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 Meiji Restoration, shrines were disorganized institutions usually attached to Buddhist temples, but they were claimed by the government during the imperial period for patriotic use and systematized.

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 his death, however, Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople had drawn up the Ecthesis in response to the orthodox synodical letter of Sophronius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and on learning of the death of Pope Honorius had convinced the Emperor to issue this document as an imperial edict in December 638, thus valid across the entire empire.

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 1868, there were three main forms of Shinto: Shrine Shinto, the most popular type ; Folk ( or Popular ) Shinto, practiced by the peasants ; and Imperial Household Shinto, practiced by the imperial family of Japan.

Before the repeal of imperial examinations in 1906, he attained the rank of Xiucai, which allowed him to qualify as a civil servant.

Before his death, Genghis Khan divided his empire among his sons and immediate family, making the Mongol Empire the joint property of the entire imperial family who, along with the Mongol aristocracy, constituted the ruling class.

Before the reign of Theodosius II, synagogues were seen as private property and were protected by the imperial government.

( Before and after Emperor Wen, generally, imperial concubines without children were required to guard the emperor's tomb for the rest of their lives.

Before the war crimes trials actually convened, SCAP, the IPS and Shōwa officials worked behind the scenes not only to prevent the imperial family being indicted, but also to slant the testimony of the defendants to ensure that no one implicated the Emperor.

Before and during World War II, the square was often used by imperial motorcades when Emperor Showa traveled between Kyoto and Tokyo.

Before, Jiang Wan had led the various camps of the imperial bodyguards north to cope with the disorders.

Before the advance of Islam in Transoxiana ( early 8th century ), Khwarezmian was written in a script close to that of Sogdian and Pahlavi with its roots in the imperial Aramaic script.

Before the incorporation of the Subcontinent into the British Empire, nawabs ruled the kingdoms of Awadh ( or Oudh, encouraged by the British to shed the Mughal suzereignty and assume the imperial style of Badshah ), Bengal, Arcot and Bhopal.

Before his coronation, imperial Germany dissolved after losing the world war.

" Before Yamatohime-no-mikoto's journey, Amaterasu-ōmikami had been worshiped at the imperial residence in Yamato, then briefly at Kasanui in the eastern Nara basin.

Before the Mongols ' rise, the Old World system consisted of isolated imperial systems.

Before this the imperial crown was worn over a miter.

Before the end of the 19th century and while Paoli was still in his twenties, he went on a tour of Europe that earned him both popular acclaim, and imperial honors from princes, kings, and emperors.

Before Charles could regroup, orders arrived from the Aulic Council, the imperial body in Vienna charged with conduct of war, to countermand his plan ; Charles ' troops were to leave Zurich in the supposedly capable hands of Korsokov, re-cross the Rhine and march north to Mainz.

Before their accession to the imperial throne, Maria gave birth to their eldest child, the future Nicholas II, at the Alexander Palace.

Before he was a senator of Lübeck and sent three times as ambassador Lübeck's to Paris, where he attended on 1 April 1810 the marriage of Napoleon I and Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma in the Louvre and later the " banquet imperial " there, distorting in his ironical, Jonathan Swift citing comment a line of Virgil's Aeneid: " quaeque et pulcerrima vidi, et quorum pars parva fui.

Before the Swedish forces entered Barth in 1630, retreating imperial troops led by Maritzen looted the town.

Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.

Before she leaves she sternly notes that her daughter will not disclose any information whatsoever about her family, past, or herself and that Carmilla is of sound mind.

Before the 20th century many double basses had only three strings, in contrast to the five to six strings typical of instruments in the string family or the four strings of instruments in the violin family.

Before these modifications, the design of their shoulders was closer to instruments of the violin family.

* 1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.

Before long, the Borgia family no longer needed the Sforzas, and the presence of Giovanni Sforza in the papal court was superfluous.

Before that time, chiefs and heads of family exercised authority over segments of the population.

Before the marriage of Lady Diana Spencer to her grandson Prince Charles, and after Diana's death, Queen Elizabeth – known for her personal and public charm – was by far the most popular member of the royal family.

Before that, only a few earlier experiments, typically in newly built upper-middle-class family homes, had open kitchens.

Before his reign, Philip occupied an exalted place in the royal family of France as a grandson of King Louis XIV.

Before her death, Clytemnestra curses Orestes and the Erinyes or Furies, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety, come to torment him.

Before deployment, Lazarus again visits his family, whereupon he learns that Maureen is as attracted to him as he is to her.

Before tenth grade, Koufax's family moved back to the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.

Before he can get it, he is blackmailed by various entities, including his own parole officer, a minor Newark Mafia family headed by the Mario brothers ( a reference to Nintendo's Mario Bros .), and the CIA into doing several dangerous art heists with his singing partner in crime, Tommy " Five-Tone " Messina ( Danny Aiello ).

Before she moves to Paris, he runs after her at the airport and describes the family they had in the alternate universe in an effort to win back her love.

Before closing in December 1992, the Fairmont plant was one three frozen vegetable processing plants producing product for the United Foods family of canned vegetables for sale throughout the United States.

Before entering Cardozo High School and shortly after the Gay family relocated to D. C .' s Deanwood neighborhood in northeastern Washington, he had joined several doo-wop groups in the D. C. area, including the Dippers, which featured his friend Johnny Stewart, brother of R & B singer Billy Stewart.

Before he was 5 years old, his paternal grandfather ordered all members of the Rubinstein family to convert from Judaism to Russian Orthodoxy.

Before the special Eid meal is served, young children will line up in front of each adult family member who dispenses Riyals ( Saudi currency ) to the children.

Before 1104 the father was given the prebend of Cantlers by Maurice, Bishop of London, and the family moved to England.

Before the Franks family could pay the ransom, Tony Minke, a Polish immigrant, discovered the body.

The rest of the album contained original songs created by him or members of his family, including " Season's Greetings ", " You're All I Want And Need For Christmas ", " It's Christmas All Over The World ", " Christmas Eve's Blues ", " Something Good This Christmas ", and " The Bethlehem Story ", a rewrite of Burke's own version of The Little Town of Bethlehem story, or The Night Before Christmas .” The final track on the album is " The Christmas Prayer ", a ' thank you ' sermon from Burke, which had been written by Burke in 1980, and released by Savoy Records in 1982 as the flip side to his cover of " Silent Night.

Before returning to his family he finds his shot had found its mark.