Before embarking on a sea voyage, planning and preparation will include studying charts, almanacs and navigation books and recent weather conditions of the route to be followed.

Before giving a formal definition of universal properties, we offer some motivation for studying such constructions.

" Some scholars hold that Jesus ' quote " Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you ", is based on a Jewish figure of speech referring to studying the Torah.

Before taking up a scholarship to study at University College, Oxford, Sorley spent a little more than six months in Germany, three months of which were at Schwerin studying the language and local culture.

Before each meal, the College grace is recited by a scholar, or student studying a field related to Literae Humaniores.

Before and after games, he spent an increasing amount of time studying and photographing old sports stadiums.

Before being formally installed as president in 1876, he spent a year studying university organization and selecting an outstanding staff of teachers and scholars.

Before studying chemistry, Bergius was sent to work for 6 months at the steel works in Mühlheim.

( Before Trip, there was a woman who fell in love with a Vulcan in disguise when he, along with one of T ' Pol's ancestors, crashed on planet Earth while studying the first man-made satellite.

Before entering into his new duties he travelled through the greater part of Germany, studying the systems of education which were in use, and visiting the seminaries of the Jesuits as well as those of the Lutheran and Reformed churches.

Before she met and married Frank Fletcher, Jessica was studying at Harrison College in Green Falls, New Hampshire to become a journalist.

Before his studies were complete, his father died and he was unable to continue studying ; he commenced work as a clerk at the Kawasaki Bank.

Before studying with Hofmann, however, Cherkassky auditioned for Sergei Rachmaninoff, who advised him to give up performing for at least two years and to change the position of his hands at the keyboard.

Before earning his bachelor's degree, Bridges spent his junior year in England studying at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, living in a tiny basement flat in Chelsea, and attending West End theatre productions on free passes.

Before studying singing with the Estonian baritone Aleksander Arder in Yaroslavl, where an Estonian cultural centre had been established, Ots was a young Navy Officer who had escaped a sinking ship and was taken prisoner in Russia.

Before dying himself of old age, Astorr passes on his role as ‘ Infinity-Man ’ to Drax, who then spends several years studying in preparation.

Before long, leading bowlers like John Frame and Lumpy Stevens were studying flight and working out line and length variations.

Before studying the Arabic language, he learned Turkish and French.

Before completing the program, La La spent 4 months studying with one of Akbar's senior students, Partho Chatterjee, in Calcutta India.

Before the actual process of cell death is precipitated by enzymes, apoptotic signals must cause regulatory proteins to initiate the apoptosis pathway.

Before the actual discovery of mendelevium, the trivalent state was the most stable one in aqueous solution.

Before the actual trial could be held, Clement persuaded Philip to leave the question of Boniface's guilt to the Council of Vienne, which met in 1311.

Before the 2010 regulations, the complete list of the actual and theoretical varieties also included Pinot de Juillet and Pinot Rosé.

Before starting the actual reading, the reader will typically try to elicit cooperation from the subject, saying something such as, " I often see images that are a bit unclear and which may sometimes mean more to you than to me ; if you help, we can together uncover new things about you.

Before actual work began, three main buildings were demolished: the palace of the Archbishop, the Ordinari Palace and the Baptistry of St. Stephen at the Spring, while the old church of Sta.

Before the English translation of Japanese name to Zeon was canonized by Nippon Sunrise in the late 1990s, it was sometimes translated as Zion or Jion, with the latter being closer to actual pronunciation in Japanese.

Before the market opens on the first day of trading a new futures contract, there is a specification but no actual contracts exist.

Before metrification at the FCC, the procedure to figure HAAT was relatively simple: from the proposed or actual antenna site, either 12 or 16 radials were drawn, and points at 2, 4, 6, 8, and radius along each radial were used.

Before the Romulans open fire, Peter challenges the Romulan commander to a ritual fight-to-the-death ( using an obscure but still valid Romulan law predating their schism with the Vulcans ), in which actual battle is prohibited until the contest is resolved.

Before it was known and recognized as the common colourful plastic toy ( sometimes with water inside the actual hoop ), it used to be made of dried up willow, rattan, grapevines, or stiff grasses.

Before then, it used the traditional regimental system, where regiments were actual combat units.

Before maturity, the actual value of a bond may be greater or less than face value, depending on the interest rate payable and the perceived risk of default.

Before actual construction of the building could begin, American Fletcher became the first major Indianapolis bank holding company to be sold to an out-of-state financial institution, agreeing in the spring of 1986 to merge with Ohio's rapidly growing Bank One Corporation.

Before its release, the game was met with derision from some due to Microsoft's marketing department Photoshopping lens flares onto what were supposedly actual game screenshots.

Before modern refrigeration was available, Iceboxes were popular, The problem with an icebox was that the cabinet housing it was large, but the actual refrigerated space was quite small.

Before long, his banter with the audience overtook the actual songs ; he became known more as a comedian than a singer.

Before the actual construction started, the terrain was evenly covered with sand from the Sava and the Danube rivers in an effort to dry out the land and raise it above the reach of flooding and underground streams.

Before Habonim was named in spring 1929, Chaim ( actual name Hyman S .) Lipshitz as co-founder, had regular organized meetings of boys at his father's Cheder ( school room ) and they were well established by December 1928.

Before this point in time, the growth of the fireball was due to radiative transport, i. e. thermal x-rays " outpaced " the actual expanding bomb debris.

Before the actual battle, the Filipinos had laid an ambush along a narrow path and carefully concealed themselves in camouflaged pits and trenches, awaiting the unsuspecting American column.

Before the British Invasions, writers in the American comic book industry were known as " ace storytellers but mediocre wordsmiths " because the " actual text " of their comic books were generally subordinate to the plot and storytelling.

Before Persil, laundry soaps consisted of either soap flakes or actual bars of soap.

Before a match, the player chooses three of the characters to use in the actual fights, while the fourth member becomes the designated " Striker ", a character the player summons during battle to help their character out by performing one of their Special Moves against the opponent.