Before the establishment of ICANN, the Government of the United States controlled the domain name system of the Internet.

Before its establishment, Rulers were immune from any proceedings brought against them in their personal capacity.

Before the establishment of the present European Commission, there was the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community.

Before its establishment as a Republic, Rome was ruled by kings ( Latin reges, singular rex ).

Before the establishment of the League of Corinth, even though the Macedonians apparently spoke a dialect of the Greek language and claimed proudly that they were Greeks, they were not considered to fully share the classical Greek culture by many of the inhabitants of the southern city states, because they did not share the polis based style of government.

Before the establishment of University College Falmouth Cornwall was one of the few counties without a university.

Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the Vatican opposed Zionist policies and objectives in Palestine.

Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Switzerland maintained a consulate in Jerusalem and a consular agency in Tel Aviv.

Before the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate, civil power in Japan was primarily held by the ruling emperors and their regents, typically appointed from the ranks of the imperial court and the aristocratic clans that vied there.

Before the establishment Wahkon, the site was an Ojibwe village named Sagawamick ( from the Ojibwe language Zaagawaamik, meaning " Sandbar ").

Before the establishment of centralized post offices, local offices were established in general stores, railroad depots and other public venues in densely populated areas.

Before the establishment of the leidang, the defence of the realm was probably based on voluntary contribution to a defence-fleet.

Before his Privy Council appointment, Chalmers applied himself to investigating the history and establishment of the English colonies in North America.

Before the construction of the first monastic establishment in the 8th century, the island was called " monte tombe ".

Before the establishment of the Executive Yuan in 1928, the premier of the Republic of China was created as " Premier of Cabinet " in 1912.

Before the formation of UTJ and the establishment of Degel HaTorah, the two factions were united under one united Agudat Yisrael party, but the late mentor and supreme guide of the non-Hasidic group, Rabbi Elazar Shach ( 1898-2001 ) broke away from the Hasidic wing when it was clear that the party was not living up to its mandate to represent all Torah Jewry.

Before its establishment, monetary functions were performed by government departments and agencies.

Before the establishment of the Margraviate of Brandenburg it was the place of a Slavic stockade.

Before the establishment of the High Court, appeals from the state Supreme Courts could be made only to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which involved the great expense of physically travelling to London.

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 establishment of Israel, the Arab village of Yibna was located there.

Before 1967 I had not found it difficult to publish reports in these journals, and by then I had about 150 articles and several books in the establishment press.

Before the establishment of patriarchs ( beginning in AD 325 ), metropolitan was the highest episcopal rank in the Eastern rites of the Church.

Before the establishment of modern nation states in the region during the mid-20th century, Maghreb most-commonly referred to a smaller area between the Atlas Mountains in the south and the Mediterranean Sea, often also including eastern Libya, but not modern Mauritania.

In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

* Before 3: 50 a. m .: The Jerusalem Post reports that Osama bin Laden has given a speech denying any connection to the attacks, which he called admirable.

Before the Post Office was located here in the latter half of the 19th century it was called " Bernville.

Before joining The New Yorker, Remnick was a reporter and the Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post.

Before entering Parliament she was a journalist in South Africa for the Daily News in Durban from 1973-9 and then in Birmingham on the Birmingham Post from 1978-83.

Before the election, he was the 37th Minister of National Revenue and was also the Minister responsible for Canada Post Corporation, the Royal Canadian Mint, from 2004 to 2006 and acting Minister of Natural Resources from 2005 to 2006.

Before becoming the Post Office in 1913, the building had had many owners, including the Reverend Robert Addison, who moved to Canada after selling the house.

Before a photographer could be sent, Post photographer Stephen Jaffe also happened by on his way home from another assignment.

Before they both fell asleep, Post gave Sedgwick the medication that had been prescribed for her.

Before the Nazi assumption of power in 1933, German radio broadcasting was supervised by the Post Office.

* 2008: Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post, for ' Pearls Before Breakfast ,' " his chronicling of a world-class violinist who, as an experiment, played beautiful music in a subway station filled with unheeding commuters.

Before social mores relaxed to the point where single women with children were socially acceptable, the unwed mother was often advised by etiquette mavens like Emily Post to use Mrs. with her maiden name to avoid scrutiny.

Before and during World War II, Békésy worked for the Hungarian Post Office ( 1923 to 1946 ), where he did research on telecommunications signal quality.

Before going into exile he worked as a political reporter for the Golden City Post, DRUM, and the Johannesburg Sunday Times.

Before the magazine was launched, he invited William Plomer to help with it, and late in the year, Laurens van der Post was invited to become Afrikaans editor of Voorslag.

Before being published as a book, it had been sold to the Saturday Evening Post, in which it appeared in serial form from December 23, 1933 to January 27, 1934, and in England in the Grand Magazine from April to September 1934.

Before entering a political career, he worked in the Post Office, and thereafter at the Afrikaans language newspaper, Die Transvaler, edited by Hendrik Verwoerd, who later became Prime Minister.

Before the introduction of rural free delivery ( RFD ) by the U. S. Post Office in 1896, and in Canada in 1908, many rural residents had no access to the mail unless they collected it at a post office located many miles from their homes or hired a private express company to deliver it.

Before the Deutsche Bundesbahn ( German National Railways ) and the Deutsche Bundespost ( Federal Post Office ) were privatised, they used the abbreviations DB and BP ( e. g. DB-12345, BP-12345 ).

Before the book was published, the New York Post learned of the story and made it front-page news on March 3, 1978.

Before 2010, it was known as " The Post "; De Post in Dutch, La Poste in French, and Die Post in German.

* Anti-Clinton Billionaire Goes Before Grand Jury Washington Post September 29, 1998