Before entering the service, Pfaff for five years did clerical work with a general merchandising and wholesale firm in New Orleans.

Before entering West Point, Poe moved back to Baltimore for a time, to stay with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm, her daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm ( Poe's first cousin ), his brother Henry, and his invalid grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe.

Before entering the university, he would read many other classical works.

Before entering Parliament he had already substituted a High Church Anglican attitude, with its dependence upon authority and tradition, for the evangelical outlook of his boyhood, with its reliance upon the direct inspiration of the Bible.

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

Before his death in January 2006, Rawls ' last performance was a taping for the 2006 telethon that honored Wonder, months before entering the hospital after being diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year.

Before entering politics, the young Jimmy Walker worked as a songwriter, his most popular composition being " Will You Love Me in December ( as You Do in May )?

Before he was allowed to teach, a newcomer entering the state from Tibet or India first had to seek the approval of local authorities.

Before entering politics, she owned a fish and chip shop in Ipswich, a city near Brisbane.

Before entering hibernation, most species eat a large amount of food and store energy in fat deposits to survive the winter.

Ettelaat, an Iranian daily, reported, " Before entering the minefields, the children wrap themselves in blankets and they roll on the ground, so that their body parts stay together after the explosion of the mines and one can carry them to the graves.

Before entering the spaceship, E. T.

Before entering Afghanistan he warned his fighters:

Before entering the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen he won the support of Dithmarschen.

Before entering the dungeon, the dungeoneer is given a knapsack to wear, in which they are to place food found along the way, in order to replenish Life Force ( see below ).

Before entering the United States Military Academy, Custer attended the McNeely Normal School, later known as Hopedale Normal College, in Hopedale, Ohio.

Before entering politics, he was a dentist.

Before entering Cardozo High School and shortly after the Gay family relocated to D. C .' s Deanwood neighborhood in northeastern Washington, he had joined several doo-wop groups in the D. C. area, including the Dippers, which featured his friend Johnny Stewart, brother of R & B singer Billy Stewart.

Before it succeeded in entering the queen's bedroom, Marie Antoinette fled to the king's apartments.

Before entering politics, he studied at Universidad de los Andes in the 1960s.

Before entering state politics, Gallop worked as a tutor and lecturer at both Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia, and was a City Councillor at Fremantle from 1983 to 1986.

Before entering the university, he had begun his literary career at Budapest as contributor and dramatic critic for Der Zwischenact.

Before entering Parliament he worked for N M Rothschild & Sons, the investment bank, and became director of Rothschild Asset Management.

Before entering politics, she worked as a real estate agent.

Before the fighting, the Parliament of England did not have a large permanent role in the English system of government, functioning as a temporary advisory committee, summoned by the monarch whenever the Crown required additional tax revenue, and subject to dissolution by the monarch at any time.

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 dissolution of Parliament, Knox and the other ministers were given the task of organising the newly reformed church or the Kirk.

Before his death, Tarleton had achieved the military rank of General, equal to that held by the overall British Commanders during the American Revolution, and became a baronet and a member of the British Parliament.

Before Sir Philip Goodhart, the former Conservative Chief Whip Patrick Buchan-Hepburn represented Beckenham in Parliament.

Before 1771, the British Parliament had long been a highly secretive body.

Before the Stamford Parliament, however, on 27 June, Gaveston had returned to England.

Before these Acts, Ireland had been in personal union with England since 1541, when the Irish Parliament had passed the Crown of Ireland Act 1542, proclaiming King Henry VIII of England to be King of Ireland.

Before making a Remedial Order, the Government must lay a proposal before Parliament for 60 days, during which time it will be considered and reported upon by the Joint Committee of both Houses on Human Rights.

Before that could happen, Parliament was forced to rely on the help of the regiment against the rebellion by the Fifth Monarchists led by Thomas Venner on 6 January 1661.

Before the trial, a report was carried to the Parliament " as if some busie men had made use of some ill Arts to extort such confession " that a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer was granted for the trial of these witches.

Before its dissolution the assembly had become known as Barebone's Parliament.

Before he is allowed to dissolve the Assembly, the President has to consult the Prime Minister and the presidents of both Houses of Parliament ( article 12 ).

Before a law is enacted, the French President, speaker of either house of Parliament, or, more commonly, 60 parliamentarians from the same house may petition the Council for review.

Before the new Constitution came into force, full formal powers to appoint the Prime Minister and the rest of the Council of State had been the privilege of the President, who was free to diverge from parliamentary principles, although ministers appointed had to have the confidence of the Parliament.

Before the constitutional referendum of 2007, there was a quorum of two-third required in the Turkish Parliament.

Before the Acts of Union 1707 united the English and Scottish parliaments, there was a Heritable Usher of the White Rod who had a similar role in the Estates of Parliament in Scotland.

Before the First Sino Japanese War, China engaged in technological modernization only, buying modern weapons, ships, artillery, and building modern arsenals to produce these weapons, and only giving their soldiers modern weapons without institutional reform, and while refusing to reform the government or civil society according to western standards, unlike Japan, who adopted western style government with a Parliament and completely reoganized the army on western lines.

Before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, the Anglo-Saxon kings had been elected, and even after it Parliament had deposed kings and kings in turn had confirmed their title by Act of Parliament.

Before land elevation made the canals unnecessary, spring floods was a serious problem often forcing the reconstruction of bridges and other structures, but by the 17th century the first canal was scrapped, the second when the Parliament Building was built in the early 20th century.

Before his ten-year presidential term between 2000 and 2010 he held the posts of Speaker of the Croatian Parliament ( 1992 – 1994 ), Prime Minister of Croatia ( 1990 ), the last President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia ( 1991 ), Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement ( 1991 ), a judge in Našice and mayor of his home town of Orahovica.