( Before the season, Taylor had informed the team that instead of returning to the Packers in 1967, he would become a free agent and sign with the expansion New Orleans Saints.

Before returning to Bhutan from Switzerland, Jigme Dorji met with the Indian Secretary General and Foreign Secretary in Calcutta who offered Indian support, including paratroopers if necessary, to help the Druk Gyalpo restore order in the kingdom.

Before returning to Constantinople, Basil II celebrated his triumph in Athens.

Before returning, Darius also conquered many cities of the northern Aegean, while Macedonia submitted voluntarily.

Before returning to Rome, Berlioz composed the overtures to King Lear in Nice and Rob Roy, and began work on a sequel to the Symphonie fantastique, Le retour à la vie ( The Return to Life ), renamed Lélio in 1855.

Before returning to Africa, the Vandals took Licinia Eudoxia and her two daughter as hostages: according to the 6th century historian John Malalas, at the time Olybrius was in Constantinople.

Before returning to England to become the new Foreign Secretary, writer, soldier and diplomat Robert Conway has one last task in 1935 China: to rescue 90 Westerners in the city of Baskul.

Before landing, the rider stops the spin by returning the feet to the board as it nears its original position.

Before returning to prison, she committed suicide.

Before returning to Amber he hides the Jewel of Judgment on Earth.

Before returning to America, however, he signed on February 6, 1778 the treaties of amity and commerce and of alliance with France, which he and the other commissioners had successfully negotiated.

* Before he was taken hostage, the satirical programme, Spitting Image, featured a puppet of Waite returning from his foreign trips laden with duty-free goods which he would bring surreptitiously to an eagerly waiting Robert Runcie.

Before returning to America, Lafayette and the French force learned that they would be operating under American command, with Washington in control of military operations.

Before returning to his family he finds his shot had found its mark.

Before returning to England in 1768, they were both admitted to the American Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge, in Philadelphia.

Before returning to Japan, Nosaka gained Stalin's endorsement for the leadership of the Japanese Communist Party.

Before returning to Japan, Nosaka advised Joseph Stalin to retain the position of the Japanese Emperor, but to replace Emperor Hirohito with Crown Prince Akihito if the Communists ever gained control of Japan.

Before returning to social and political activism, Rubin made a visit to Cuba despite the law forbidding Americans to travel there.

Before returning to Syria, where he is now buried next to Ibn Arabi at Jabal Qasioun Shami initiated, trained and deputized the son of the local emir, Abu Ahmad Abdal.

Before returning to Scotland, they visited several of the chief American cities, and his experience strengthened Jeffrey in the conciliatory policy he had advocated towards the States.

Before returning to prison, Valjean visits the dying Fantine and promises to find and look after her daughter Cosette.

Before 1949, there were five main department stores in Hong Kong and Shanghai: In Hong Kong: Lane Crawford-In 1850 founded by Thomas Ash Lane and Ninian Crawford, opened in Des Voeux Road Hong Kong ; Wing On-In 1907 Kwok's family returned to Hong Kong from Australia with accumulated savings and founded the Wing On Company ; Sincere-Founded by Ma Ying Piu in 1900 after returning from Australia and partnership with others to form the first Chinese department store in then British Hong Kong.

Before Andros ' departure for England, the dominion was effectively dissolved, with colonial governments replaced by that of the dominion returning to power.

Before returning home he also visited Kristiania ( Oslo ) to take part in a celebration of the Norwegian philosopher Marcus Jacob Monrad.

Before its breach, this weir had kept ice upriver longer, allowing it to melt.

Before anyone can move, tiles are drawn and laid out across the board.

Before construction of the Panama Canal, a stagecoach line owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company connected the lake with the Pacific across the low hills of the narrow Isthmus of Rivas.

Before the Enclosure Acts of 1750, the Ridgeway existed as an informal series of tracks across the chalk downs, chosen by travellers based on path conditions.

Before the company was acquired, it performed searches across search engines such as Google, Yahoo !, Ask. com and others.

Before 1870, westward movement in the USA was largely across the plains with little or no settlement occurring.

Before printing occurs, the frame and screen must undergo the pre-press process, in which an emulsion is ' scooped ' across the mesh and the ' exposure unit ' burns away the unnecessary emulsion leaving behind a clean area in the mesh with the identical shape as the desired image.

Before 1995, the eastern boundary of the city of Takoma Park was in Prince George's County, Maryland, causing the community to be divided across two counties and the Maryland / D. C.

Before 1960, Thimphu consisted of a group of hamlets scattered across the valley including Motithang, Changangkha, Changlimithang, Langchupakha, and Taba, some of which constitute districts of the city today ( see below for district details ).

Before Windows 2000, Windows was vulnerable to this because the COM class table was shared across all users and processes.

Before his death, however, Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople had drawn up the Ecthesis in response to the orthodox synodical letter of Sophronius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and on learning of the death of Pope Honorius had convinced the Emperor to issue this document as an imperial edict in December 638, thus valid across the entire empire.

Before Tortosa, across the river, rise the massive Ports de Tortosa-Beseit mountains.

* Umberto Eco's novel The Island of the Day Before ( 1995 ) ( L ' isola del giorno prima, 1994 ), a story about a 17th-century nobleman marooned across the international date line

Before the invention of spinning yarn or weaving fabric, archaeologists believe Stone Age people across Europe and Asia sewed fur and skin clothing using bone, antler or ivory needles and " thread " made of various animal body parts including sinew, catgut, and veins.

Before dawn on March 16, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa led several hundred of his rebel soldiers across the Mexican border into the southern county village of Columbus.

Before this, access was by means of a hand-operated ferry that was hauled across using a chain on the riverbed.

Before the 17th century, the Pequot had established an empire across southeastern Connecticut.

Before Lake Arthur, first settled was a little village that was south and across the lake called Lakeside and also the area called Shell Beach.

Before a railroad bridge was built across the Missouri, freight cars were pushed onto barges on one side of the river, then pulled off on the other.

Before the incident, Pleasureland and Muller's Park were popular summer destinations that had since the 1950s and earlier ( Muller's was built in 1935 ) attracted families from across the Tri-state area.

Before moving to their £ 129 million headquarters in the outskirts of the town in 2002, Vodafone used 64 buildings spread across the town centre.

Before the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge was built, ferries carried passengers across the Akashi Strait in Japan.

Before embarking on a third leg in the fall of 2005, Queensrÿche toured with Judas Priest across North America, playing an hour-long set consisting mostly of the band's older works and one song from the soon-to-be released sequel, entitled " I'm American.

Before the war, many observers believed the US and its allies could win but might suffer substantial casualties ( certainly more than any conflict since Vietnam ), and that the tank battles across the harsh desert might rival those of North Africa during World War II.

Before the PCT was planned, Martin Papendick was the first known person to hike across the three states of the PCT in 1952.