Before the formal charter signing in 2000, URI supporters around the world participated together in a project called " 72 Hours for Peace ", in which more than 250 local organizations united in projects promoting peace and justice during the turn of the millennium.

Before signing a bill into law, the President can also ask the Constitutional Tribunal to verify its compliance with the Constitution, which in practice bears a decisive influence on the legislative process.

Before the treaty reached the Senate for ratification, and even before news of its signing reached New Orleans, a massive British invasion force was utterly defeated at the Battle of New Orleans, which made a national hero out of General Andrew Jackson.

Before signing him Canton was averaging 1, 200 fans a game, but 8, 000 showed up for his debut against the Massillon Tigers.

Before the signing ceremony of the Sarbanes – Oxley Act, President George W. Bush met with Senator Paul Sarbanes, U. S. Secretary of Labor | Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and other dignitaries in the Blue Room ( White House ) | Blue Room at the White House on July 30, 2002

Before the trade deadline, the Ducks traded Giguere to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Jason Blake and Vesa Toskala after signing Hiller to a contract extension.

Before signing the group, the label's president, Harold Robinson, was unimpressed with the physical looks of Holt, telling staff he felt Holt was " too dark and too unattractive " to be the lead singer.

Before signing with WWE, Hardy, with his brother Jeff, founded a wrestling organization called Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts ( OMEGA ).

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 the signing ceremony of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, President George W. Bush meets with Senator Sarbanes, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and other dignitaries in the Blue Room of the White House July 30, 2002.

Before signing with the Pirates, Simon signed with the Florida Marlins and New York Yankees in the 2000 season, but did not play in the majors for either franchise.

Before signing a two-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks as an unrestricted free agent in the off-season, Lang embarked on another playoff run with the Red Wings in 2007, but they were halted by the eventual Stanley Cup champions Anaheim Ducks in the semi-finals.

Before signing a peace treaty, however, Britain demanded war reparations in the form of rice for shipment to Malaya, and France refused to permit admission of Thailand to the United Nations ( UN ) until Indochinese territories annexed during the war were returned.

Before signing with Interscope Records, 50 Cent had been in disputes with rapper Ja Rule and his label Murder Inc. Records.

Before the season, Salmon, who was about to finish a four-year contract signed before the season, briefly considered signing with the Arizona Diamondbacks, but instead signed a four-year, $ 40 million extension with the Angels.

Before signing a recording contract, Ward obtained a degree in psychology from Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and had become a schoolteacher.

Before signing the contract, George offers him any wish to prove that he is the Devil.

Before signing to Unisound, Mayhem's Øystein Aarseth had expressed interest in distributing the band through his " Deathlike Silence Productions " label, but due to Aarseth's murder the same year, nothing materialized.

Before he gained prominence as a co-owner of the Celtics, he was part of a group that owned the New York Cosmos, which made international headlines by signing superstar Pelé.

They released two independent albums, Before Our Time in 1987 and Byram Lake Blues in 1989, before signing to SBK Records in the United States and EMI in Canada.

Before the start of the 2012 – 13 season, they made a major coup by signing 2 former Rangers F. C.

Before signing Slipknot, Roadrunner Records were interested in signing Mushroomhead, but Mushroomhead passed on the deal.

Before signing with a major league team, Ordóñez played part of the 1993 season with the St. Paul Saints of the Northern League.

Bleeding: Before modern surgical developments, there was a very real threat that a patient would bleed to death before treatment, or during the operation.

Before Henry held real power, it was alleged that there was a plot to spirit Eleanor away and deliver her to the king of France ; de Maulay was accused of the plot and fell out of favour.

Before Venditti pulled the plug on his " Love Radio ", which eventually signed off the air, it attracted a lot of publicity in the Texas press concerning the rebirth of XERF as a real border blaster.

Before the 386 the only way to switch from protected mode back to real mode was to reset the processor ; after a reset it always starts up in real mode to be compatible with earlier x86 CPUs back to the 8086.

Before shooting, Kevin Smith warned Jason Mewes that he needed to be on point due to the involvement of " real actors ," such as Alan Rickman.

Before the closing of the theatres, all female roles had been played by boys, and the predominantly male audiences of the 1660s and 1670s were curious, censorious, and delighted at the novelty of seeing real women engage in risqué repartee and take part in physical seduction scenes.

Before the advent of valve ( vacuum tube ) technology, early radio enthusiasts used noisy spark-gap transmitters, such as the first spark-gap modulation technology pioneered by the first real audio ( rather than telegraph code ) radio broadcaster, Charles D. Herrold, in San Jose, California, or the infamous Ruhmkorff coil used by almost all early experimenters.

Before entering politics, she worked as a real estate agent.

Before entering politics, Harris was a marketing executive at IBM and a vice president of a commercial real estate firm.

Before 2000, companies generally regarded green buildings as interesting experiments but unfeasible projects in the real business world.

Before the safeguards were installed, the kiss was performed with real risk to life and limb, as participants were grasped by the ankles and dangled bodily from the height.

Before symbolic computation, a number, thinking particularly of a real number, one with an infinite number of digits, was said to be computable if a Turing machine will continue to spit out digits endlessly, never reaching a " final digit ".

Before he can go, though, Diablo asks Johnny if he wants to know his TRUE purpose, the real meaning of his life, but Johnny is so focused on the ugly inseam of his coat that he doesn't pay attention, and ends up disappearing before being told.

Before entering the sports entertainment industry, Psaltis made her living in real estate.

Before symbolic computation, a number — in particular a real number, one with an infinite number of digits — was said to be computable if a Turing machine will continue to spit out digits endlessly.

Before serving in Congress, Obey worked as a real estate broker.

Before he can do any real damage to her, Superman stops him and tells him to let her be.

Before the Multiple Listing Service ( MLS ) was introduced in 1967, when brokers ( and their agents ) only represented sellers, the term " real estate salesperson " may have been more appropriate than it is today, given the various ways that brokers and agents now help buyers through the process rather than merely " selling " them a property.

Before the 2. 6 version of the Linux kernel, processes were the schedulable entities, and there was no real support for threads.

Before considering trends in real data, it is useful to understand trends in random data.

Before and after his time in office, Mr. Schmitt owned a successful insurance and real estate company in New Kensington, which he opened in 1945.

Before the album was released, Cretu was cautious of the response towards the upcoming album, decided to forgo mentioning his and most of the personnel's real name and credited himself as Curly M. C., while the album sleeve contained little information about the background of the project, furthering the mystery about the creators of the album and leading to speculation whether Enigma was a band, a person or a group.

Before they leave, the X-Men outside set up a holographic projector displaying Xavier's profile on the mutant Sabretooth, real name: Graydon Creed, Sr. Discovering that another one of his trusted men was a mutant and seeing Sabretooth's face again, Graydon Creed becomes unstable and begins screaming wildly.