Before meeting Cesare, Leonardo had worked at the Milanese court of Ludovico Sforza for many years, until Louis XII of France drove Sforza out of Italy.

Lieutenant General Ēmile Janssens, the FP commander, wrote during a meeting of soldiers that ' Before independence = After Independence ', pouring cold water on the soldiers ' desires for an immediate raise in their status.

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 meeting Willow, Tara had been painfully shy, in part due to a father who led her to believe that she was demonic.

# Before an APNIC meeting

Before Hurricane David, some 2, 000 persons earned a living fishing in coastal waters, producing about 1, 000 tons of fish a year and meeting only about one-third of the local demand.

Before 2009, the midweek meeting consisted of the Theocratic Ministry School and the Service Meeting ( each 45 minutes ); the Congregation Book Study ( 1 hour ) was typically held on a separate evening, divided into smaller groups meeting in private homes.

Before the meeting took place, French president Jacques Chirac declared on 10 March that France would veto any resolution which would automatically lead to war.

Before 798 the new tribrach type appeared, with a design consisting of three radial lines meeting at the centre.

Before the meeting, he agitated for the voting by head, rather than estate, as a member of the " Committee of Thirty ".

Before meeting Batu, Guyuk died suddenly.

Before the first court date in September 2001, Vreme magazine organized a mediation attempt between the two parties, with Kusturica and Srbljanović meeting face to face in the magazine's offices.

Before a vote is taken at a Council meeting, though, all proposals are circulated in writing to the heads of departments, who commission the senior career officials of their department – the heads of the Federal Offices – to prepare a written response to offer criticism and suggestions.

In McCarthy's words, " Before meeting Jim Forrestal I thought we were losing to international Communism because of incompetence and stupidity on the part of our planners.

Before this meeting came to pass, however, Rutherford abruptly withdrew.

Before Roberts ' switch to Methodism, Crutchfield arranged a meeting between Roberts and Bishop William Angie Smith, at which the Bishop told Roberts, " We need you, but we need the Holy Spirit more than we need you and we've got to have the Holy Spirit in the Methodist Church.

Before meeting Bathsheba, Troy had promised to marry Fanny ; on the wedding day, however, the luckless girl goes to the wrong church.

Before the 200 Pastors and the Brethren from the General Conference present at this meeting, G. Dail, L. R. Conradi, H. F. Schuberth, and P. Drinhaus withdrew their statement about military service and apologized for what they had done.

Before fighting for the world championship, she had to meet the likes of Kim Messer, Elena Reid and former world champion Para Draine before meeting Regina Halmich in Germany for the WIBF world Jr. Flyweight title, on August 17, 2002.

Before meeting Fry and Leela and joining Professor Farnsworth's delivery crew at Planet Express where Bender currently works as the assistant manager of sales, he had a job at the metalworking factory, bending steel girders for the construction of suicide booths.

Before meeting humanity, they had an elephant-sized slug-like form, which communicates by direct neural connection, since they have no vocal organs and no sense of hearing.

Before the signing of the Bologna declaration, the Magna Charta Universitatum had been issued at a meeting of university rectors celebrating the 900th anniversary of the University of Bologna – and thus of European universities – in 1988.

Before it split into two separately listed companies in early 2010, Cable & Wireless suffered one of the biggest shareholder rebellions in 2009 when 38pc of the shareholder register failed to back the company's pay policy at a fiery meeting.

Before Smith became their pastor, twelve of the 25 members attended a prayer meeting about whether or not to close their church: they reported that " the Holy Spirit spoke to them through prophecy " and told them that Smith would become their pastor, that he would want to elevate the platform area, that God would bless the church, that it would go on the radio, that the church would become overcrowded, and that he would become known throughout the world .< ref name = chuck_smith >

Before the SDF-3 joins the attack, Rick asks Max Sterling to join him on the SDF-3 and appoints his daughter, Maia Sterling, to lead Skull Squadron in his place.

Before setting out to cross the Alps, he was re-supplied by a native tribe, some of whose hereditary disputes he had helped solve.

Urras before the settlement of Anarres is the setting for the short story The Day Before the Revolution.

Before setting out he persuades the citizens of Athens to pass the death sentence upon Demosthenes and his followers ( including Hypereides, leader of the Athenian patriotic party ).

Before setting out he turned to the Delphic oracle and the oracle of Amphiaraus to inquire whether he should pursue this campaign and whether he should also seek an alliance.

Before the advent of mass transportation, factories ' needs for ever-greater concentrations of laborers meant that they typically grew up in an urban setting or fostered their own urbanization.

Before setting out, Powell used Hamblin as a negotiator to ensure the safety of his expedition from local Indian groups.

Before setting out for Troy, this type of animal sacrifice is offered.

Before 1997, the bulk of NWR programming was via human voice, with a meteorologist recording each message and setting up a looping broadcast cycle.

Edward is found living alone in the attic of a Gothic castle, a setting that is also used for main characters in Burton's Batman and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Before setting out for the war with Persia, Julian addressed to the Jewish congregations a circular letter in which he informed them that he had " committed the Jewish tax-rolls to the flames ," and that, " desiring to show them still greater favors, he has advised his brother, the venerable patriarch Julos, to abolish what was called the ' send-tax '".

According to the core sourcebooks and the supplementary materials, the history of the setting begins with " Time Before ", where there were the Primordials: vast, unfathomably multifarious eternals similar to the Greek primordial deities or the Outer Gods of H. P.

Before setting off, however, she met Madame de Montespan, who was secretly already the king's lover.

Before setting out he persuaded the citizens to pass sentence of death upon Demosthenes and his followers, who had fled from Athens.

Before the war the RAF had made preparations by setting up burns units in several hospitals to treat the expected casualties.

Before then the method of setting collections in the Kunstkammer was totally unscientific.

#: Shostakovich quotes his setting of the Robert Burns poem " MacPhersen Before His Execution " to colour Yevtushenko's imagery of the spirit of mockery, endlessly murdered and endlessly resurrected, denouncing the vain attempts of tyrants to shackle wit.

Before the end of the first half, Garrincha made a similar play, again setting up Vavá to make the score 2 – 1.

* after this Examinant together with the said Robert Clarke went from the fort to the towne of Galway: vpon whose comeing there was a Court of assembly called where were present the Maior Adermen and burgesses of the towne or the < A > greater part of them, and likewise Mr Patrick Darcy & Mr Martin Lawyeres Before whom this Examinant and the said Robert Clark were called And this Examinant shewing the said warrant before the said assembly, the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin being present, They the said Mr Darcy & Mr Martin Did there publickly declare that it was treason in this Examinant and the said Clark to hinder & deteine the said Armes from them by virtue of the said warrant ( they then pretending themselues to be his Maiesties subjects ) And therevpon committed both of them to the towne gaole of Galway where they remained for the space of 10 or 12 dayes following vntil they were released by the Erle of Clanrickard, And this Examinant further saith That the said Erle of Clanrickard did make an end of the said differences betweene the merchant of the said shipp & the said Robert Clarke, and did assure the said Clarke that all things shold be fairly carried But the said Erle Leaving the said towne of Galway the said Dominick Keghran factor to the said Tho: Linch with divers others, ( by the direction of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin ( as this examinant verely beleeveth went aboard the said shipp & carrjed with them seuerall boats, vpon pretence to vnlade the salt, And vpon their comeing to the said shipp ( the said Clark being at the fort, and some of his men to out of the ship to fetche Ballast ) entered the said ship and killd the Masters Mate and twoe or 3 more of the men aboard the said shipp and wounded seuerall others there, & soe possessed themselues wholly of the said shipp, being of the burden of three hundred tun or thereabouts, And likewise tooke out of the said shipp, about tenn peece of ordinance, which were landed presently, and planted against his Maiesties fort And further this Examinant saith That in the beginning of the Rebellion, vntill such tyme as the said Mr Darcie and Mr Martin came to the towne of Galway, they within the said fort were furnished of such necessaries as they wanted for their moneys But after the comeing of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin to the said towne, the townsmen admitted the Irish people of Err Connaght, to come into the said towne, whoe robbed this examinant and the English Inhabitants within the said towne and Killd & murthered seuerall of them: Amongst which they cut off the heads of one John Fox & his wiffe, and murthered one Mris Collins as she was kneeling at her prayers, And as this examinant hath heard, after the said murders were comitted the Irish tumbled the heads of the heads of the said ffox & his wiffe about the streets, And further saith That at althoughe the said people of Err Connaght had robbed and murthered the English as aforesaid: yet neither the Maior or Aldermen of Galway aforesaid or the said Darcy < A > or Martin did any way punish the offenders, but rather abetted and manteined them in their barbarous cruelties And this Examinant further saith That after, by direction & helpe of the towne of Galway the said fort was s beseiged, And the townsmen of Galway hyred the Cuntry to doe the same Soe that the fort was inforced to yield about the xxvth of June 1643: Wherevpon this Examinant went into the towne of Galway to demand some of his goods according to the quarter given them, And in the meane time the shipping being in the harbour went away & left this examinant behynd Soe as he was inforced to get a Convoy to Bonrattee to the Erle of Thomond, And being there one Dunn servant of Sir Roger ô Shafnusy, related to the Erle of Thomond and him this Examinant, that he sawe the said Richard Martin whoe was then Major of Galway, vpon a Sunday morning with a pick ax in his hand setting people on work to domolish & pull downe the fort of Galway John Turner Jurat.

Before expiring he succeeded, however, in setting fire to the hostel, thus contributing decisively to the Costa Rican victory at Rivas.

Before this very general setting was proposed ( around 1960 ), there had already been substantial developments of automorphic forms other than modular forms.

Before setting out for Paris to crown Napoleon in 1804, Pope Pius VII ( 1800 – 1823 ), signed a document of resignation to take effect if he were imprisoned in France.

The setting is Oxford University in the year 1892 where a group of college seniors are bidding farewell to the years gone by (" The Years Before Us ").

Before it was even officially released, Ferociously Stoned became a regional best-seller, setting a record for advance sales in Eugene's record stores and then remaining for over a year on The Rockets Northwest Top Twenty list, helping expand the Daddies ' touring reach to as far as Alaska and Los Angeles by 1992.

* Halloween Town, the main setting for the 1993 film Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

Before making the step up to the top category of hillclimbing, Fleetwood had previously competed with distinction in smaller-engined single-seater cars, setting several class records in the process.