Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalise his career.

Before turning in a mainstream direction in the 1980s, NDW attracted a politically conscious and diverse audience, including both participants of the left-wing alternative scene and neo-Nazi skinheads.

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 their lines collapsed, Warner's men arrived on the scene to reinforce Stark's troops.

Before shooting a seduction scene between Eli Wallach and Carroll Baker, he privately asked Wallach, " Do you think you actually go through with seducing that girl?

Before the final color of the pixel can be decided, a lighting calculation must be performed to shade the pixels based on any lights which may be present in the scene.

Before production started, Colbert severely injured her back, while filming a scene for Three Came Home.

Before the invention of photography, people commonly hired painters and engravers to " re-create " an event or a scene.

Before people of European descent came on the scene, the region around the present town of Pond Creek was traversed by many of the nomadic Native Americans of the Great Plains.

Before leaving the murder scene, Gotti and Gravano drove over to view the bodies.

In the animated Waking Life, he shared a single scene with former co-star Julie Delpy continuing conversations begun in Before Sunrise.

Before Season 5's end, a scene in the city would be shown at least once in the second season of Buffys spinoff, Angel.

Before calculating the distances needed at the different fields of view, the constant width of the scene has to be calculated.

Before the pilot aired ( on September 12, 1959 ), the song sequence, deemed too campy, was edited out of the scene and instead the Cartwrights headed back to the ranch whooping and howling.

Before that happened, the main adult characters teased Big Bird when he said he had seen the Snuffleupagus, because they did not believe there was such an animal, often despite evidence to the contrary ( such as an oversized teddy bear that Snuffy had left behind, or segments in which Snuffy interacted with other characters, such as a street scene where Snuffy was seen playing London Bridge with some of the neighborhood kids ).

Co-star Constance Moore remembered, " Before Mr. Fields did the famous Ping-Pong scene he wanted Mr. Cline.

Before the flashback scene, we see that Sylvia travels to Boston seeking funding for her school, which serves black children.

In and around Johannesburg the growth of the independent music scene led to not just a surge of bands ranging from big names ( relatively speaking ) Tribe after Tribe, The Dynamics and The Softies through to smaller hopefuls What Colours, Days Before and No Exit, but also to the growth of a vibrant DIY fanzine scene with " Palladium " and " One Page to Many " two titles of note.

Before her execution ( scene: 斬竇娥 " Zhai Dou E "), Dou E swore that her innocence would be proven when:

Before most of the firefighting resources could be brought to the scene, the fire had established a large perimeter.

Much of it has an electronic sound, mostly influenced by the ' 80s rock scene, but it also includes blues songs like " Before You Accuse Me ," " Running On Faith ," and " Hard Times.

Before the gang could finish burying William, a passerby spotted them and they had to flee the scene.

Before the destroyers left the scene, Hostile fired her torpedoes at the merchant ships in the harbour.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

Before deciding where it is going, however, a college or university must know where it is.

Before it cycles on again, humidity can build up and make you uncomfortable even though the temperature is still low.

Before adjournment Monday afternoon, the Senate is expected to approve a study of the number of legislators allotted to rural and urban areas to determine what adjustments should be made.

Before dropping the anchor, the fishing process is reversed, and the anchor is dropped from the end of the cathead.

Before the mention of Alemanni in the time of Caracalla, you would search in vain for Alemanni in the moderately detailed geography of southern Germany in Claudius Ptolemy, written in Greek in the mid-2nd century ; it is likely that at that time, the people who later used that name were known by other designations.

Before the actual process of cell death is precipitated by enzymes, apoptotic signals must cause regulatory proteins to initiate the apoptosis pathway.

Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the season, as it is common in other West Germanic languages to this day ( cf.

Before the end of this World Cup Glenn McGrath stated that Lara is the greatest batsman that he has ever bowled to.

Before the formation of Malaysian Federation, the Philippines claimed that the Malaysian state of Sabah in north Borneo is within their territorial rights based on historical facts of the Sultanate of Sulu's leasing agreement with the North Borneo Company, is presently an unresolved claim against Malaysia.

Before this discovery, it is widely believed that bricks appeared about 3000 years ago in the Western Zhou dynasty since the earliest bricks were found in Western Zhou ruins.

In Earnest J. Gaines ' novel, " A Lesson Before Dying " Bayonne, Louisiana is the name of a Cajun town central to the book.

Before the renovations the entire building was all male, but now every house is co-ed.

Before 1873, England had two parallel court systems: courts of " law " that could only award money damages and recognized only the legal owner of property, and courts of " equity " ( courts of chancery ) that could issue injunctive relief ( that is, a court order to a party to do something, give something to someone, or stop doing something ) and recognized trusts of property.

Before the Norman conquest in 1066, justice was administered primarily by what is today known as the county courts ( the modern " counties " were referred to as " Shires " in pre-Norman times ), presided by the diocesan bishop and the sheriff, exercising both ecclesiastical and civil jurisdiction.

Before 1938, the federal courts, like almost all other common law courts, decided the law on any issue where the relevant legislature ( either the U. S. Congress or state legislature, depending on the issue ), had not acted, by looking to courts in the same system, that is, other federal courts, even on issues of state law, and even where there was no express grant of authority from Congress or the Constitution.

Before the 1970s, community colleges in the United States were more commonly referred to as junior colleges, and that term is still used at some institutions.

This act is commonly criticized by modern cartoonists including Watterson and Pearls Before Swines Stephan Pastis.

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

BCE is the abbreviation for Before the Common / Current / Christian Era ( an alternative to Before Christ, abbreviated BC ).