:: The Christ was Jesus ' spiritual selfhood ; therefore Christ existed prior to Jesus, who said, " Before Abraham was, I am.

Before 2007 there existed only a few other places on the Formula 1 calendar with a body of water close to the track.

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

Before insurance was established in the late 17th century, " friendly societies " existed in England, in which people donated amounts of money to a general sum that could be used for emergencies.

Before we were born, we existed in a perfect world where we knew everything.

Before text editors existed, computer text was punched into punched cards with keypunch machines.

Before the Enclosure Acts of 1750, the Ridgeway existed as an informal series of tracks across the chalk downs, chosen by travellers based on path conditions.

Before the summer 2006 offensive began, indications existed that soldiers in Afghanistan had lost influence and power to other groups, including potentially the Taliban.

Before 1150 only a few translated works of Aristotle existed in Latin Europe ( i. e. excluding Greek Byzantium ), and they were not studied much or given as much credence by monastic scholars.

Before the arrival of the Portuguese, slavery had already existed in Kongo.

Before 2001, when Gruyère gained Appellation d ' Origine Contrôlée ( AOC ) status as a Swiss cheese, some controversy existed whether French cheeses of a similar nature could also be labeled Gruyère ( French Gruyère style cheeses include Comté and Beaufort ).

Before 1955, the option existed of blessing the baptismal font on the Vigil of Pentecost, and this was the only time the Paschal candle would be lit at services after Ascension.

" Before repressive tolerance became a tactic of the past, Oz could fool itself and its readers that, for some people at least, the alternative society already existed.

Before the city of Cabot existed, an 1862 typhoid epidemic took the lives of about 1500 Confederate soldiers previously under Allison Nelson who were camped in the hills surrounding Cabot and nearby Austin, Arkansas.

Before the establishment of the Chickamauga Post in 1902 by United States Army, an unincorporated city existed, where Fort Oglethorpe was later established, called Hargrave, Georgia after the name of the land owner and ex-Confederate soldier, William Hamilton Hargrave.

Before that, the Proto-Tethys Ocean existed from the Ediacaran ( 600 Ma ) into the Devonian ( 360 Ma ), and was situated between Baltica and Laurentia to the north and Gondwana to the south.

Before the era of printing, manuscripts were handwritten, and so few copies existed, explaining why so much has been lost.

Before the war about 151, 000 farmsteads existed in the Lands of Bohemian Crown, while only 50, 000 remained after the year 1648.

Before the significant increase in atmospheric oxygen almost all life that existed was anaerobic, that is, the metabolism of life depended on a form of cellular respiration that did not require oxygen.

The Beringian land bridge is believed to have existed both in the glaciation that occurred before 35, 000 Before Present ( BP ) and during the more recent period 22, 000-7, 000 years BP.

Before that, simply as brigadeiro, it existed from 1707 to 1864 and again from 1929 to 1947, not being considered a general rank.

There is a marina at 79th Street and also a kayak launch at 148th St. Before the park existed, Edgar Allan Poe liked to sit on rocky " Mount Tom " at 83rd Street.

Before that time, a sideline with only a small amount of space ( typically 6 " to 12 ") existed between the sideline stripe and the barrier which would provide the space for a ball carrier to step out of bounds before hitting the sideline barrier.

Before the internet existed, the duo were a phenomenon surrounded by their own culture, analogous to the Twilight craze.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

Before that, in two separate experiments, Frederick Griffith and Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty had shown that DNA led to the transformation of one strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae to another that was more virulent.

Before 1814, the history of nobility is separate for each of the eleven provinces that make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Before the separate federal Department of Education was created in 1979, it was called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare ( HEW ).

Before then, the networks relied on separate regional networks in the two time zones for live programming, and the West Coast received network programming from kinescopes ( films shot directly from live television screens ) originating from the East Coast.

Before the revision of 1983 these were combined in a separate Chapter 10 ; the articles as such remained largely unchanged in 1983, but were finally fully revised in 2000.

Before 1 January 1999, it was the capital of the separate Słupsk Voivodeship.

Before his official adoption as a Roman deity, Liber was companion to two different goddesses in two separate, archaic Italian fertility cults ; Ceres, an agricultural and fertility goddess of Rome's Hellenised neighbours, and Libera, who was either Liber's female equivalent or became so through assimilation.

Before this, General Officers had considered this approach to battle as separate events.

Before 2009, the midweek meeting consisted of the Theocratic Ministry School and the Service Meeting ( each 45 minutes ); the Congregation Book Study ( 1 hour ) was typically held on a separate evening, divided into smaller groups meeting in private homes.

Before the 12th century, when drainage and embankment efforts led by monks began to separate the land from the estuarine mudflats, the Wash was the tidal part of The Fens that extended as far as Cambridge and Peterborough.

Before the development of separate doctrinal publications, many nations expressed their military philosophy through regulations.

Before 1989, the city had traditional, separate police and fire departments.

Before 2005, Dinxperlo was a separate municipality, covering the town of Dinxperlo itself and the village of De Heurne.

Before the band's 1973 – 74 world tour, Hayward wrote a song called " Island " with the intention of including it on a potential follow-up album, which the Moodies recorded in 1973 before ultimately going their separate ways.

Before the next recordings, John Cipollina, David Freiberg, and Nicky Hopkins all went their separate ways.

Before the introduction of gas generally in the parish there was a limited supply from the Mill to separate houses.

Before that time, the two were separate, and evil had only a nebulous existence in potentia.

Before 1 February 2011 Archives New Zealand was a separate government department.

Before the creation of the office of a Prime Minister in 1876, Sweden did not have a head of government separate from its head of state, namely the King, in whom the executive authority was vested.

Before 1876, when the office of a single prime minister was created, Sweden did not have a head of government separate from the King.

Before the passage of the Presidential Succession Act, succession was setup to keep the Executive branch of the Presidency separate from the Legislative branch.

Before his death in the crash, Lloyd Dubroff bought four separate life insurance policies, each for US $ 750, 000.

Before the Ayyubid takeover, there were no schools for the Hanbali and Maliki denominations in Syria, but the Ayyubids founded separate schools for them.