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 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 this season, the Dolphins had never won a playoff game in franchise history, but they surprised the entire NFL by advancing to the Super Bowl with wins against the two previous Super Bowl champions.

The short novel The Word for World is Forest and the short story " The Day Before the Revolution " have also won awards.

Before Grace's debut in the fixture, the Gentlemen had lost 19 consecutive games ; of the next 39 games they won 27 and lost only 4.

Before the start of the new 1999 – 2000 season, Ajax were beaten in their own stadium when Feyenoord won their second Dutch Super Cup title, after a free kick by Patrick Paauwe, which secured a 3 – 2 win.

Before the war Heath had won a scholarship to Gray's Inn and had begun making preparations for a career at the Bar, but after the war he instead passed top into the Civil Service.

Before this promotion Tottenham had won the FA Cup in 1901, making it the only non-League club to do so since the formation of the Football League.

Before their 2010 Stanley Cup victory, the team had not won the Cup since.

Before he had gone to Washington in 1973, he had a reputation as a tough and sometimes harsh teacher, but after his return, he had a reputation as a humorous, considerate, and gentle teacher who won the admiration and affectionate regard of his students.

The lead single from the album " Before You " became a huge radio hit in Canada and she performed the single on the 2000 Juno Awards, where she won two awards for Best Adult / Pop Album and Best Female Artist.

Before that, Carney also won the Golden Globe for Best Actor Musical / Comedy, while Greenfeld and Mazursky were nominated for Best Picture Musical / Comedy.

Before his time four Italian towns had won the honors of Greek publications: Milan, with the grammar of Lascaris, Aesop, Theocritus, a Greek Psalter, and Isocrates, between 1476 and 1493 ; Venice, with the Erotemata of Chrysoloras in 1484 ; Vicenza, with reprints of Lascaris ' grammar and the Erotemata, in 1488 and 1490 ; and Florence, with Alopa's Homer, in 1488.

Before the year was over, however, he was able to avenge that defeat, defeating Montilla by a knockout in round eight, and he won seven of his eight other fights that year.

Before Ruth left Boston, the Red Sox had won five of the first fifteen World Series, with Ruth pitching for the and championship teams ( he was with the Sox for the 1915 World Series but the manager used him only once, as a pinch-hitter, and he did not pitch ).

Before travelling to Argentina for the World Cup, Platini won the first major trophy of his playing career, captaining Nancy to victory in the 1978 French Cup final against Nice and scoring the only goal of the game.

Before his retirement from the sport in the late 1950s, he had won every trophy in the field.

Before leaving Calgary, he was assured by Wood that the UFA would not win more than 20 of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta's 61 seats ; in fact, it won 38.

Before 2010, the publication had only won 2 SPJ awards in its entire history.

He also won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers ' Association, and France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Gun Before Butter.

Before the age of 30, however, he has already won recognition beyond Red circles.

Before his surgery, John had won 124 games.

Before that, Cox was " pleased " to help prepare Fine Gael's first-100-day strategy after it won the Irish general election, 2011.

Before leaving, Archy gives all the prize money he won at the race and tells Jack that he will not be coming home for he had decided to enlist.

Before Burnley won a trophy again, they were relegated to the Second Division in 1896 – 97.

Before the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong from the UK to the People's Republic of China in July 1997, the DP was the largest party-following the earlier success of the pro-democracy camp in the 1991 Hong Kong legislative election, the party won 19 seats in the 1995 Legislative Council election.