Before their departure, the ship of the commander Belisarius was anchored in front of the Imperial palace, and the Patriarch offered prayers for the success of the enterprise.

Before Jim can decide what to do, his unit is ordered to the front.

Before stereo radio was introduced, the most common speaker location was in the middle of the dashboard pointing through perforations towards the front windshield.

Before the launch of X-ray-observing satellites, such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, X-ray observations generally had quite low angular resolution, but when the Moon passes in front of the nebula, its position is very accurately known, and so the variations in the nebula's brightness can be used to create maps of X-ray emission.

I used to be red when I'd play in front of people because I believed they were looking at my hand, which they probably weren't ... Before my accident with my finger occurred, my oldest brother was killed in a car accident and two weeks afterward my younger sister had her big toe cut off.

Before the advent of the starter motor, engines were started by various methods including wind-up springs, gun powder cylinders, and human-powered techniques such as a removable crank handle which engaged the front of the crankshaft, pulling on an airplane propeller, or pulling a cord that was wound around an open-face pulley.

Before the 1966 World Cup the West Stand was demolished again and replaced by a two-tiered structure with 4, 471 seats in the upper tier and retaining a terrace in front of the stand.

Before the special Eid meal is served, young children will line up in front of each adult family member who dispenses Riyals ( Saudi currency ) to the children.

Before the days of motorized vehicles, the word referred to the front or after compartment of a Continental stagecoach.

Before trying again a new stabilizer was added and a steerable front wheel.

Before the 2008 season, the Columbus Crew front office demolished the north stands where the most ardent of Crew supporters stood, in order to build a stage that would provide additional revenue by facilitating concerts and other events.

Before the safety bicycle, bicycles did not have chains and the pedals were typically attached directly to the drive-wheel, thus limiting top speed by the diameter of the wheel and resulting in designs with front wheels as large as possible.

Before the mass production of automatic overdrive transmissions and electronic fuel injection, the traditional front engine / rear wheel drive layout was being phased out for the more efficient and / or integrated front engine / front wheel drive, starting with compact cars.

Before a soft consonant it is, the near-open front unrounded vowel – like in ' lamb '.

Before the arrival of Ford Prefect and the Vogons, Earth's main form of extraterrestrial contact was with " teasers ": bored rich kids who cruise the galaxy looking for planets yet to make interstellar contact, find some isolated spot, land in front of some credulous soul they know no one will ever believe, strut up and down in front of them with " silly antennas on their head " and make " beep-beep " noises at them.

Before the move, the window over the workbench and the one in Michael's front room overlook Porthaven.

Before the elections Levintal made several conciliatory gestures toward Hetz, attempting negotiations with them, the anti-corruption Tafnit party led by Uzi Dayan, and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak over the prospect of forming a united front, but to no avail.

Before wristwatches became popular, gentlemen kept their pocket watches in the front waistcoat pocket, with the watch on a watch chain threaded through a buttonhole.

Before the construction in the 19th century of the busy Embankment, which now runs in front of it, the houses fronted the River Thames.

Most recently Chad stepped out from behind the drum set to front his new project Before Cars, who released the single " Old Chair " in 2006.

Before the race Berger, apparently with the full support of the team, told the McLaren drivers who qualified 1-2 in front of him that he was going to go all out and run as fast as he could without worrying about running out of fuel to give a good show for the fans.

Before the beginning of Operation Barbarossa ( the eastern front campaign against the Soviet Union ) on 22 June 1941, the Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg suggested the administrative division of conquered Soviet territory in the following Reichskommissariate, only the first two of which would become reality through military success:

: Further explanation: Before the liquids and, the tense vowels and are laxed to and, respectively.

* Before ł vowels i and y pronounced like u, eg.

** Before a consonant, the Uralic " laryngeal " * x yielded long vowels at an early stage ( e. g. " wind " → tuuli ), but only the Finnic branch clearly preserves these as such.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

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 this, many of its families were assigned to the old order Liliales: a very large order containing almost all monocots with colourful tepals and without starch in their endosperm.

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

Before leaving, he had stacked all his cultures of staphylococci on a bench in a corner of his laboratory.

Before that time, all sacrifices were counted as sacrifice hits ( SH ), which included both sacrifice flies and bunts.

Before the renovations the entire building was all male, but now every house is co-ed.

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 that, it had been the capital of the Jin, who did not rule all of China.

Before initiating the palace coup against Khrushchev, Brezhnev had talked to several Central Committee members, and had a list which contained all of the Central Committee members who supported ousting Khrushchev.

Before beginning Ideen Husserl's thought had reached the stage where " each subject is ' presented ' to itself, and to each all others are ' presentiated ' ( Vergegenwartigung ), not as parts of nature but as pure consciousness.

Before the Scourge almost all orks were enslaved by other races.

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

Before the widespread use of non-linear editing systems, the initial editing of all films was done with a positive copy of the film negative called a film workprint ( cutting copy in UK ) by physically cutting and pasting together pieces of film, using a splicer and threading the film on a machine with a viewer such as a Moviola, or " flatbed " machine such as a K .- E .- M. or Steenbeck.

Before leaving, in a meeting with all the Papal vicars held on April 29, 1357, Albornoz issued the Constitutiones Sanctæ Matris Ecclesiæ, which regulated all the matters of the Papal States and its division into provinces.

Before this, however, he had become Earl of Aberdeen on his grandfather's death in 1801, and had travelled all over Europe.

Before the Congress opened on 13 June, negotiations between Andrássy and the British Foreign Secretary Marquess of Salisbury had already " ended on 6 June by Britain agreeing to all the Austrian proposals relative to Bosnia-Herzegovina about to come before the congress while Austria would support British demands.

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 long, the Americo-Liberian ruling elite was living rather prosperously, sending their children to America for ( often racially segregated ) high school and college education, and keeping the indigenous peoples excluded from all political and economic leadership.

Before the invention of woodblock printing in China or by moveable type in a printing press in Europe, all written documents had to be both produced and reproduced by hand.

Before the start of the 2010 – 11 season the NBA had an exciting summer with one of the most anticipated free agent classes of all time.

Before 2007, the. ogg filename extension was used for all files whose content used the Ogg container format.

Before its downfall, the Puerto Rico railroad system operated in all major cities, with tracks and stations along most of the coastal towns and direct lines to all major sugar refineries.