Before, the regionalists had been seated divided, with the SNP with the Gaullist-dominated European Democratic Alliance, VU, the Valdotanian Union and the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) in the Rainbow Group, together with green parties, the South Tyrolean People's Party ( SVP ) with the Group of the European People's Party, and Batasuna among the Non-Inscrits.

Before leaving, he developed acquaintances with senior Bolsheviks including Anatoly Lunacharsky, the People's Commissar for Education, who told him: " You are a revolutionary in music, we are revolutionaries in life.

The Hitler Trial Before the People's Court in Munich.

Before the congress was convened, the SED had conducted a " People's Discussion " in order openly to air public concerns related to East Germany's responsibility in honoring the final document of the Helsinki conference.

Before his retirement, Molotov proposed establishing a socialist confederation with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ); Molotov believed socialist states were part of a bigger, supranational entity.

Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States.

Before the end of January 1950, the GWU and the People's Committee were holding joint public meetings and discussing issues such as devaluation, labour legislation, the proposed West Indies Federation, and constitutional reform.

Before establishing diplomatic relations with the South Korea, the People's Republic of China tended to use the historic Korean name Cháoxiǎn ( " Joseon "), by referring to South Korea as Nán Cháoxiǎn ( (" South Joseon ").

In August 1997 the Central People's Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea promulgated regulations regarding use of the Juche Era calendar, according to which for dates occurring before 1912 the Gregorian calendar year is used exclusively, so that there is no " negative " Juche year, or " Before Juche " concept.

Before achieving success as composer, Corigliano worked as assistant to the producer on the Leonard Bernstein Young People's Concerts, and as a session producer for classical artists such as André Watts.

Before the early 1980s bandits as well as People's Liberation Army of Thailand ( PLAT ) guerillas were a big problem in the province, usually destroying highway construction overnight.

Before the end of the Chinese Civil War and the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the airport provided flight routes between Shanghai and Taipei, occasionally via Fuzhou.

Before the Polish – Soviet war, Jan Kowalewski, a polyglot and amateur cryptologist, managed to break the codes and ciphers of the army of the West Ukrainian People's Republic and General Anton Denikin's White Russian forces during his service in the Polish – Ukrainian War.

Before the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong from the UK to the People's Republic of China in July 1997, the DP was the largest party-following the earlier success of the pro-democracy camp in the 1991 Hong Kong legislative election, the party won 19 seats in the 1995 Legislative Council election.

Before its alliance with Nazis, the party sought support of the national liberal German People's Party.

Before the 2008 election, FUNCINPEC and the Cambodian People's Party formed a coalition government, although FUNCINPEC's significance has decreased steadily since 1998, when it had an equal relationship with the CPP in the coalition.

Before the 1980s, cities in the People's Republic of China were administrative divisions containing mostly urban, built-up areas, with very little farmland, except for the immediate suburbs in order to ensure a large supply of food or raw materials.

Before American recognition of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1979, the PRC lobby was practically nonexistent ; since that time, the PRC lobby has gradually strengthened, and by the 1990s, " China lobby " began usually referring to special interest groups acting on behalf of the PRC.

Before the new constitution was enacted, President Boris Yeltsin had dissolved the Congress of People's Deputies and Supreme Soviet of Russia during the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, although he did not have the formal constitutional powers to do so.

Before unification, al-Attas served as Prime Minister ( 1985 – 1986 ) and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council ( 1986 – 1990 ) in the southern PDRY.

Before the 1986 Austrian Presidential Elections, during a meeting of the steering committee of the Burgenland SPÖ, according to a later rendering by Ottilie Matysek, Sinowatz insinuated that one would have to point out to the Austrians that the Austrian People's Party's candidate, Kurt Waldheim, had a " brown " ( i. e. Nazi ) past.

Before military conflict between the PRC's People's Liberation Army and the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan territory was divided into 53 prefecture districts called Dzongs.

Before the convention, Jackson told Polk that he was his favorite for the nomination of the Democratic Party.

Before serving two terms as Berkeley's Mayor, Dean served on the Berkeley City Council for 15 years between 1975 and 1994 and was a leader of the Berkeley Democratic Club.

Before Cermak, the Democratic party in Cook County was run by the " Lace Curtain " Irish.

Before then, the area traditionally voted Democratic and sent Democrats to the House of Representatives and the state legislature until 1994 when the incumbent Earl Hutto declined to run for reelection.

Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.

Before the First World War, he was a muck-raking journalist with sympathies for the Hungarian Social Democratic Party in Kolozsvár.

Before the First World War the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) was the largest party in Germany and the world's most successful socialist party.

Before adjourning, the convention adopted a resolution, the conclusion of which stated: " Be it ... resolved that we call upon the citizens not only of this county but upon all the counties of the state of Arkansas, to join with us in casting the Ku Klux Klan out of the Democratic party and forcing it to come out in the open, under its own colors as a Ku Klux Klan party, instead of seeking to hide its identity within the folds of the Democratic party.

Before the 1972 election, Muskie was viewed as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Before the Congressional election, however, Texan annexation having been adopted by the Democratic Party as part of its platform, the New Hampshire Legislature, in December 1844, passed resolutions instructing its Senators and Congressmen to favor that policy.

Before adopting the current title in 1991, the SPÖ was named Social Democratic Workers ' Party of Austria ( Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Österreichs, SDAPÖ ) from 1888 to 1945 and, later, Socialist Party of Austria ( Sozialistische Partei Österreichs ) until 1991.

Before the 2001 elections, the party joined the Union for Victory Coalition under the leadership of the Democratic Party, which won 46 seats.

Before the 1992 parliamentary and presidential elections, SDSH was involved in bitter dispute with the SDP over its rebranding into the Social Democratic Party of Croatia.

Before independence was achieved in 1966, it was known as the Bechuanaland Democratic Party.

Before running for the United States House of Representatives, Tauscher was active in Democratic circles as a fundraiser and also chaired Dianne Feinstein's successful 1992 and 1994 Senate campaigns.

Before, the slave system had been buttressed to an extent by the Democratic Party, which was increasingly seen as representing a more pro-Southern position that unfairly permitted Southerners to prevail in the nation's territories and to dominate national policy before the Civil War.

Before then, Mississippi had not supported the official Democratic candidate since 1956 ( it voted for George Wallace in 1968 ).

Before Governor Haskell's term ended in 1911, Lee once again sought the Democratic nomination for governor.

Before his term as mayor ended, Walton entered his name in the Democratic primary as a candidate for Governor of Oklahoma to succeed James B.

Before the 2005 election the Democrats renamed themselves to the New Zealand Democratic Party for Social Credit, reincorporating the Social Credit name.

Before long Hill had added about thirty members in Leicester and had also built a close working relationship with the British Democratic Party in the city.

Before the league moved into the Democratic Party, there were only five Democrats among the 162 members of both houses of the legislature in 1955.