Before his departure, a group of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had given him a luncheon, and Stidger had seen advance sheets of Elmer Gantry.

Before seizing power in 2003, Bozizé's rebel group was equipped and trained in Chad.

Before he was assassinated, Umar decided that his successor would come from a group of six.

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 Christmas 1955, Brantley had the group record a demo of " Please, Please, Please " for a local Macon radio station.

Before leaving for Scandinavia the group took part in a recording session for the P. J.

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 independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah.

Before the break off of dialogue, a letter written by a group of Colombian intellectuals ( among whom were Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez ) to the Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board was released denouncing the approach taken by the FARC-EP and the dire consequences that it was having for the country.

A deleted scene from The Nightmare Before Christmas features a group of vampires playing hockey on the frozen pond with the decapitated head of Burton.

Before the troupe formed, Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney were working together doing Theatresports in Calgary, performing in a group named " The Audience ".

Before the group began the operation, Israeli agent Avri Elad ( Avraham Zeidenberg ) was sent to oversee the operations.

Before 1960, Thimphu consisted of a group of hamlets scattered across the valley including Motithang, Changangkha, Changlimithang, Langchupakha, and Taba, some of which constitute districts of the city today ( see below for district details ).

Before Allen purchased the team in 1988, the Trail Blazers were owned by a group of investors headed by Larry Weinberg.

Before monosaccharide units are incorporated into glycoproteins, polysaccharides, or lipids in living organisms, they are typically first " activated " by being joined via a glycosidic bond to the phosphate group of a nucleotide such as uridine diphosphate ( UDP ), guanosine diphosphate ( GDP ), thymidine diphosphate ( TDP ), or cytidine monophosphate ( CMP ).

Before this park was created, the area was known as ' The Gun Sites ', as it had been the location for anti-aircraft guns in WW2, and was the home of the 1st Petts Wood scout group.

Before the development of the Estates, the area was inhabited by the northern Ipai, a semi-nomadic people and a group of the Kumeyaay.

Before European settlement around 1795, the area was settled by the Melungeon, a group of people of mixed European, sub-Saharan African, and Native American ancestry.

Before it started, Hendrix " called this tour The Cry of Love, because that's what it is " in an interview ; this is the only mention of that name, prior to the posthumous LP of that name ( 1971 ), and the group itself was still referred to in all ads, articles, promos, bookings, introductions, etc.

Before signing the group, the label's president, Harold Robinson, was unimpressed with the physical looks of Holt, telling staff he felt Holt was " too dark and too unattractive " to be the lead singer.

Before they turn gaseous, the carboxyl group is released from the molecule as carbon dioxide and water vapor at around 106 ° C ( 220 ° F ).

Before the 1940s, most artists in St Ives and West Cornwall belonged to the St Ives Society of Artists ; but events in the late 1940s led to a dispute between the abstract and figurative artists in the group.

Before Lewin and Festinger, there were, of course, descriptions of a very similar group property.

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.

After their distribution deal with Epic Records ended in 1984, the remaining Isleys signed with Warner Bros .. Before the contract could be completed, the group agreed with the IRS to sell their stock in T-Neck Records, folding the label in 1985.

Before beginning Ideen Husserl's thought had reached the stage where " each subject is ' presented ' to itself, and to each all others are ' presentiated ' ( Vergegenwartigung ), not as parts of nature but as pure consciousness.

Before he had finished, Thatcher " reached into her briefcase and took out a book.

Before he reached the post, he had occasionally been mentioned in western newspapers as a likely next leader and a man of the younger generation at the top level.

Before they reached the city, however, the remains were seized by some citizens of Ravenna and buried there in the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda, the burial place of Theodoric the Great.

Before her death in 1198, she named Innocent as guardian of the young Frederick until he reached his maturity.

Before the theory of continental drift, glacial deposits in Carboniferous strata in tropical continents areas such as India and South America led to speculation that the Karoo Ice Age glaciation reached into the tropics.

Before his return, Adorno had not only reached an agreement with a Tübingen publisher to print an expanded version of Philosophy of New Music, but completed two compositions: Four Songs for Voice and Piano by Stefan George, op. 7, and Three Choruses for Female Voices from the Poems of Theodor Daubler, op.

Before Buran, no project of the program reached production.

Before they even reached the Pacific a large amount of the expedition had died from disease, and they were in no shape to launch any sort of attack.

Before the treaty reached the Senate for ratification, and even before news of its signing reached New Orleans, a massive British invasion force was utterly defeated at the Battle of New Orleans, which made a national hero out of General Andrew Jackson.

Before a host plant is reached, the dodder, as other plants, relies on food reserves in the embryo ; the cotyledons, though present, are vestigial.

Before Hurricane David, annual output had reached about 7, 500 cu m ( 265, 000 cu ft ).

Before 09: 00, small parties from F / 116 and B / 116 reached the crests just east of Dog White.

Before he reached 19 years of age, Fargue had already published in L ' Art littéraire in 1894 and his important poem Tancrède appeared in the magazine Pan in 1895.

Before a truce was reached, three members of the IRSP were dead.

Before the war, the population had reached more than 3, 000.

Before the visitors were aware of it, the priest reached to a bureau drawer, pulled out a revolver, and pointing at the men said: ' Now you fellows have made trouble enough in this congregation.

Before the reign of John III, the Portuguese had already reached Siam ( 1511 ), the Moluccas ( 1512 ), the Chinese littoral ( 1513 ), Canton ( 1517 ) and Timor ( 1515 ).

Before Columbus even reached Isabella I of Castile, John II had already sent a letter to them threatening to send a fleet to claim it for Portugal.

Before it reached him, Ruhnken wrote a kind letter to Wyttenbach, which the recipient " read, re-read and kissed ," and another on receipt of the tract, in which the great scholar declared that he had not expected to find in Germany such knowledge of Greek, such power of criticism, and such mature judgment, especially in one so young.

Before the goal itself can be reached, necessary conditions must first be met.

Before, however, his Paper could be published, the works of Lassen and Burnouf reached him, necessitating a revision of his Paper and the postponement of its publication.

In 1984, Blancmange covered ABBA's single " The Day Before You Came ", which reached no.

Before 5 October 2007 Jaguar, while still controlled by Ford, reached agreement to permit then de-merging DaimlerChrysler to extend its use of the name Daimler.