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 he was able to leave Africa, Moorish tribesmen invaded southern Spain.

Before the Spanish evacuation, Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania agreed to divide the territory and transfer the major part to Morocco and the remaining southern portion to Mauritania.

Before the current situation, that is, before the implementation of Bologna Process in 2010, a degree in Civil Engineering in Spain could be obtained after three to six years of study and was divided into two main degrees.

Before the Low Countries could be completely reconquered, a war between England and Spain ( the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 )) broke out, forcing Spanish troops to halt their advances and leaving them in control of the important trading cities of Bruges and Ghent, but without control of Antwerp, which was then arguably the most important port in the world.

Before the Iberian Union period ( 1580 – 1640 ), Spain tried to prevent Portuguese expansion into Brazil with the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas.

Before the close of 1768 he was transferred from the northern to the southern department, but he resigned in December 1770 in the midst of the dispute with Spain over the possession of the Falkland Islands.

Before the match, Chilavert claimed he would keep a clean sheet against Spain and score 2 free kicks against their keeper.

Before going to Spain, he had been looking for a property and settled on Llanthony Abbey in Monmouthshire, a ruined Benedictine abbey.

Before the 1982 World Cup ( held in Spain ) former " leftist " Breitner caused a major uproar in Germany when he accepted an offer by a German cosmetics company to pay him the – what many Germans regarded at that time as a " scandalously high " – sum of 150, 000 Deutsche Mark if he shaved off his fluffy full beard, used their fragrance and advertised for the company.

Before the 18th century, the export of Merinos from Spain was a crime punishable by death.

Before flying to Spain to meet with Franco, Warlimont met various Italian intelligence officials to discuss the Spanish Civil War.

Before that, he was the Minister of Defence of Spain from April 18, 2004, in the Government chaired by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Before the end of the war, he died suddenly at Vinaròs on 11 June 1712 and was buried in the El Escorial in Spain.

Before the Eighty Years ' War began, people realized that the West Indies trade might bring great prosperity to the country and that more power might be developed against Spain.

Before Artemisia, between the end of the 1500 and the beginning of 1600 other female painters had successful careers, including Sofonisba Anguissola ( Born in Cremona around 1530 – Palermo around 1625 ), was called into Spain by King Philip II and Lavinia Fontana ( Bologna, 1552 – Rome 1614 ) departed for Rome by invitation of Pope Clement VIII.

Before his death, Petrucci was known to have plotted in secret with Spain and Pope Julius II against his old allies, the French.

Before the declaration of independence of 1816, the supreme directors considered other options, such as to negotiate with Spain or become a British protectorate.

Before his death in January 2008 in Madrid, he divided his time between New Mexico and Spain.

Before Philip II of Spain had a chance to enforce his claim to the crown of Portugal, in 1580, António, Prior of Crato, an illegitimate scion of the Beja line of the House of Braganza Portuguese Royal Family, proclaimed himself king on 24 July 1580.

Before he was 40, he had become a millionaire by pioneering package holidays to Spain.

Before joining Corithians, Iarley played for Ferroviário, Ceará, and Paysandu of Brazil, Real Madrid B, and Melilla of Spain, Boca Juniors of Argentina and Dorados de Sinaloa of Mexico.

Before becoming viscount, Gaston had fought in the Reconquista in Spain, and he led a Béarnais contingent on crusade under Raymond IV of Toulouse in 1096.

Before the end of the Spanish civil war he had to leave Spain.

Before long, only Cádiz remained firmly in Spanish hands, and a difficult war lay ahead to drive the invader from Spain.