Before unification, German territory was made up of 27 constituent states.

Note: Before unification in 1968 of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Navy, rank structure and insignia followed the British pattern.

Before unification in 1940, the City of New York made plans for expanding the Subway system.

Before unification, each monarchy ( for example, the Great Dukedoms of Hesse and Baden ) had its own army.

Before unification, al-Attas served as Prime Minister ( 1985 – 1986 ) and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council ( 1986 – 1990 ) in the southern PDRY.

* Switzerland Before the Swiss unification, the Swiss also minted Ducats.

Before May – June 1919, some combination of fighting and negotiation among the major Beiyang leaders was expected to lead to military unification, which in turn would permit the restoration of the constitutional political processes that Yuan Shikai had disrupted.

* Before unification, Bunke was a folk legend in East Germany.

Before unification, many of the Italian states used the lira as their currency.

Before the unification of Norway, Romerike was a petty kingdom.

Before unification, the different German states issued a variety of different currencies, though most were linked to the Vereinsthaler, a silver coin containing 16⅔ grams of pure silver.

Before 1862 and the unification of Italy, the town was known just as Paderno.

Before the unification of Egypt, the land was settled with autonomous villages.

Before unification of the City of Anchorage and the Greater Anchorage Area Borough in 1975, Spenard was a city in its own right.

Before the agreement was dissolved, Gaddafi had thought that one merger within the region would lead to regional unification and ultimately unification of the Arab world.

Before the start of a fully established Romanticism concomitant with the Revolutions of 1848, some Romanticist ideas ( e. g. the usage of national language to rally for national unification of all classes ) were developing, especially among monastic clergy in Vojvodina.

Before the unification of Italy,

Before the Supreme Court of the United States, De Forest was granted the regeneration patent in what is today widely regarded as a misunderstanding of the technical facts by the Supreme Court justices.

The constitution act stipulates that: " Before assuming office, a person appointed to be Governor shall take the Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance and the Oath or Affirmation of Office in the presence of the Chief Justice or another Judge of the Supreme Court.

Before 2006 democracy movement in Nepal forced King to restore democracy in 2006, Article 119 of the 1990 constitution stated that the His Majesty the King is the Supreme Commander of the Royal Nepal Army.

Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education.

Before troops could be raised, the Militia Act of 1792 required a justice of the United States Supreme Court to certify that law enforcement was beyond the control of local authorities.

Before the Evarts Act, the cases that could reach the Supreme Court were heard as a matter of right, meaning that the Court was required to issue a decision in each of those cases.

Before hostilities erupted, Bonifacio reorganized the Katipunan into an open de facto revolutionary government, with him as President and commander-in-chief ( or generalissimo ) of the rebel army and the Supreme Council as his cabinet.

Before serving as president, Khatami had been a representative in the parliament from 1980 to 1982, supervisor of the Kayhan Institute, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance ( 1982 – 1986 ), and then for a second term from 1989 to May 24, 1992 ( when he resigned ), the head of the National Library of Iran from 1992 to 1997, and a member of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution.

Before 1989, the university was known in Greek as the Supreme School of Economics and Business ( Ανωτάτη Σχολή Οικονομικών και Εμπορικών Επιστημών, Anotati Scholi Oikonomikon kai Emborikon Epistimon, abbrev.

Before this time, the Hohenzollern sovereign had held many titles and crowns, from Supreme Governor of the Protestant Churches ( summus episcopus ) to King, Elector, Grand Duke, Duke for the various regions and realms under his rule.

Before taking the office, the candidate must swear an oath of office administered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, promising to uphold the Constitution and laws of the state.

Before he was sentenced, the US Supreme Court ruled that the statute was drafted with unconstitutional vagueness and henceforth will only cover " fraudulent schemes to deprive another of honest services through bribes or kickbacks supplied by a third party who ha not been deceived.

Before the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Cairns denied under oath having had a sexual relationship with Morosi.

Before the establishment of the High Court, appeals from the state Supreme Courts could be made only to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which involved the great expense of physically travelling to London.

Before that he had served as a Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court for Michigan Territory, was appointed by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of the Louisiana Territory and started to build his political base in St. Louis.

Before the Supreme Court was established in 2004, the Chief Justice was more of an administrative role, with the right to sit on any case.

Before the Legislature could act, the Oklahoma Supreme Court intervened to the benefit of Johnston.

Before the Allies advanced into Nazi Germany in February 1945, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ) began to form dedicated units to secure important objectives — equipment, installations, intelligence, and personnel.

Before 1999, however, the Irish Supreme Court affirmed in consistent rulings that Article 2 created no rights or obligations that were actually enforceable in a court of law.

Before the Court of Appeals was created the number of cases handled by the Minnesota Supreme Court amounted to about 1800.

Before the new constitution was enacted, President Boris Yeltsin had dissolved the Congress of People's Deputies and Supreme Soviet of Russia during the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, although he did not have the formal constitutional powers to do so.

Before assuming the presidency he studied law and was a member of the Supreme Court from 1945 to 1951.

Before the entry into force of Protocol 11, Section II ( Article 19 ) set up the Commission and the Court, Sections III ( Articles 20 to 37 ) and IV ( Articles 38 to 59 ) included the high-level machinery for the operation of, respectively, the Commission and the Court, and Section V contained various concluding provisions.

Before his replacement arrived, Mason ordered 1, 000 Michigan militiamen to enter Toledo and prevent the symbolically important first session of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas.

Before becoming President, Taft was selected to serve on the Ohio Superior Court in 1887.

Before turning to the question whether to overrule Austin and part of McConnell, it is important to explain why the Court should not be deciding that question.

The Hitler Trial Before the People's Court in Munich.

Before the Court could hear the oral arguments, Justices Black and Harlan retired.

Before 1 February 1833, in common with the admiralty and ecclesiastical courts, appeal from the Court was to the Crown in Chancery, with appeals being heard by Commissioners appointed by letters patent under the Great Seal in each case.

Before Woolf had even published his final report, Sir Geoffrey Bowman, a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and former First Parliamentary Counsel, was commissioned to write a report on the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal.

" The Issue Before the Court: Who Gets Ahead in America?

What was never in dispute, however, was that the OT used millions of forced laborers ( Zwangsarbeiter ) from the occupied countries of the Reich during World War II, and that the judging panel at the Nuremberg Trials ( formally, the " Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Court ") in 1946 sentenced Speer to 20 years ' imprisonment for having headed this organisation and thus sanctioned the international illegal use of forced labor.

* Before the Court: Nearing — Debs: 1.

Wardle Before Lord Ellenborough in the Court of King's Bench, Westminster on December the 11th, 1809.

Before Karn Megiddo's plot is revealed Kuzgu is believed to be the mastermind behind the Sorrowing Court.

Before the Civil War, the railroad bypassed Clover Hill, now known as the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park.