Before the introduction of the Phoenix missile, most other US aircraft relied on the smaller, less-expensive AIM-7 Sparrow ; classified as a Medium Range Missile ( MRM ).

Before the end of the Civil War and the introduction of the 1662 prayer book, something like a half a million prayer books are estimated to have been in circulation.

Before this, the pests were manually collected by humans, so the introduction of the toad eliminated labor costs.

Before the introduction of UTC on 1 January 1972 Greenwich Mean Time ( also known as Zulu time ) was the same as Universal Time ( UT ) which is a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.

Before James Brown appeared on stage, his personal MC gave him an elaborate introduction accompanied by drumrolls, as the MC worked in Brown's various sobriquets along with the names of many of his hit songs.

Before the introduction of the term paraphilia in the DSM-III ( 1980 ), the term sexual deviation was used to refer to paraphilias in the first two editions of the manual.

Before the introduction of postage stamps, mail in the UK was paid for by the recipient, a system that was associated with an irresolvable problem: the costs of delivering mail were not recoverable by the postal service when recipients were unable or unwilling to pay for delivered items, and senders had no incentive to restrict the number, size, or weight of items sent, whether or not they would ultimately be paid for.

Before the introduction of the compass, celestial navigation was the main method for navigation at sea.

Before the introduction of western cookware it was often used for all cooking techniques including:

Before the introduction of HTML and HTTP, other protocols such as File Transfer Protocol and the gopher protocol were used to retrieve individual files from a server.

Before the introduction of postal codes in Norway in 1968, it was easy to confuse the name Kristiansund with Kristiansand in the south.

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 introduction of digital electronic high-impedance analog transistor and field effect transistor ( FETs ) voltmeters were used.

Before the development of vaccination and the introduction of a vaccine, it was a common childhood disease worldwide.

Before the introduction of the mumps vaccine, the mumps virus was the leading cause of viral meningoencephalitis in the United States.

Before the introduction of a vaccine, the mortality of the severe form of smallpox — variola major — was very high.

Before the recent introduction of SystemVerilog, C ++ integration with a logic simulator was one of the few ways to use OOP in hardware verification.

Before the introduction of icebreakers, navigation was halted in the winter.

Before the introduction, Stanley has a private conversation with Buckley, and is pleased to learn that the young man is the head of a small company and that he is capable of providing a comfortable life for Kay.

** Before the introduction of rollfilm, folding plate cameras with limited movements as described here were often used ; an example is the Goerz Taro-Tenax 9x12cm.

Before the introduction of firearms, bows or crossbows were often used — Saint Sebastian is usually depicted as executed by a squad of Roman auxiliary archers in around 288 AD ; King Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia, by some accounts, was tied to a tree and shot dead by Viking archers on 20 November 869 or 870 AD.

Before its market introduction, the 1201 was renamed 8008, following the new naming convention started with the 4001 / 2 / 3 / 4.

Before the introduction of the iPad, Axiotron introduced the Modbook, a heavily modified Apple MacBook, Mac OS X-based tablet computer at Macworld in 2007.

Before the introduction of gas generally in the parish there was a limited supply from the Mill to separate houses.

* In Arabic, بعد الميلاد ( After the Birth ) corresponds to CE, while قبل الميلاد ( Before the Birth ) corresponds to BCE.

Before Arabic became the dominant language, Syriac was a major language among Christian communities in the Middle East, Central Asia and Kerala.

Before 1928, the Uzbek language, like most Central Asian languages, was written in various forms of the Arabic script ( Yana imla ) by the literate population.

Before 1929, Turkmen was written in an Arabic alphabet.

Before 1947, the word qirsh was spelled with the initial Arabic letter غ, after which the word began with ق.

Before his death Wait oversaw the adaptation of his point system to more than twenty different languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese.

Before 1928 the alphabet used for the Nogai language was based on the Arabic script.

Before Arabic became the dominant language, Syriac was a major language among the Assyrian people | Assyrian Christian communities of the Middle East and Central Asia.

Before this formal establishment of an Elementary School, a madrasa named Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Madrassa, has been functional since 1990's where children were given opportunity to learn Arabic, Islamic culture, and English.

Before 2001, Angham's musical style was in majority based on Arabic classics and rarely on modern music styles.

Before the 20th century, Malay was written in a modified form of the Arabic alphabet known as Jawi.

Before the influence of Islam, Arabic music was associated with prostitution and drunken entertainment.

Before their loss, however, his Pahlavi version was translated into Arabic by Ibn al-Muqaffa under the title of Kalila and Dimna or The Fables of Bidpai and became the Arabs ' greatest prose classic.

Arabic, Nuclear Science and Society ( 1974 ), Before It's Too Late: A Scientist's Case for Nuclear Power ( 1983 ), and The Nuclear Energy Option, Alternative for the Nineties, ( 1990 ) in translation for Japanese and Spanish.

Before studying the Arabic language, he learned Turkish and French.

Before the Cheers pilot, " Give Me a Ring Sometime ", was finalized and then aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees of Cheers, the bar, in the original script.

Before Radama I the Malagasy language was written in a script known as sorabe.

Before each airborne operation a jumpmaster runs through the " Sustained Airborne Training " script, which contains a number of points of performance.

Before the advent of the codex ( book ), Latin and Greek script was written on scrolls.

Before he had even seen a script, Azaria recorded several lines of dialogue as Moe for the episode " Some Enchanted Evening ".

Before Anderson became a filmmaker, one of the jobs he had was as an assistant for a television game show, Quiz Kid Challenge, an experience he incorporated into the script for Magnolia.

Before being reprinted in Ellison's book in 1996, the original script of " The City on the Edge of Forever " had been published in 1976 in " Six Science Fiction Plays ," edited by Roger Elwood ( ISBN 0-671-48766-3 ).

Before 1880 all the administrative works in Bihar was done in this Persian script and possibly all the educated Muslims in the Bhojpuri speaking region wrote unofficial works in Nastaʿlīq script.

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 show opened, LaPaglia was sent a script for the pilot of The Sopranos and met its creator, David Chase, to discuss the role of protagonist Tony Soprano.

Before the script was finished, casting for the six main roles began ; 75 actors were seen for each part.

Before the third part of the trilogy was published, Morgan worked on his idea for Market Forces, which he had thought of as a short story but then developed as a film script, then as a novel.

Before casting him in the role of Neo for the 1999 film The Matrix, the Wachowski Brothers asked Keanu Reeves to read this book ( as well as Simulacra and Simulation and Introducing Evolutionary Psychology ) before even opening the script.

Before the introduction of Sirijonga script among Limbu Kiratas, Rong script was popular in East Nepal, especially in the early Maurong state.

Before Rick Moranis was cast as " nutty " inventor Wayne Szalinski, the script was written with Chevy Chase in mind because of his popularity in National Lampoon's Vacation.

Before he departs, the Operative tells Mal of how much trouble he had caused the Alliance ( in the shooting script, he states that they had gotten multiple complaints from several worlds ), and warns him that, although their regime is weakened, they will be after him in revenge.

Before the recording session took part, the main voice actors of the show ( Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, and Hank Azaria ) sat down with executive producer David Mirkin and a crew of writers at a table reading to determine what shape the script was in.

Before it could be filmed, however, script issues needed to be dealt with.