Before leaving for America, he happened to see his old friend Jean Arp and confided to him his new resolutions.

Before leaving, he took one last, lingering look at the apartment.

Before leaving the islands, the Japanese rounded up and executed 750 civilians.

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

Before leaving, he buried his sandals, shield, and sword under a huge rock and told her that, when their son grew up, he should move the rock and bring the weapons to his father, who would acknowledge him.

Before leaving, he met Milton Caniff, and the two became lifelong friends.

Before leaving Whorf presented the paper " Stem series in Maya " at the Linguistic Society of America conference, in which he argued that in the Mayan languages syllables carry symbolic content.

Before leaving, Lee learns from his teacher that Han's bodyguard O ' Hara ( Robert Wall ) had been involved in the death of his sister, Su Lin ( Angela Mao ), years ago, when she committed suicide to save herself from dishonour after being cornered by O ' Hara and a collection of Han's thugs.

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 leaving, Rebecca comes to bid Rowena a fond farewell.

These were interrupted by service in the U. S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, where he worked as a codebreaker and participated in the landing at Casablanca. Before leaving for Europe in 1943, Greenberg married Selma Berkowitz, whom he had met during his first year at Columbia.

Before this time, workers showed their fury by leaving their factory and standing in picket lines.

Before leaving for Scandinavia the group took part in a recording session for the P. J.

Before leaving Prestige, however, Davis had to fulfill his obligations during two days of recording sessions in 1956.

Before leaving for Malaysia, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed doctored Hazmi's Saudi passport in order to conceal his travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and make it appear that Hazmi had come to Malaysia from Saudi Arabia via Dubai.

Before leaving Cyprus Richard married Berengaria of Navarre, first-born daughter of King Sancho VI of Navarre.

Before leaving Hollywood for Europe in 1952, following the problematic production The Crimson Pirate for Warner Bros., his third and last film with Burt Lancaster, Siodmak had directed some of the era's best film noirs, more than any other director who worked in that genre, twelve in all.

Before reaching the Lebanese border and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, the Jabal an Nusayriyah range terminates, leaving a corridor — the Homs Gap — through which run the highway and railroad from Homs to the Lebanese port of Tripoli.

Before leaving, he developed acquaintances with senior Bolsheviks including Anatoly Lunacharsky, the People's Commissar for Education, who told him: " You are a revolutionary in music, we are revolutionaries in life.

Before leaving school, towards the end of 1855, he became assistant to the painter and professor Louis ( Lodewijk ) Jan de Taeye, whose courses in history and historical costume he had greatly enjoyed at the Academy.

Before leaving, however, he buried his sandals and sword under a huge rock and told Aethra that when their son grew up, he should move the rock, if he were heroic enough, and take the tokens for himself as evidence of his royal parentage.

Before beginning the story-telling sessions, the ten young Florentines, 7 women and 3 men, referred to as the Brigata, gather at the Basilica di Santa Maria Novella and together decide to escape Black Death by leaving the city to stay in a villa in the countryside for the next two weeks.

Before leaving for Europe, Agnew worked at the Maryland Casualty Company where he met Elinor Judefind, known as Judy.

Before father and son can be reconciled, George is killed at the battle of Waterloo, leaving the pregnant Amelia to carry on as well as she can.

Before leaving, he had the nobles elect and crown his son Henry Berengar king.

Before appealing to the U.N. or to Russia, he first appealed to the U.S. for military help, and was rejected.

Before the development of practical electronic TV, there were patents on mechanically scanned color systems as early as 1889 in Russia.

Before the 1861 abolition of serfdom in Russia, a landowner's estate was often measured by the number of " souls " he owned.

Before 1800, swim bladders of sturgeon ( primarily Beluga sturgeon from Russia ) were used as a source of isinglass, a form of collagen used historically for the clarification of beer, as a predecessor for gelatin, and to preserve parchments.

USSR / The Unified Team / Russia / Ukraine / Belarus / Armenia: Before the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Soviet gymnasts dominated both men's and women's gymnastics commencing with the introduction of the full women's program into the Olympics and the overall increased standardization of the Olympic Gymnastics competition format which happened in 1952.

Before " Molitva russkikh " ( The Prayer of the Russians ) was chosen as the national anthem of Imperial Russia in 1816, various church hymns and military marches were used to honor the country and the Tsars.

Before him, neither Anna of Russia nor Elizabeth of Russia had the " I " ordinal.

Before the end of the year Elizabeth of Holstein also suffered expulsion from Russia, and Bestuzhev remained supreme.

Before World War I, Russia served as a suitable ally for the mentioned purpose.

Before this, messages had to travel across the Atlantic to the Far East via Cape Town and the Indian Ocean, or via London to Russia, then across the Russian landline to Vladivostok, then by submarine cable to Japan and the Philippines.

Before then, the ingredient was not available as it took more time to acclimatize to continental regions like Russia and Ukraine.

Before the colonization of the Americas, Russia was a major supplier of fur-pelts to Western Europe and parts of Asia.

Before 1807, a portion of these tribes were forced to abandon the Budjak by the Tsarist government of Russia, resettling in Crimea, Azov and Stavropol.

Before the eighteenth century, Church Slavonic was in wide use as a general literary language in Russia.

Before Kudirka's death, the first performance of the poem occurred at a concert in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1899.

( Before this period it was known as the " Diocese of the Aleutians and Alaska " from 1870 to 1900 ; before that, it was part of the Diocese of Kamchatka, Russia, from 1840 to 1870, and before that, of the Diocese of Irkutsk, Russia.

Before Yeltsin ’ s resignation, Primakov supported the Fatherland – All Russia electoral faction, which at that time was the major opponent of the pro-Putin Unity, and launched his presidential bid.

When friends and well-wishers pleaded with him to go to America, he would respond: “ Before, in Russia, when the word ‘ Palestine ’ conjured up a waste and barren land, even then I chose to come here in preference to other countries.

Before the first series had finished airing, the BBC had sold rebroadcast licenses to TV channels in twelve countries, including Italy, Norway, Germany, Israel, Russia and the Netherlands.

Before leaving Troppau, however, the three autocratic powers, Russia, Austria and Prussia, had issued, on the December 8, 1820, a circular letter, in which they reiterated the principles of the Protocol, i. e. the right and duty of the powers responsible for the peace of Europe to intervene to suppress any revolutionary movement by which they might conceive that peace to be endangered ( Hertslet, No. 105 ).

Before that, the sea had no distinct name was intermixedly called in Russia as " Indigirskoe ", " Kolymskoe ", " Severnoe " ( Northern ), " Sibirskoe " or " Ledovitoe ".

Before the new constitution was enacted, President Boris Yeltsin had dissolved the Congress of People's Deputies and Supreme Soviet of Russia during the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, although he did not have the formal constitutional powers to do so.