Before even graduating from his apprenticeship, Westervelt accepted an offer to start business in Charleston, where he undertook the construction of two schooners, with the help of African American slaves from planters in and around Charleston ( with his employer's consent ).

Before definitely giving its consent to peace negotiations, the Roman Church determined on making a last effort to reduce the Hussites to subjection ; this resulted in the 5th Crusade against the Hussites.

Before leaving Boston, Coggeshall and many other Hutchinson supporters signed a compact in March 1638 agreeing to form a government based on the individual consent of the inhabitants.

The priest works for the court as a chaplain, and tells K. a fable, ( which has been published separately as Before the Law ) that is meant to explain his situation.

The spokesperson for Agudath Israel of America, Rabbi Avi Shafran, attacked the film with an article " Dissembling Before G-d ", maintaining that gay people can be cured through therapy, and that the movie is meant to promote homosexuality:

According to Richard Jeffrey, " Before the middle of the seventeenth century, the term ' probable ' ( Latin probabilis ) meant approvable, and was applied in that sense, univocally, to opinion and to action.

Next, Burton wrote and produced ( but did not direct, due to schedule constraints on Batman Returns ) The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ) for Disney, originally meant to be a children's book in rhyme.

In The Nightmare Before Christmas, there is a character in Halloween Town who is clearly meant to be a version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Before the Oklahoma toll-road to Joplin was opened in 1959, this landmark on US Route 60 meant " Welcome to Missouri ".

Before the computer era, plaintext most commonly meant message text in the language of the communicating parties.

Before the development of the double acting piston, the linkage to the beam and the piston rod had been by means of a chain, which meant that power could only be applied in one direction, by pulling.

Before the advent of mass transportation, factories ' needs for ever-greater concentrations of laborers meant that they typically grew up in an urban setting or fostered their own urbanization.

Before preservation, the station had contained only a fan of sidings, which meant that there was no way for the locomotive of an arriving train to run round the carriages.

Before even experiencing it for himself, he began to devise tactics meant to give the slower-turning American F4F Wildcat fighters a chance in combat.

Before that, to streak in English since 1768 meant " to go quickly, to rush, to run at full speed ", and was a re-spelling of streek: " to go quickly " ( c. 1380 ); this in turn was originally a northern Middle English variant of stretch ( c. 1250 ).

Before then, the word " science " simply meant knowledge and the label of scientist did not exist.

Auchinlecks order effectively meant that Pienaar could only hold the box with one under-strength brigade Before these troops could be returned, battle was joined with the 90th Light Infantry Division in the early morning hours of 1 July.

Before U Nu became Prime Minister, he had translated, in the late 1930s, Dale Carnegie's book, How to Win Friends and Influence People ( Lupaw Luzaw Louknee in Burmese-in retranslaton it roughly meant ' How to Take Advantage of Man by Man '); later the translated name was changed to the more palatable ' Meikta Bala Htika ' which can be retranslated as A Treatise on Friendly Social Contract.

Before his sentencing, Brady had stated that " no one is above the law " and he would accept " every consequence " of his actions, even if that meant a jail sentence.

Before they were broken up and sold by Henry VIII, monasteries had been one of the important parts of social welfare, giving alms and looking after the destitute, and their disappearance meant that the state would have to adopt this role, which culminated in the Poor law of 1601.

Before 1923, executions in the United States were the responsibility of the counties and in Alabama this generally meant by hanging.

He said, " Before the war started I switched to opposition on practical grounds ( i. e., that George W. Bush's approach was incapable of accomplishing the goals it was meant to accomplish ).

Before 1925, the astronomical time 00: 00: 00 meant noon, twelve hours after the civil time 00: 00: 00 which meant midnight.

Before Kempthorne's appointment, Risch, a former Ada County District Attorney and state Senator, had committed to a reelection campaign for Lieutenant Governor, which meant the campaign for the governorship remained open.

Before 1903, the latest attempted use of a veto was going to be at the 1846 conclave, but the cardinal whom the Austrian Emperor had entrusted to issue the veto arrived too late, finding the conclave over and that Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, the man he was meant to veto, publicly announced as Pope Pius IX.

Legal problems resulting from Beyond's bankruptcy meant it would be four years before Better than Ezra's next studio album, Before the Robots.

Before Connelly the test was whether the confession was voluntary considering the totality of the circumstances.

Before the establishment of the leidang, the defence of the realm was probably based on voluntary contribution to a defence-fleet.

Before the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, military service in the GDR was voluntary, though the Free German Youth and public schools mounted intensive recruitment drives and service in the NVA was often a prerequisite for career advancement.

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Before being elected to the European Parliament, Corbett worked in the voluntary sector and as a civil servant, later becoming a policy advisor to and then Deputy Secretary General of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament.

Before its introduction, there had been no right of access to government by the general public, merely a limited voluntary framework for sharing information.

Before the United States defeat in the Second Mexican War, military service was voluntary.

Before May was out he was once more in Rome in answer to a summons for the countess Matilda of Tuscany, whose troops held the Leonine City and Trastevere, but when at the end of June the antipope once more gained possession of St. Peter's, Victor again withdrew at once to his Monte Cassino abbey.

Before he could take delivery, French sailors had to fight Greek brigands for possession.

Before the manuscript came into Cotton's possession, it was in the library of Henry Savile of Bank in Yorkshire.

( Before then, since the 12th century, the King of England had been overlord of the Lordship of Ireland, a papal possession.

Before the addition of the end zone, forward passes caught beyond the goal line resulted in a loss of possession and a touchback.

Before the close of 1768 he was transferred from the northern to the southern department, but he resigned in December 1770 in the midst of the dispute with Spain over the possession of the Falkland Islands.

Before the manuscript came into Cotton's possession, it was in the library of Henry Savile of Bank in Yorkshire.

Before the 2003 war, as U. S. government officials were pushing the idea that Saddam Hussein was in possession of WMD, many people would direct reporters toward David Kay to reinforce their point of view.

Before the two-platoon game became standard in the 1940s, a single platoon game was the norm, where the same players played both offense and defense, each player continuing to hold a position on the field no matter which side had possession of the ball.

Before coming into the possession of St John's, it was the main property of St. Chad's College.

Before Mohammed's wife was deported back to Somalia by the Kenyan government, a computer in her possession thought to have been Mohammed's was seized and was said to have " contained vital information on terrorism training and intelligence collection including spying ".

Before Bartlett takes possession of the coin, John Chen is kidnapped and murdered.

Before that, he took possession of Dharavi.

Before coming into the possession of Indianapolis, the land was owned by Purdue University, and by Josiah K. Lilly Jr. before that.

Before the manuscript came into Cotton's possession, it was in the library of Henry Savile of Bank in Yorkshire.

Before his death in 1341 Gediminas divided his domains, leaving the youngest son Jaunutis in possession of the capital Vilnius, with a nominal priority.

Before making their profession the nuns divest themselves of all their goods, their monasteries being responsible for supplying their wants, and whatever they may earn or receive is turned over to a common fund, the monasteries having right of possession.

Before his father's death in 1446, he took possession of Dunbar Castle, without authority ; Joan Beaufort, the Queen-Dowager, resided there for some time while he held it.

Before getting executed, he gives a coin, his only possession, to the priest that has come with him, and asks him to give it to the poor.