Before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the Ba ' ath Party officially ruled.

Agnes Mongan has written of the portrait drawings: Before his departure in the fall of 1806 from Paris for Rome, the familiar characteristics of his drawing style were well established, the delicate yet firm contour, the definite yet discreet distortions of form, the almost uncanny capacity to seize a likeness in the precise yet lively delineation of features. The preferred materials were also already established: the sharply pointed graphite pencil on a smooth white paper.

Before its fall, at the beginning of the 10th century Akan migrants moved southward then founded several nation-states including the first great Akan empire of the Bono founded in the 11th Century and for which the Brong Ahafo region of Akanland is named after.

Before the end of the Secret War, Long Cheng would fall in and out of General Vang Pao's control.

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that neither the United Kingdom nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany.

Before 1400, most Serbian vernaculars had two accents, both with fall intonation — the short one and the long one.

Before the fall of 1912 Forsyth County had a typical mix of races for the surrounding area.

Before embarking on a third leg in the fall of 2005, Queensrÿche toured with Judas Priest across North America, playing an hour-long set consisting mostly of the band's older works and one song from the soon-to-be released sequel, entitled " I'm American.

Before the fall of the city he was already well known as a bitter opponent of the union.

Before navigation improvements such as locks, the fall line was often the head of navigation on rivers due to rapids and waterfalls, such as the Great Falls of the Potomac River.

Before the ghetto was dissolved in the fall of that year, Celan was pressed into labor, first clearing the debris of a demolished post office, and then gathering and destroying Russian books.

Before the late 1960s, Taiwanese immigrants to the United States tended to be waishengren ( mainlanders ) who were people that immigrated to Taiwan with the Kuomintang after the fall of mainland China to the Communists.

Before leaving he established a standing French garrison at Acre, the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem after the loss of Jerusalem, at the expense of the French crown, it remained there until the fall of Acre in 1291.

Before classes even begin in the fall, the freshmen class joins together with upperclassmen and university Regents for the Finucane Service Project as part of the Orientation program.

Before the fall 1984 premiere, the producers changed it to Who's the Boss ?, an open ended title which hinted that any one of the leads could get their own way and be the " boss ".

Before the tax relief was introduced there was a fear that the UK games industry could fall behind other leading game industries around the world such as France and Canada, of which Canada overtook the UK in terms of job numbers in the industry in 2010.

Before falling into the sewer ( and as a nod to fans who rejected Marvel's attempt to re-villainize the character ), Sandman admitted that part of the reason for his fall from grace was the trouble he had to really cope with life on the good guys ' side, and asks Spider-Man to tell his mother he's sorry he didn't fulfull his promise to her, to be a force for good.

Before 1960, it was said on all Sundays after Epiphany and Pentecost which do not fall within Octaves or on which a feast of Double rank or higher was celebrated or commemorated, as well as on Trinity Sunday.

Before the winter break, Hungary managed to beat the minnows of the group Malta thus finishing the fall part of the qualifying in fourth place with six points, mathematically still within striking distance of the leading trio.

Before the fall of Singapore, the Eastern Fleet's naval base at Singapore ( HMNB Singapore ) was part of the British Far East Command.

Before the fall of Adrianople, most Europeans regarded the Ottoman presence in Thrace as merely the latest unpleasant episode in a long string of chaotic events in the southern Balkans.

" Before the 1997 Boerne decision, Katzenbach v. Morgan was often interpreted as allowing Congress to go beyond, but not fall short of, the Court's interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause.

Before fall 2006, students needed to perform individual projects all centered on a topic the group decided on in the selection period.

Before the invention of belay devices, belayers could add friction to the rope by wrapping it around their body ; friction between rope and the belayer's body was used to arrest a fall.

Before Payne loomed the Old Clubhouse, Seward's home, where Key had once been killed.

Before the discoveries, the only source of information about Hittites had been the Old Testament ( see Biblical Hittites ).

* Before I Get Old: The Story of The Who by Dave Marsh, Plexus Publishing ( 16 September 2003 )

Before his first visit to England in 1834, the labours of Hugh Miller and other geologists brought to light the remarkable fish of the Old Red Sandstone of the northeast of Scotland.

Shortly after his introduction to Guy Chambers, Williams released " Old Before I Die " which would be the first single taken from his début album.

Before the Old Man tracks Sam down and captures him, they have infected the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, whose department controls the United States Secret Service ( responsible for the President's personal security ); the slugs are a step away from infecting the President himself.

Before Saga of Old City was released in November 1985, Gygax wrote a sequel, Artifact of Evil.

Before the end of 1661 Wren was unofficially advising the repair of Old St Paul's Cathedral after two decades of neglect and distress ; his architectural interests were also evident to his associates at the time.

Before the Nat Turner Revolt, there was a small but ineffectual antislavery movement in Virginia, largely on account of economic trends that made slavery less profitable in the Old South in the 1820s and fears among whites of the rising number of blacks, especially in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions.

Before the 20th century, the tiny settlement was concentrated around in what was Kenton Lane ( the easternmost part of which remains as Old Kenton Lane to the east of Kingsbury station ) and is now part of the present day Woodgrange Avenue and Kenton Road.

Before its founding, the area was known as Old Fields or Old Fields of Toe.

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 becoming a unified town, Cleethorpes was made up of three small villages, or " thorpes ": Itterby, Oole and Thrunscoe, which were part of a wider parish called Clee ( not to be confused with Old Clee ).

Before Philip could read, his mother began to teach him the history of the Old and New Testament from blue Dutch chimney-tiles on the chimney place of their sitting room.

Before the meal starts, a gong is sounded and the attendees stand as the fellows and their guests come in from the Old Combination Room to sit at High Table.

Most recently Chad stepped out from behind the drum set to front his new project Before Cars, who released the single " Old Chair " in 2006.

Before the 2002 season it was known as Old Kent Park ; the name was changed when the park's title sponsor, Old Kent Bank, was purchased by Fifth Third Bank.

Before the cyclical Old French romances, appearances of Morgan are few.

Before 1598 the road was part of Broad Street ( now Old Broad Street ).

* Luraghi, Raimondo, " The Civil War and the Modernization of American Society: Social Structure and Industrial Revolution in the Old South Before and During the War ", Civil War History XVIII ( Sept. 1972 ).

Stevenson's research was the subject of Tom Shroder's Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives ( 1999 ) and Jim B. Tucker's Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives ( 2005 ).