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 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 we comment further on these pathological conditions, we should remember that changes in the state of the hypothalamus within physiological limits distinguish sleep from wakefulness.

Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.

Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.

Before the formation of Malaysian Federation, the Philippines claimed that the Malaysian state of Sabah in north Borneo is within their territorial rights based on historical facts of the Sultanate of Sulu's leasing agreement with the North Borneo Company, is presently an unresolved claim against Malaysia.

Before 1938, the federal courts, like almost all other common law courts, decided the law on any issue where the relevant legislature ( either the U. S. Congress or state legislature, depending on the issue ), had not acted, by looking to courts in the same system, that is, other federal courts, even on issues of state law, and even where there was no express grant of authority from Congress or the Constitution.

Before the 2008 elections in Bavaria, the CSU perennially achieved absolute majorities at the state level by itself.

Before 1871, in the area where a single state of Germany now exists, different kingdoms and prinicipalities existed.

Before World War II, mechanical and electrical analog computers were considered the " state of the art ", and many thought they were the future of computing.

Before World War I Italy and Austria-Hungary had been instrumental in the creation of an independent Albanian state.

Before the 1990s, unions in Mexico had been historically part of a state institutional system.

Before the actual discovery of mendelevium, the trivalent state was the most stable one in aqueous solution.

Before the war Nazi German state sent undercover operatives to spy on Polish organisations and created lists of people that were to be executed and sent to concentration camps.

* Before the printing press, the state of the written records of cases rendered the stare decisis doctrine utterly impracticable.

Before that, the German question ruptured this " German unity " after the ' 48 Revolution before it was achieved, however ; Austria-Hungary as a multinational state could not become part of the new " German empire ", and nationality conflicts in Prussia with the Prussian Poles arose (" We can never be Germans-Prussians, every time!

Before the arrival of European settlers, the history of the Saharan region is mainly characterized by the consolidation of settlements in large state entities – the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire.

Before the box is opened, the cat, by nature of it being alive or dead, has information about the state of the apparatus ( the atom has either decayed or not decayed ); but the experimenter does not have information about the state of the box contents.

Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels.

Before the consultation could happen, however, in accordance with Santa Anna ’ s nationwide call to disarm state militias, Colonel Domingo Ugartechea, who was stationed in San Antonio, ordered the Texans to return a cannon given to them by Mexico that was stationed in Gonzales.

Before admission to the bar, he was invited to enter politics by local Republican Party leaders upon the death of Cyrus Prentiss, the presumed nominee for the state senate seat for the 26th District in Ohio.

Before conquering Shang, Zhou was a state in Shaanxi.

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