Before giving the abstract definition we give a few examples:

Before Terry, every police encounter constituted an arrest, giving the police officer the full range of search authority.

Before giving a formal definition of universal properties, we offer some motivation for studying such constructions.

Before reclamation and development, the low-lying areas around this hill were largely marsh or tidal wetland, giving the hill much more the appearance of a " ness " than today.

Before Charles's restoration, the Navigation Acts of 1650 had hurt Dutch trade by giving English vessels a monopoly, and had started the First Dutch War ( 1652 – 1654 ).

Before Richard is sent to his death, he " un-kings " himself by giving away his crown, sceptre, and the balm that is used to anoint a king to the throne.

Before giving birth ( usually in May ), the female will excavate a den to house her litter of four to seven kits.

Before giving it to her, Mama adds a healthy amount of cream.

Before the introduction of stamps, it was the recipient of mail — not the sender — who generally paid the cost of postage, giving the fee directly to the postman on delivery.

Before Egill died he allegedly concealed his silver treasure near Mosfellsbær, giving birth to the legend of silfur Egils (" Egill's Silver ").

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 giving its his blessings he set out the goals of such a pilgrimage.

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 she departed the show, Vance was offered a new contract with Desilu Studios, giving her the opportunity to direct.

Before giving his doctrinal exposition of a passage, he first considers its critical state.

Before Malpaso Productions co-founder Irving Leonard died, he and Eastwood discussed a final film, one giving Eastwood the artistic control he desired by making his directorial debut.

Before the election, the Labour Party ( in government ) held 56 seats, giving it an absolute majority in Parliament.

Before his short-lived comeback season in 2011, Forsberg never had a negative plus-minus rating, giving him an overall career rating of + 238.

Before giving lectures at St. George's Hospital, London, in 1895, Livingstone College afforded Manson his first opportunity to teach courses in tropical medicine.

Before the 1902 production of Twirly-Whirly, John Stromberg, who had composed several hit songs for her, delayed giving Lillian Russell her solo for several days, saying that it was not ready.

Before 1812, while Illinois had a first-grade territorial status, Edwards had vast powers to appoint county and local officials ; however, he made it his practice to consider local opinion as much as he could when making appointments, often giving weight to petitions signed by local residents.

Before Cogan was able to publish a second edition, two printers pirated the work, giving the author as " A Gentleman " rather than Hoyle.

Before the album was completed, Patty Valentine had brought a defamation-of-character suit against Dylan, regarding the song " Hurricane " from Desire ; on May 22, while giving a pre-trial deposition in his defense, Dylan was asked about his wealth.

Before leaving the court, Louis was thus instructed by his father: " In sending you to command my army, I am giving you an opportunity to make known your merit ; go and show it to all Europe, so that when I come to die it will not be noticed that the King is dead.

Before the winter break, Hungary managed to beat the minnows of the group Malta thus finishing the fall part of the qualifying in fourth place with six points, mathematically still within striking distance of the leading trio.

Before this date, the most precise measurement of the Imperial Standard Yard was metres.

Before this, other, less precise terms were common to denominate cartels, for instance: association, combination, combine or pool.

Agnes Mongan has written of the portrait drawings: Before his departure in the fall of 1806 from Paris for Rome, the familiar characteristics of his drawing style were well established, the delicate yet firm contour, the definite yet discreet distortions of form, the almost uncanny capacity to seize a likeness in the precise yet lively delineation of features. The preferred materials were also already established: the sharply pointed graphite pencil on a smooth white paper.

Before stating a precise definition of free variable and bound variable, the following are some examples that perhaps make these two concepts clearer than the definition would:

Before the advance of A / B editing systems, most editors only had precise control over two decks — their record deck and one source deck, which was typically the ' A ' deck.

# Before the world party can be formed the precise details of the revolutionary programme will have to be clarified in all its related aspects via discussion and debate amongst its potential constituent parts.

Before descending, the ear pinnae move alternately to help pinpoint the precise location of their prey.

Before the precise definition of computable function, mathematicians often used the informal term effectively calculable.

Before March 5, 1973, Telnet was an ad-hoc protocol with no official definition.

Before they were replaced in 1961, there was a period when, by the " within earshot " definition, no " Bow-bell " Cockneys could be born.

Before the definition of the genre of fantasy, many works that would now be classified as fantasy were termed " fairy tales ", including Tolkien's The Hobbit, George Orwell's Animal Farm, and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Before NATO defined the term, the British and Commonwealth armies generally used “ neutralisation ” with the same definition as suppression.

Before the 2007 season, a new, $ 2. 9 million, high by wide high definition Daktronics LED video display was installed in the south end-zone of Jordan – Hare Stadium.

Before the cell is photolithographically defined and etched, the top electrode is deposited as a metal film onto the CNT layer so that the top metal electrode is patterned and etched during the definition of the NRAM cell.

Before HTML 4 and CSS, very few HTML elements supported both border and padding, so the definition of the width and height of an element was not very contentious.

Before it became the newest Cuban music and dance craze, timba was a word with several different uses yet no particular definition, mostly heard within the Afro-Cuban genre of rumba.

Before giving the definition of channel capacity, the preliminary notion of the norm of complete boundedness, or cb-norm of a channel needs to be discussed.

Before the Charities Act 2006 the definition of charity arose from a list of charitable purposes in the Charitable Uses Act 1601 ( also known as the Statute of Elizabeth ), which had been interpreted and expanded into a considerable body of case law.

" Before May 10, 2009, WFLD was the only major station in the market not airing its newscasts in high definition.

Before the current general definition of topological space, there were many definitions offered, some of which assumed ( what we now think of as ) some separation axioms.

Before giving a rigorous definition of a jet, it is useful to examine some special cases.

Before the definition of Taurus Poniatovii, some of these had been part of the obsolete constellation " River Tigris "

Before these methods and techniques are discussed in detail a definition of an enterprise architecture is given:

) Before the 2009 season two new high definition video screens were added on the northeast and northwest pillars of the original stadium, bringing the total number of high definition screens in the stadium to five.

Before the introduction of the " HD ready " certification, many TV sources and displays were being promoted as capable of displaying high definition pictures when they were in fact SDTV devices ; according to Alexander Oudendijk, senior VP of marketing for Astra, in early 2005 there were 74 different devices being sold as ready for HD that were not.