Before its acquisition by Google, the gmail. com domain name was used by a free e-mail service offered by Garfield. com, online home of the comic strip Garfield.

Before the 1960s deinstitutionalization there were earlier efforts to free psychiatric patients.

Before the start of the 2010 – 11 season the NBA had an exciting summer with one of the most anticipated free agent classes of all time.

Before even hiring a new General Manager or officially being approved as the new owners, Magowan signed superstar free agent Barry Bonds ( a move which MLB initially blocked until some terms were negotiated to protect Lurie and Bonds in case the sale failed ).

( Before the season, Taylor had informed the team that instead of returning to the Packers in 1967, he would become a free agent and sign with the expansion New Orleans Saints.

Before the start of the 1994 season, San Diego was not expected to do well because they had so many newcomers via the draft and free agency ; the Chargers ended up 22 new players on their roster and 10 of them became starters.

( Before the mid-1630s, they also received 5 to 10 acres of land but after that time the island filled up and there was no free land.

Before the twentieth century, most free speech issues involved prior restraint.

Before the Compromise: < ul >< li > California Gold Rush | Gold Rush California applies to become free state < li > Southern United States | South wanted Southern California as slave territory < li > Texas claims territory as far as the Rio Grande < li > U. S. provisional government of New Mexico | New Mexico resists Texas, applies to be free state < li > Texas takes El Paso, Texas | El Paso February 1850 < li > Mormon pioneers apply to become State of Deseret </ ol >

Before the start of the new 1999 – 2000 season, Ajax were beaten in their own stadium when Feyenoord won their second Dutch Super Cup title, after a free kick by Patrick Paauwe, which secured a 3 – 2 win.

Before 1800, its free black community founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church ( AME ), the first independent black denomination in the country, and the first black Episcopal Church.

Before the war, the population of slaves had been counted as three-fifths of a comparable number of free whites.

Before Zagon can kill Harrison, Nico breaks free, although drugged, and kills all of Zagon's men, including Zagon himself by breaking his neck.

Before the USA had entered that conflict, the British Government had granted it a free, 99-year base lease in Bermuda, along with a similar grant in Newfoundland for what became the Ernest Harmon Air Force Base.

Before finding work, Heine visited the North Sea resort of Norderney which inspired the free verse poems of his cycle Die Nordsee.

Before stating a precise definition of free variable and bound variable, the following are some examples that perhaps make these two concepts clearer than the definition would:

Before the Breakup of the Soviet Union, Fort Hood was billed as the largest military base in the free world ( Fort Benning is larger in personnel though not in land area ).

Before the Maastricht Treaty, member states cooperated at the intergovernmental level in various sectors relating to free movement and personal security (" group of co-ordinators ", CELAD, TREVI ) as well as in customs co-operation ( GAM ) and judicial policy.

Before a copied game can be played, it must have been patched with a free application.

Before the new Constitution came into force, full formal powers to appoint the Prime Minister and the rest of the Council of State had been the privilege of the President, who was free to diverge from parliamentary principles, although ministers appointed had to have the confidence of the Parliament.

Before 1870, the State of New Jersey Census had only three racial or ethnic categories for residents: White, Black ( free ), and Black ( slave ), the same categories as were used in the slave states.

* WorldCat. org: ' Two Years Before the Mast ' record, with link to free full text

Before the USCT was formed, several Volunteer regiments were raised from free black men, including freedmen in the South.

Before the February 1917 Russian revolution, Lenin had formulated a slogan calling for the ' democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry ', but after the February revolution, through his April theses, Lenin instead called for " all power to the Soviets ".

Before 1997, most organisations affiliated to the CWI sought to build an entrist Marxist wing within the large social democratic parties.

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 2009 election, he said that his most important issues was to " fight for our basic democratic, liberal and human society values against external pressure, mainly from Islamic societies ".

Before the 2007 convention, the left-wing opposition was led by the DS Left-wing-Returning to win ( Sinistra DS-Per tornare a vincere ), a left-wing democratic socialist tendency, with other smaller groups including DS Left-wing for Socialism ( Sinistra DS per il Socialismo ), left-wing democratic socialists and the Ecologist Left ( Sinistra Ecologista ), left-wing environmentalists.

Before the Ancient Roman conquest Lycia was a kingdom with the first democratic constitution in the world, which later partly inspired the American Constitution.

Before his election as MEP Jules Maaten was Secretary General of the world union of liberal parties, the Liberal International, in London ( 1992 – 1999 ), during which time he was involved among others in supporting democratic movements in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Central and Eastern Europe.

Before the 2008 elections in Bavaria, the CSU perennially achieved absolute majorities at the state level by itself.

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 the end of the war, architect Charles Holden drew up plans to redevelop the city centre, but locals were so opposed that the Citizens ' Defence Association was formed and swept to power in the 1945 municipal elections.

Before long, the Moral Majority became heavily invested in presidential elections and national politics ; although at the state level branches of the Moral Majority continued to pursue specific issues at lower levels of government.

Before 1989, Jackson had a city commission government consisting of a mayor and two commissioners ; however, as a result of a lawsuit which declared that at-large elections served to dilute the voting power of the city's African-American residents, the city switched to election by districts.

Before local elections and in the face of widespread residents ' opposition to the distribution center, the Buda City Council unanimously voted against the land change.

Before elections started, he asked that the results be respected by everyone, and all agreed.

Before the 2006 elections the party announced that it intended to run for a third time, despite the threshold for representation having been raised to 2 %.

Before the 2009 elections, Shem-Tov was expelled from the party by Shlomi Sandak who was the temporary chairman of the Green Leaf Party.

Before his death, Arana had planned to run in the upcoming 1950 presidential elections.

Before the new deputies could take their seats, the directors forced through the councils the law of 22 Floréal, annulling or perverting the elections in thirty departments and excluding forty-eight deputies by name.

( Before 2004, when elections to the Legislative Council from the Election Committee was abolished, members returned through the Election Committee vote with members returned from geographical constituencies.

On November 3, the day after the 2010 mid-term elections, Stevens uploaded a new music video on YouTube entitled " Nightmare Before Christmas.

Before the national elections in 1976 there was a strong call for a change to a right-wing government in Sweden.

Before the 2004 elections Dua announced that if the party was supported by less than 280. 000 votes, the independent green political project would end.

Before the elections Levintal made several conciliatory gestures toward Hetz, attempting negotiations with them, the anti-corruption Tafnit party led by Uzi Dayan, and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak over the prospect of forming a united front, but to no avail.

Before the highway could be completed, Thomas McQuesten was appointed the new minister of the Department of Highways, with Robert Melville Smith as deputy minister, following the 1934 provincial elections.

* Margaret Atwood's 1979 novel Life Before Man is set in Toronto in the late 1970s and several characters watch and sometimes comment upon the elections and sovereignist movement in Quebec.

Before the elections, Leefbaar Rotterdam declared it would not enter in a coalition with PvdA and several members even declared that, irrespective of the coalition, they would leave the council if PvdA would become the biggest party ( which has happened ).

Before the 2001 elections, the party joined the Union for Victory Coalition under the leadership of the Democratic Party, which won 46 seats.

Before the 1992 parliamentary and presidential elections, SDSH was involved in bitter dispute with the SDP over its rebranding into the Social Democratic Party of Croatia.

Before the 2007 elections, PGS has announced coalition ( joint electoral ticket ) with Croatian Peasant Party and Croatian Social Liberal Party.

Before the 2007 parliamentary elections, HSS announced a coalition with opposition parties Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar and Croatian Social Liberal Party.

Before the 2007 general elections, Morauta lost the leadership of the party and founded his own party, the Papua New Guinea Party, while Wingti became the leader of the PDM again.