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 then, the government was a Crown colony consisting of either colonial administration solely ( such as the Executive Council ), or a mixture of colonial rule and a partially elected assembly, such as the Legislative Council.

Before the war ended, the colony fell under the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

Before Haiti established its independence from French administration in 1804, Haiti ranked as the world's richest and most productive colony.

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American ( Indian ) and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U. S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.

Before World War I there was a well-known colony of Molokans that had been exiled to the Caucasus ( an area long within Russian hegemony ), mainly to what is now Armenia, Azerbaijan, and eastern Turkey ( Kars plain ).

Before 1841, the territory roughly corresponding to Southern Ontario in Canada belonged to the British colony of the Province of Upper Canada, while the southern portion of Quebec and the Labrador region of Newfoundland and Labrador belonged to the colony of the Province of Lower Canada ( until 1809, when Labrador was transferred to the colony of Newfoundland ).

Before the Province of New York was granted county subdivisions and a greater royal presence in 1683, the early ducal colony consisted of York Shire, as well as Albany and Ulster, after the three titles held by Prince James: Duke of York, Duke of Albany, Earl of Ulster.

Before World War II, the southern third of Vietnam was the colony of Cochinchina, which was administered as part of French Indochina by a governor in Hanoi.

Before he had left the colony, White had instructed them that if anything happened to them, they should carve a Maltese cross on a tree nearby, indicating that their disappearance had been forced.

Before the novel's opening, " hyper-assistance ", a technology allowing travel at a little slower than the speed of light, is used to move a reclusive space station colony called Rotor from the vicinity of Earth to the newly discovered red dwarf, Nemesis.

Before he had left the colony, White had instructed them that if anything happened to them, they should carve a Maltese cross on a tree nearby, indicating that their disappearance had been forced.

Before its control by the Roman Republic, Surrentum was one of the towns subject to Nuceria, and shared its fortunes up to the Social War ; it seems to have joined in the revolt of 90 BC like Stabiae ; and was reduced to obedience in the following year, when it seems to have received a colony.

Before finding and invading a host colony, a Psithyrus female ( there is no caste system in these species ) will feed directly from flowers.

Before this final devastation, many refugees manage to escape to the Moon, Mars, and Asterome, an orbiting colony situated inside a hollowed-out asteroid at the Moon's L5 point.

* Before Ghana became independent in 1957, it was a British colony called Gold Coast.

Before the Yugoslav wars, the two towns had a joint art colony Groharjeva kolonija.

Before becoming the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2002, he was the UN Transitional Administrator in East Timor from December 1999 to May 2002, guiding that former Portuguese colony occupied by Indonesia to independence.

Before sailing with the fleet, he arranged with the London publishing firm of Debrett's to write a book describing his experience of the journey and the first few months of the colony.

Before the Revolutionary War, indigo accounted for more than one-third of the total value of exports from the colony.

Before Siadous was transferred back to France, he gave Belbenoît a one year permit to leave the penal colony.

Before Nohman can completely destroy Jehuty, the Atlantis blows a hole in the wall and covers Jehuty's escape while Nohman leaves the colony with the remainder of his invasion force.

Before Mrs. Frisby's arrival, a group of seven rats led by a rat named Jenner left the colony because they disagreed with " The Plan ", and are presumed to have died in an accident at a nearby hardware store.