Before he made this change, however, he set to work on his last major project as active partner: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

Before he died, Rabbeinu HaKadosh said: ‘ I need my sons !… Let the lamp continue to burn in its usual place ; let the table be set in its usual place ; let the bed be made in its usual place .” ( Kesubbos / Ketubot 103a )

Before the widespread availability of incendiary ammunition made commerce raiding too risky, they would also land or hover close to a merchant ship suspected of carrying contraband, order all ship's hands to leave in boats, then inspect the ship, and either destroy it or take it back to Germany as prize.

Before the French and Spanish occupation of Morocco, which started in 1912, the country's defence force was made of a regular Makhzen army, and of a less organized but much more powerful Berber tribes ' militias.

Before his death, Meher Baba had made extensive preparations for a public darshan program to be held in Poona ( now Pune ), India.

Before the release of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Professor Griff, in his role as Minister of Information, gave interviews to UK magazines on behalf of Public Enemy, during which he made homophobic and anti-Semitic remarks.

Before his election as Pope, he served as Bishop of Caere, which made his election controversial, because, at this stage of history, a bishop was expected never to leave office to move to another see.

Before the Han Dynasty ( 202 BC – 220 AD ), Chinese ploughs were made almost entirely of wood, except the iron blade of the ploughshare.