Before becoming an MP, Clarke had previously been a Labour Councillor on Northampton Borough Council.

Before and after Clarke appeared before the 9 / 11 Commission, defenders of the Bush administration tried to attack his credibility, launching a full-scale offensive against him: impugning his personal motives, claiming he was a disappointed job-hunter, that he was publicity-mad, a political partisan.

Before long, Clarke was playing a central role in local IRB activities.

Before he was able to carry out his mission, Clarke was arrested and tried at the Old Bailey in London in May 1883 under the assumed name of Henry Hammond Wilson, a pseudonym he adopted during the course of the dynamiting campaign.

* 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 long, the original four — Mary Frances Clarke, Margaret Mann, Rose O ’ Toole, and Eliza Kelly — were joined by another, Catherine Byrne.

Before any investigation into " Squidgygate " or " Camillagate " had begun, Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke told the House of Commons: " There is nothing to investigate.

Before his solo career took off, he was also the singer of the one-shot group The Assembly with ex-Yazoo and Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke ( pre-Erasure ).

Before publishing his " Merde " novels, Clarke wrote comedy sketches for BBC Radio 4 and comic-book stories for the U. S. cartoonist and comics artist Gilbert Shelton.

Before and after her time in Babyshambles, Clarke toured incessantly with The Suffrajets.

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 this time it was not possible to run a money-driven organization, as commodity money was the normal way of doing business.

" Before she can cry any further, Rhett asks Scarlett to marry him saying, " I always intended having you, one way or another.

Before Lanier took over, fans were accustomed to Houston's occasional slow starts, but with Lanier leading the way, Houston got off to a hot start, winning 13 of their first 19 contests.

Before the Anglo-German summit at Berchtesgaden on 15 September 1938, Henderson and Weizsäcker worked out a private arrangement that Hitler and Chamberlain were to meet with no advisers present as a way of excluding the ultra-hawkish Ribbentrop from attending the talks.

Before the cold war began in the late 1940s, Foot favoured a ' third way ' foreign policy for Europe ( he was joint author with Richard Crossman and Ian Mikardo of the pamphlet Keep Left in 1947 ), but in the wake of the communist seizure of power in Hungary and Czechoslovakia he and Tribune took a strongly anti-communist position, eventually embracing NATO.

Before Digital Command Control became available, this was one way of controlling two trains separately on the same track.

Before the beginning of the 20th century, pearl hunting was the most common way of harvesting pearls.

Before long distance telephone services were readily available or affordable, telegram services were very popular and the only way to convey information speedily over very long distances.

Before a mobile transmits there is no way to actually know the offset required.

The earliest references to Yule are by way of indigenous Germanic month names ( Ærra Jéola ( Before Yule ) or Jiuli and Æftera Jéola ( After Yule ).

Before he can get halfway there, he must get a quarter of the way there.

Before then, the Romans added whole intercalary months in an unsystematic way.

Before his death in 1989, Leone was part way through planning a film on the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.

Before the release of DeCSS, there was no way for computers running a Linux-based operating system to play video DVDs.

Before the time of electronic equipment the way of communicating on the battlefield was to use either drums, trumpets or flags.

Before filming, Mendes and Spacey analyzed Jack Lemmon's performance in The Apartment ( 1960 ), because Mendes wanted Spacey to emulate " the way moved, the way he looked, the way he was in that office and the way he was an ordinary man and yet a special man ".

Before the Paillon River was covered over, the Pont-Neuf was the only practicable way between the old town and the modern one.

Before the treaty was signed, Li Hongzhang was attacked by a right-wing Japanese extremist on March 24: he was fired at and wounded on his way back to his lodgings at Injoji temple.

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 she finally ends the Universe Death sends Timothy Hunter back to his own time and forces Mr. E to find his own way back.

In that year he published a book entitled Bevor Hitler kam (: Before Hitler Came ), in which he claimed that the Thule Society had paved the way for the Führer: " Thulers were the ones to whom Hitler first came, and Thulers were the first to unite themselves with Hitler.

Before leaving, Cowles declared that dropping the preparatory program at the college would strengthen students ' diplomas ; many other colleges, including Vassar, did not have such programs.

Before the introduction of firearms, bows or crossbows were often used — Saint Sebastian is usually depicted as executed by a squad of Roman auxiliary archers in around 288 AD ; King Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia, by some accounts, was tied to a tree and shot dead by Viking archers on 20 November 869 or 870 AD.

Before long, though, citizens formed a vigilance squad and overwhelmed both men, hanging them near the Smoky Hill River.

Before the 1929 season, Tim Mara, owner of the New York Giants, purchased the entire Wolverines squad, including Benny Friedman, and absorbed the team into his New York Giants franchise.

Before the Taliban had even taken control of Afghanistan's capital they sent out a squad to arrest, torture, mutilate and murder Najibullah, leaving his body hanging from a street lamp outside the presidential palace for two days.

Before his execution, in a spirit of reconciliation, Childers shook hands with each of the firing squad.

Before the 1978 World Cup, Kempes was the only foreign based player on the list of coach César Luis Menotti's national team in Argentina, he was at the time playing for Spanish giants Valencia while the other squad members all played in Argentina.

Before Legia scored the goal which gave her the title ( the score 0-1 would mean the title for Gornik ), the referee of the match-Mr Redzinski-sent off one by one 3 players from Gornik's squad, and Gornik had to finished match with only 8 players against 11 players of Legia.

Note: Before the deadline of 2 June for naming a final squad, two players were cut and two others dropped out due to injury.

Before Michigan finally lost a game to Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons squad at the end of the 1905 season, they had gone 56 straight games without a defeat, the second longest such streak in college football history.

Before the inauguration of a state-wide Missouri football title in the late 1960s, the Jr. Bills football squad won ten city championships, retiring the St. Louis Globe-Democrat City / County trophy, which sits proudly in one of the trophy cases by the school's switchboard.

" Before the firing squad were ordered to shoot, Pro raised his arms in imitation of Christ and shouted the defiant cry of the Cristeros, " Viva Cristo Rey!

Before completion, VfL Wolfsburg played their home games at the 20, 500 capacity VfL-Stadium, where the amateur squad still plays.

Before the alarm could be raised, Arief's squad had jumped the fence and overpowered the sleepy guards in the sentry box and guard room.

Before reaching the area designated for firing squad executions, Hojatoleslam Hadi Ghaffari from behind pulled out a pistol and shot Hoveida twice in the neck.

Before he can shoot the Doctor, Cutler is killed by the leader of a newly arrived squad of Cybermen.

Before undertaking missions, the player outfits the squad and protagonist with PBA suits and equipment.

Before gaining her powers, Lexi was a student at Acmetropolis University who tried to join the school's cheerleading squad.

Before he could be transported to a more secure facility in Mek ' ele or Addis Ababa, a squad of eleven men burst into the prison, wounded one policeman scattered the rest, freed their comrade and 60 other prisoners, and spirited him away to safety.

Before the military training system was changed in 2006 – 2007, this squadron was responsible for training recruits selected for NCO school to become squad leaders ( upon the completion of their training they were promoted to non-commissioned 2nd lieutenant ).

Before the start of the 1997 – 98 season, he was made squad captain at the age of 19, the youngest ever in the club's history.

Before the squad leaves on its assignment, Leni is stopped by Steven, who apologizes for his behavior earlier.

Before the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Christiansen lacked playing time at FCK, and found himself in contention with Kim Christensen for the spot as third goalkeeper in the squad for the finals.