Before independence, most Hindus did not have the right to cast votes and were not eligible to contest elections although were the majority ethnic group of the population.

Before John XXII's election a contest had begun for the imperial crown between Louis IV of Bavaria and his opponent, Frederick I of Austria.

Before California votes, each week ’ s contest would choose about 12 % of the delegates necessary for the nomination, from a single state, or a group of contiguous states.

Before losing his first amateur contest, Barrera had an undefeated record of 56-0.

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 the 2008 Georgia-Florida game, both coaches repeatedly stated that the previous year's incident would have no bearing on the contest.

Before creating the Twisted Metal contest, Calypso was just a regular man.

Before the fight, which was scheduled for 45 three-minute rounds, famous boxers who had traveled to Reno to witness the contest were introduced to the crowd, including Sam Langford, a black boxer who was unable to secure a title fight, even from Jack Johnson.

Before the GoldenPalace. com turkey eating contest in New York City Thanksgiving Eve, Thomas had gone three months without winning a non-qualifying contest, although she did have two impressive victories in qualifiers during that span.

Before entering the Miss Panama contest in 2001, Pasek worked as a model in television productions and fashion shows.

Before the game's release in the United States, TTi held a contest to name the character.

Before Lewis can make any argument against the proposition, he is co-opted by a wet-nightie contest happening poolside.

The feud continued on June 18 at Death Before Dishonor III, where he and Lethal faced each other in a singles match, but it ended in a no contest.

Before leaving for England, Rosetta represented the US in Belgium for the first international singing contest ever held.

Before the contest can get underway, however, the crime syndicate interrupts and makes a wager that none of the Seattle fighters can defeat Ivan.

Before the federal election of 2004, the Australian Shooters Party was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission for failing to contest a federal election for four years.

Before her film career began, Mimieux was one of four finalists from a beauty contest picked by Elvis Presley ( while he was filming Jailhouse Rock, 1957 ) who were invited to come to the set and compete for a bit role in the movie (" girl in bathing suit ").

Before she was able to make her decision, other prominent candidates withdrew from the contest and gave their support to Michael Ignatieff.

Before the production of Proton Saga, a contest was held to choose the name of the first national car, and the name Saga was chosen from the winner of the contest, Ismail Jaafar, a retired military soldier.

# A Kiss Before Dying The feud between Palisades and SVH reaches a deadly conclusion when Christian Gorman is accidentally killed, and Jessica wins the surfing contest.

Before publishing the novel in North America, Reilly rewrote most of the novel, placing the contest in the New York Library, rather than a fictitious library, and added descriptions of and encounters with the other contestants to improve his story.

Before the contest in the episode, the spectators are given free samples of a pudding called Grandma Plopwell's.

Before Hirst developed his technique, bowlers often rubbed the ball in the dirt to remove the shiny layer of the ball, unaware that this layer helped the ball to swing.

Before the 20th century, most manufactured products were made individually by hand.

Before the advent of printing, breviaries were written by hand and were often richly decorated with initials and miniature illustrations telling stories in the lives of Christ or the saints, or stories from the Bible.

Before Pilate on the other hand it was merely the assertion of his royal dignity which gave ground for his condemnation.

Before long, powdermakers standardized the process by forcing mill cake through sieves instead of corning powder by hand.

Before going sober, Chapman jokingly referred to himself as the British actress Betty Marsden, possibly because of Marsden's oft-quoted desire to die with a glass of gin in her hand.

Before the advent of machine tools, metal was worked manually using the basic hand tools of hammers, files, scrapers, saws and chisels.

Before the invention of woodblock printing in China or by moveable type in a printing press in Europe, all written documents had to be both produced and reproduced by hand.

Before he finished speaking, the egg in her hand turned a bright red, and she continued proclaiming the Gospel to the entire imperial house.

Before the advent of modern computers numerical methods often depended on hand interpolation in large printed tables.

Before the development cotton gins, the cotton fibers had to be pulled from the seeds tediously by hand.

Before Gutenberg, books were copied out by hand on scrolls and paper, or printed from hand-carved wooden blocks.

Before the boundary settlement of 1873 the small states of Rushan and Shugnan extended to the left bank of the Oxus, and the province of Darwaz, on the other hand, extended to the right bank.

Before the opening of hostilities, the Greeks dispatched a delegation to the Trojans under Odysseus and Menelaus ; they endeavored to persuade Priam to hand Helen back without success.

He witnessed first hand his son's success as a performer, and on February 12 heard Joseph Haydn's widely-quoted words of praise, upon hearing the string quartets Wolfgang dedicated to him, " Before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name: He has taste, and, furthermore, the most profound knowledge of composition.

Before he can win Olwen's hand, Culhwch ap Cilydd must complete a number of seemingly impossible tasks given to him by Olwen's father, the giant Ysbaddaden.

Before he left he had given her a ring from his own hand and had bade her give it only to the man whose finger it would fit.

I used to be red when I'd play in front of people because I believed they were looking at my hand, which they probably weren't ... Before my accident with my finger occurred, my oldest brother was killed in a car accident and two weeks afterward my younger sister had her big toe cut off.

Before the 1940s, mining was done by hand tools with high labor usage rates and included horse-drawn carts underground.

Before mechanical printing, literature was copied by hand, and many variations were introduced by copyists.

Before starting a Model T with the hand crank, the spark had to be manually retarded or the engine might " kick back ".

Before his execution, in a spirit of reconciliation, the older Childers obtained a promise from his son to seek out and shake the hand of every man who had signed the death warrant.

In the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, the invocation includes the words " Before me Raphael ; Behind me Gabriel ; On my right hand Michael ; On my left hand Auriel ..."

Before the hand is played, declarer either