Before Harmony had a chance to reply, Rod cracked his long whip over his thin oxen's backs.

Before long the atmosphere reverted to its old normalcy, and insects hummed and birds occasionally called.

Before the Second World War, air shows were associated with long distance air races, often lasting many days and covering thousands of miles.

Before finishing the musical, Lerner was eager to write while My Fair Lady was taking so long to complete.

: Before this time, and a long time thereafter, they believed in groves and barrows, sanctuaries, and sacred enclosures and in the pagan gods.

Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were also used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters for long distance service.

Before the publication of Villette, Charlotte received a proposal of marriage from Arthur Bell Nicholls, her father's curate who had long been in love with her.

Before long, the Spanish began growing cacao beans on plantations, and using an African workforce to help manage them.

Before long, and much to the embarrassment of the authorities, the media began to expose severe social and economic problems the Soviet government had long denied and actively concealed.

Before long, bills weren't being paid, authors ' advances and royalties were delayed, budgets were cut back, and most of Donald's time was spent trying to soothe authors and agents who were indignant, and had every right to be, at the way they were treated.

Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having " a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides ".

Before Guam's inclusion, calling the U. S. required dialing the international 011 first, thus resulting in higher long distance rates and less frequent calls to the U. S. by relatives in Guam.

Before long, much to the embarrassment of the authorities, the media began to expose severe social and economic problems which the Soviet government had long denied and covered up.

Before long, powdermakers standardized the process by forcing mill cake through sieves instead of corning powder by hand.

All Genoshan mutants leave for Asteroid M. Before long, the country is taken over by Magneto who is ready to declare war on humanity with the Genoshan mutants by his side, following an attack on Professor X during an anti-mutant summit.

Before long, much of the south and west was under the control of the Nationalists, whose regular Army of Africa was the most professional force available to either side.

Before long, a falcon representing Horus became the norm as the animal on top, with the individual Pharaoh's symbol usually appearing in the box beneath the falcon, and above the stripes representing the palace.

Before long steam power was applied to drive textile machinery.

Before long, scientific inquiries provoked by his claims had pushed back the age of the earth into the millions of yearsstill too short when compared with the accepted 4. 6 billion year age in the 21st century, but a distinct improvement.

Before long, the Americo-Liberian ruling elite was living rather prosperously, sending their children to America for ( often racially segregated ) high school and college education, and keeping the indigenous peoples excluded from all political and economic leadership.

Before long, the Borgia family no longer needed the Sforzas, and the presence of Giovanni Sforza in the papal court was superfluous.

Before long, the CEOs and CFOs of many smaller and mid-sized companies previously limited to the slow and expensive private-placement market were making early-morning pilgrimages to Beverly Hills seeking to issue high-yield and / or convertible bonds through Drexel Burnham.

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 reaching Eastford, however, it takes a right onto Route 244 (" Brayman Hollow Road ") which headed directly to Pomfret.

It is mentioned in Make Room for Lisa, that " Before I learned to chuckle mindlessly, I was headed to an early grave.

Before Allen purchased the team in 1988, the Trail Blazers were owned by a group of investors headed by Larry Weinberg.

Before 1946, he had headed the New York Board of Rabbis, the Jewish National Fund, and the Zionist Organization of America, and helped found the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

Before he can get it, he is blackmailed by various entities, including his own parole officer, a minor Newark Mafia family headed by the Mario brothers ( a reference to Nintendo's Mario Bros .), and the CIA into doing several dangerous art heists with his singing partner in crime, Tommy " Five-Tone " Messina ( Danny Aiello ).

Before the pilot aired ( on September 12, 1959 ), the song sequence, deemed too campy, was edited out of the scene and instead the Cartwrights headed back to the ranch whooping and howling.

What was never in dispute, however, was that the OT used millions of forced laborers ( Zwangsarbeiter ) from the occupied countries of the Reich during World War II, and that the judging panel at the Nuremberg Trials ( formally, the " Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Court ") in 1946 sentenced Speer to 20 years ' imprisonment for having headed this organisation and thus sanctioned the international illegal use of forced labor.

Before his death, he summoned eight of his most prestigious ministers, headed by Sushun, Zaiyuan, and Duanhua, and named them the " Eight Regent Ministers " to direct and support the future Emperor.

Before Simeon could attack, Alexander died on 6 June 913, leaving the empire in the hands of a regency council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos.

Before that, he served as the Prime Minister in the government headed by J. R. Jayewardene from February 6, 1978 to January 1, 1989.

Before this, he also worked as Head Technician of Generalitat's linguistic planning policy ( 1981 – 1988 ) and headed the Cultural Territorial Services of the Generalitat at Tarragona ( 1982 to 1984 ).

Before 1945 the area was part of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia Germany, although Zakrzewo had a very strong and active Polish minority, headed by the parson of a local parish, Bolesław Domański.

Before this happened, all the traffic, headed straight towards the centre of Selby, over a level-crossing and on to a busy traffic-light junction with the A63 from Leeds.

Before him, it was headed by Prof. Mayank Dholakiya.

Before the albums release Slang, now RKL, headed on tour to Europe.

Before his appointment as Prime Minister, Tsugba had headed the Central Election Committee, which had overseen the internationally unrecognised simultaneously held October 1999 presidential election and constitutional referendum.

Before the 2008 – 2009 season Žalgiris had a lot of financial difficulties and were looking for the new investor, in 2009 Sabonis sold most of his stake to a local investment group, Ūkio banko investicinė grupė ( ŪBIG ) which is headed by Vladimir Romanov, which now holds a 75 % interest in the club.

Before the band headed out on the Bleed For Satan tour with Cannibal Corpse and Infernäl Mäjesty, Alzazmon left, and the band's longtime friend Gaahnfaust, who was also in the band back in 1996 for a short time, was recruited.

Before he became head of foreign intelligence, he was working in OGPU / GUGB counter-intelligence and ' Secret Political departments and then he headed the NKVD's counter-intelligence department.

Before Frink died in 1993, she had given master classes at the Sir Henry Doulton School of Sculpture then headed by sculptor Colin Melborne ARA in Stoke-on-Trent, England.

Before embarking on an October – November tour, they headed to Hideaway Studios in Sedalia, Colorado to record two tracks for the album.

Before the Spaniards arrived, the Tainos had a form of government where each region had a tribe headed by a Cacique.

Before starting the TAC, he was a director of the AIDS Law Project based out of the University of the Witwatersrand, which is now headed by Zackie's longtime collaborator Mark Heywood.

Before entering politics, Webster was a farmer, and headed the Auckland branch of the Federated Farmers organisation.

Before his murder, Aldo Moro, a central figure in the Christian Democrat Party, several times Prime minister, was trying to include the Communist Party, headed by Enrico Berlinguer, in the parliamentary majority, an operation called the historic compromise.