Before its adoption as Australia's national anthem, Advance Australia Fair saw considerable use elsewhere.

Before the adoption of carbon fibre composite, racquets were made of light metals such as aluminium.

Before the adoption of the current year numbering system, other systems were in use.

Before the adoption of carbon fibre composite, racquets were made of wood to their excessive weight and cost.

Before the widespread adoption of the web and e-mail beginning around 1994, publications such as Factsheet Five formed a vital directory for connecting like-minded people.

Before his official adoption as a Roman deity, Liber was companion to two different goddesses in two separate, archaic Italian fertility cults ; Ceres, an agricultural and fertility goddess of Rome's Hellenised neighbours, and Libera, who was either Liber's female equivalent or became so through assimilation.

Before their adoption of guns, the Plains Indians hunted with spears, bows, and bows and arrows, and various forms of clubs.

* Before the widespread adoption of CAD, engineering plans or architectural drawings were plotted onto sheets of boPET film.

Before the adoption of luck at the end of the Middle Ages, Old English and Middle English expressed the notion of " good fortune " with the word speed ( Middle English spede, Old English spēd ); speed besides " good fortune " had the wider meaning of " prosperity, profit, abundance "; it is not associated with the notion of probability or chance but rather with that of fate or divine help ; a bestower of success can also be called speed, as in " Christ be our speed " ( William Robertson, Phraseologia generalis, 1693 ).

Before the official adoption of the yotta prefix, the multiple was also known as otta.

Before the adoption of timecode by the motion picture industry in the late 1980s, pilottone-sync was the basis of all professional magnetic motion picture sound recording systems, whereas most amateur film formats used pre-striped magnetic coating on the film itself for live-sound recording.

Before the popular adoption of " The Dons ", the team were variously known as " The Wasps " or " The Black and Golds "; both names a reference to the yellow and black striped shirts of the time.

Before the adoption of the democratic Weimar Constitution it was not allowed to teach in another language than German in school ( apart from religious education lessons ).

Before the adoption of the Skule Yell, the original cheer was significantly shorter:

Before the adoption of the state constitution in 1780, it was called the Great and General Court, but the official title was shortened by John Adams, author of the state constitution, apparently in the name of republican simplicity.

Before its adoption in 1931, the official flag of the Isle of Man was the Union Flag.

Before the adoption of color-coded names, the Blue Line was referred to as the West-Northwest Route ( which it is still sometimes referred to as today ) or more commonly, the O ' Hare-Congress-Douglas route for its three branches.

Before the wide adoption of Pinyin, the name of the city ( often viewed as a county seat, i. e. Qufu xian ) was transcribed in English in a variety of ways, such as Ch ' ü-fou-hien, Kio-feu-hien, Kio-fou-hien,

Before its adoption by Nicholas I, narodnost was a central tenet of Russian Romantic writers, the Russian expression of a principle more often called Romantic nationalism.

Before their adoption of guns, the Plains Indians hunted with spears, bows and arrows, and various forms of clubs.

Before the adoption of the state constitution, Belarus had a prime minister ever since they broke away from the Soviet Union.

Before the adoption of the 2002 bylaws, the predecessor body known as the Joint Council served essentially the same role as the new World Church Leadership Council.

Before the adoption of pixel shader-enhanced bump mapping methods such as normal and parallax mapping that simulate higher mesh detail, curved 3D shapes in games were created with large numbers of triangles.

Before the adoption of the golden anchor, the symbol of Delta Gamma was simply an " H " for the word " hope.

Before it emerged as a unique discipline, control engineering was practiced as a part of mechanical engineering and control theory was studied as a part of electrical engineering, since electrical circuits can often be easily described using control theory techniques.

Before the advent of fast computing machines, solving a dynamical system required sophisticated mathematical techniques and could be accomplished only for a small class of dynamical systems.

Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he worked at the U. S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, Arizona, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews.

Before the 15th century, mathematicians such as Archimedes and Liu Hui used geometrical techniques, based on polygons, to estimate the value of.

Before the time of Yang Luchan, the art appears to have been generically described by outsiders as zhan quan ( 沾拳, " touch boxing "), mian quan ( 绵拳, " soft boxing ") or shisan shi ( 十三式, " the thirteen techniques ").

Before the introduction of western cookware it was often used for all cooking techniques including:

Before the development of synthetic pigments, and the refinement of techniques for extracting mineral pigments, batches of color were often inconsistent.

Before the 1990s tapestry upholstery fabrics and reproductions of the famous tapestries of the Middle Ages had been produced using Jacquard techniques but then artists such as Chuck Close adapted the

Before the advent of the starter motor, engines were started by various methods including wind-up springs, gun powder cylinders, and human-powered techniques such as a removable crank handle which engaged the front of the crankshaft, pulling on an airplane propeller, or pulling a cord that was wound around an open-face pulley.

Before these techniques were employed, plastic automobile parts would often crack when exposed to cold temperatures.

Before the war, it was severity and strong technique, as opposed to the ( kind of ) techniques that invigorate our partners as we have now.

Before the presentation starts, people hear Maharaji asking for three promises: a ) to keep in touch, b ) to give Knowledge a fair chance, and c ) to not to share these techniques with anyone.

Before techniques were developed for taking off and landing on ships, the RNAS had to use seaplanes in order to operate at sea.

Before he became an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Venus space probe project, and used visible light and infrared techniques to study the planets and moons of the solar system from ground-based observatories.

Before the advent of more modern computer-assisted techniques, this technique, developed in the 1930s by the radiologist Alessandro Vallebona, proved useful in reducing the problem of superimposition of structures in projectional ( shadow ) radiography.

Before the advent of sophisticated medical imaging techniques, surgical exploration was the standard of care.

Before learning braking techniques, it is common for riders to jump off the moving board and ' run out ' their speed, but this is safe only at low speeds.

Before the augmenation mammoplasty, the woman consults with a lactation counsultant, to learn what post-operative lactation and breast-feeding conditions to expect ; and consults with the plastic surgeon to jointly decide upon the implantation procedure and surgical techniques that will least damage the breast nerves, the milk ducts, the T4 dermatomic area and the lactiferous ducts, so that she might nurse her infant child.

Before arriving at a hospital, the use of stabilization techniques improve the chances of a person surviving the transport to the nearest trauma-equipped hospital.

Before current purification techniques were refined, germanium crystals could not be produced with purity sufficient to enable their use as spectroscopy detectors.

Before starting with an FMEA, several other techniques are frequently employed to ensure that robustness and history are included in the analysis.

Before the advent of fast computing machines, solving a dynamical system required sophisticated mathematical techniques and could only be accomplished for a small class of dynamical systems.

Before refrigeration, there was a need to preserve the codfish ; drying and salting are ancient techniques to preserve nutrients and the process makes the codfish tastier.

Before this placement, Flannery had attended the 1998 ESAT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition with a project describing already existing crytographic techniques from Caesar cipher to RSA.