Before the rise of the mendicant orders ( wandering friars ) in the thirteenth century, the daily services were usually contained in a number of large volumes.

Before the revolution Mubarak tolerated limited political activity by the Brotherhood for his first two terms, but then moved more aggressively to block its influence ( arguably leading to its recent rise in public support ).

Before a new employee could rise to the level of mastery, he had to go through a schooling period during which he was first called an apprentice.

Before the rise of Christianity, the pseudepigrapha of Enochic Judaism, which enjoyed much popularity during the Second Temple period, gave Satan an expanded role.

Before reaching Harbor Beach, the winds turned to the northeast and the lake began to rise.

Before the rise of the Mongols in the 13th century, what is now central and western Inner Mongolia, especially the Hetao region, alternated in control between Chinese agriculturalists in the south and Xiongnu, Xianbei, Khitan, Jurchen, Tujue, and other Mongol nomads of the north.

Before Tortosa, across the river, rise the massive Ports de Tortosa-Beseit mountains.

Before the rise of journaling file systems, it was common for an improperly shut-down Unix system's file system to develop a corrupted superblock.

In the 1960 edition, the article on the ark stated that " Before the days of ' higher criticism ' and the rise of the modern scientific views as to the origin of the species, there was much discussion among the learned, and many ingenious and curious theories were advanced, as to the number of animals on the ark ".

Before the rise of large ship companies on Lake Michigan, service was done primarily by owner-operated boats.

Before the rise of cotton in the American South, indigo and rice were also sometimes called plantation crops.

Before the rise of public health care and nursery facilities, almost all Finnish mothers gave birth in saunas.

Before the election, the Tories suggested that it should rise to 66 sooner – by 2016.

Before any of us could rise to examine it, four more lights appeared almost simultaneously, about the same shape, and varying only in size.

Financial settlement periods used to be much longer: Before the early 1990s at the London Stock Exchange, for example, stock could be paid for up to 10 working days after it was bought, allowing traders to buy ( or sell ) shares at the beginning of a settlement period only to sell ( or buy ) them before the end of the period hoping for a rise in price.

Before the rise of Racine, Sainte-Beuve found La Harpe to the best critic of the French school of tragedy.

Before the rise of Birkenhead in the 1820s, it was the largest town in the Wirral Hundred.

Before the rise of the historic tribes, their indigenous ancestors lived along the river for thousands of years.

Before and after the mating season, both males and females make a five to seven note rise on the pitch scale.

Before the " MSG Incident ", Levesque had been booked into the finals of the 1996 King of the Ring tournament during the following summer, but his place-and the push that usually went with it-would instead go to Steve Austin, igniting his rise toward mainstream superstardom and helped the WWF defeat WCW in the Monday Night Wars.

Before the rise of private estates, the only kind of lands were public lands maintained under the old civil administration.

Before Chernenko's rise in the Soviet hierarchy, Kirilenko provided detailed supervision of new party personnel and the economy.

Before the rise of the NSDAP it was the main nationalist party in Weimar Germany composed of nationalists, reactionary monarchists, völkisch, and antisemitic elements, and supported by the Pan-German League.

Before the rise of Newlyn as an important settlement the landing rights and most property within the Newlyn area were owned by the Manor of Alverton.

Before seizing power in 2003, Bozizé's rebel group was equipped and trained in Chad.

Before Stalin's consolidation of power, the Central Committee featured open debate, where even leading officials could be criticised.

Before the development of silicon power rectifier diodes, cuprous oxide and later selenium was used ; its low efficiency gave it a much higher forward voltage drop ( typically 1. 4 to 1. 7 V per " cell ", with multiple cells stacked to increase the peak inverse voltage rating in high voltage rectifiers ), and required a large heat sink ( often an extension of the diode ’ s metal substrate ), much larger than a silicon diode of the same current ratings would require.

Before central power stations were widely introduced it was common for industries, large hotels and commercial buildings to generate their own power and use low pressure exhaust steam for heating.

Before the constitutional rewrite, which was completed in 2000, the president enjoyed more power.

Before 2000, the President had the right to enact regulations on matters not governed by parliamentary law, but this power was removed, and existing regulations were converted into regular statutes by the Parliament.

Before Arbenz come to power in 1951, the Communist movement preferred to carry out many of their activities through the so-called mass organization.

Before long steam power was applied to drive textile machinery.

Before coming to power, the Khmer Rouge also demonstrated characteristics of " the Buddhist ideals of propriety and social justice ", more so than the current government.

Before LG Enhanced IPS was introduced in 2009, the additional transistors resulted in blocking more transmission area, thus requiring a brighter backlight and consuming more power, making this type of display less desirable for notebook computers.

Before the Revolution, despite supporting political reform ( including Bolsheviks elected to the Duma, when opportune ), Lenin proposed that capitalism could ultimately only be overthrown with revolution, not with gradual reforms — from within ( Fabianism ) and from without ( social democracy ) — which would fail, because the ruling capitalist social class, who hold economic power ( the means of production ), determine the nature of political power in a bourgeois society.

Before the cold war began in the late 1940s, Foot favoured a ' third way ' foreign policy for Europe ( he was joint author with Richard Crossman and Ian Mikardo of the pamphlet Keep Left in 1947 ), but in the wake of the communist seizure of power in Hungary and Czechoslovakia he and Tribune took a strongly anti-communist position, eventually embracing NATO.

Before the handover of power, some 300, 000 Kosovars, mostly Serbs, left the province, many had been expelled by the Albanians.

Before colonization the senior queen acted as a check and counterweight to the king's power, both through her direct control of some military forces and her control of rainmaking medicines and rites and of key aspects of the Ncwala national ritual that annually binds the fate of the king and the nation together.

* Before the Chiefs ' first touchdown, he sent in the play " 65 toss power trap.

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 the development of the transformer, electric power distribution primarily used direct current at the same voltage used by motors and lights.

Before October 5, even as opposition grew, Milošević continued to hold significant power.

Before the advent of the CCD beam profiler, the beam width was estimated using the knife-edge technique: slice a laser beam with a razor and measure the power of the clipped beam as a function of the razor position.

Before his death, he is thought to have named Aurelian as his successor, although Claudius ' brother Quintillus briefly seized power.

Before flue-gas desulfurization was installed, the air pollution | air-polluting emissions from this power plant in New Mexico contained excessive amounts of sulfur dioxide.

Before Henry held real power, it was alleged that there was a plot to spirit Eleanor away and deliver her to the king of France ; de Maulay was accused of the plot and fell out of favour.

Before the end of the war, architect Charles Holden drew up plans to redevelop the city centre, but locals were so opposed that the Citizens ' Defence Association was formed and swept to power in the 1945 municipal elections.