Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.

Before the snap of the ball, in the American game, backfield players may only move parallel to the line of scrimmage, only one back may be in motion at any given time, and if forward motion has occurred, the back must be still for a full second before the snap.

Before Clarisse goes inside, she asks Montag if he's happy.

Before the advent of copyright, anonymous and pseudonymous publication was a common practice in the sixteenth century publishing world, and a passage in the Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), the leading work of literary criticism of the Elizabethan period and an anonymously published work itself, mentions in passing that literary figures in the court who wrote " commendably well " circulated their poetry only among their friends, " as if it were a discredit for a gentleman to seem learned " ( Book 1, Chapter 8 ).

Before being read, the ballots are counted while still folded ; if the number of ballots does not match the number of electors, the ballots are burned unopened and a new vote is held.

Before being sworn in as a minister, a person must first be sworn in as a member of the Federal Executive Council if they are not already a member.

Before the 2008 presidential election he said, " On social issues, I lean Libertarian, minus the crazy stuff ," but said in December 2011 that if he were president he would do whatever Bill Clinton advised him to do because that " would lead to policies that are a sensible middle ground.

Before the wedding starts, Steve takes Fran for a walk and asks her if they ’ re doing the right thing.

Before leaving, however, he buried his sandals and sword under a huge rock and told Aethra that when their son grew up, he should move the rock, if he were heroic enough, and take the tokens for himself as evidence of his royal parentage.

Before receiving the formal nod, Harding was summoned by George Harvey, told he was considered to be the consensus nominee, and asked if he knew, " before God ", whether there was anything in his life which would be an impediment.

Before he showed an interest in poetry, he displayed a keenness for acting, though Mr Giles ' Theatre, where he performed, only let him play the title role in Macbeth if he paid for the privilege.

Before he leaves, Pozzo asks if he can do anything for the pair in exchange for the company they have provided during his rest.

Before the end of the 19th century, the Greeks believed that the corpses of werewolves, if not destroyed, would return to life as vampires in the form of wolves or hyenas which prowled battlefields, drinking the blood of dying soldiers.

Before World War II, most elite university faculties counted among their numbers few, if any, Jews, blacks, women, or other minorities ; Yale was no exception.

Before the most recent edition of the BGP standard, if an UPDATE had no MULTI_EXIT_DISC value, several implementations created a MED with the least possible value.

Before the 2005 Australian Grand Prix Stoddart initially threatened to withdraw his cars if they were made to comply with the revised regulations for 2005.

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 sending Admiral Wilhelm Marschall out in Operation Juno, Raeder told him: " We must engage the enemy in battle, even if this should cost us one of the battleships.

Before any planning occurs the Engineer must take what is known as an inventory of the area or if it is appropriate, the previous system in place.

Before 1900, Peirce treated abduction as the use of a known rule to explain an observation, e. g., it is a known rule that if it rains the grass is wet ; so, to explain the fact that the grass is wet ; one infers that it has rained.

Before the war, in 1912, he had published the book The Good Soldier Švejk and other strange stories ( Dobrý voják Švejk a jiné podivné historky ) where the figure of Švejk appeared for the first time ; but it was only after the war in his famous novel that Švejk became a sancta simplicitas, a cheerful idiot who joked about the war as if it were a tavern brawl.

Before this rule, missed field goals were ( if unreturned ) touchbacks, with the ball placed at the 20-yard line.

Before beginning the process of peak identification, the analyst must determine if the BEs of the unprocessed survey spectrum ( 0-1400 eV ) have or have not been shifted due to a positive or negative surface charge.

Before 1938, the federal courts, like almost all other common law courts, decided the law on any issue where the relevant legislature ( either the U. S. Congress or state legislature, depending on the issue ), had not acted, by looking to courts in the same system, that is, other federal courts, even on issues of state law, and even where there was no express grant of authority from Congress or the Constitution.

Before the Congress opened on 13 June, negotiations between Andrássy and the British Foreign Secretary Marquess of Salisbury had already " ended on 6 June by Britain agreeing to all the Austrian proposals relative to Bosnia-Herzegovina about to come before the congress while Austria would support British demands.

Before Corea completed a draft of the Nicaragua proposal, Congress was considering the Spooner Act, to authorize the Panama Canal.

Before 1972, Zambia had three significant political parties — UNIP, the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress, and the United Progressive Party ( UPP ).

Before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) was created, nuclear regulation was the responsibility of the AEC, which Congress first established in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.

Before statehood he represented Virginia in the Continental Congress ( 1777 – 78 ) and the U. S. Congress ( 1789 – 91 ).

Before the Communications Act of 1934 was enacted as law by the U. S. Congress, there was a debate over commercial versus non-commercial broadcasting: Senators Robert Wagner of New York and Henry Hatfield of West Virginia offered an amendment to the then proposed Communications Act.

Before he transferred power to a younger generation of leaders, Jiang had his theory of Three Represents written into the Party's constitution, alongside Marxism – Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, and Deng Xiaoping Theory at the 16th CPC Congress in 2002.

Before Juárez fled, Congress granted him an emergency extension of his presidency, which would go into effect in 1865, when his term expired, and last until 1867, when the last of Maximilian's forces were defeated.

Before being disfranchised by the Democrats ' passage in 1899 of a new state constitution that included discriminatory provisions, black citizens elected four African Americans to the US Congress from North Carolina's 2nd congressional district in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Before the opening of the 14th National Congress of the CPC in 1992, the Party's senior leaders, including Deng and Chen Yun, were to select candidates for the Politburo Standing Committee to ensure a smooth transition of power from the so-called second-generation leaders ( Deng, Chen, Li Xiannian, Wang Zhen, etc.

The Plight of the Montagnards: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Relations, Original from the Library of Congress.

Before the enactment of the current statute previous Acts of Congress ( the Presidential Succession Acts of 1792 and 1886 ) dealt with the hypothesis of there being neither a President nor a Vice President able to discharge the powers of the presidency.

Before a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman stated, “ I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support the people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures .” That summer, Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed a plan for the economic reconstruction of Europe that would further entrench the division.

Before becoming General Secretary he had been voted Gorbachev's Deputy General Secretary within the Party on 12 July 1990, a newly created position as a result of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party

Before he could act on it, he was dismissed from the Cabinet and, in response, resigned his memberships in the Congress Party and the Lok Sabha.

* Statement of Information, Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Third Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to H. Res.

Before Congress enacted the ODA in 1983 only 38 drugs were approved in the USA specifically to treat orphan diseases.

Before joining Congress, Sherman was on staff at one of the nations ’ big-four CPA firms.

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

Before his election to Congress, he served six years in the California State Assembly.

Before the opening of the 111th Congress, Emanuel accepted a position as White House Chief of Staff in the Obama Administration.