Before the war Tjaden was a locksmith.

Before the Civil War he was firmly against secession, but when the war started he nevertheless took the side of the Confederacy.

Before the war ended, the colony fell under the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

Before the buildup to the war gay servicemembers were court-martialed, imprisoned, and dishonorably discharged, but in wartime commanding officers found it difficult to convene court-martial boards of commissioned officers and the administrative blue discharge became the military's standard method for handling gay and lesbian personnel.

Before the Israeli military occupied Sinai during the June 1967 War ( Arab-Israeli war, also known as the Six-Day War ), a single Egyptian governorate administered the whole peninsula.

Before the Ethiopian civil war, the national carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, flew to numerous African, Asian, and European cities, and had sole rights on domestic air traffic.

Before the 1980s Soviet war, Afghanistan pursued a policy of neutrality and nonalignment in its foreign relations, being one of a few independent nations to stay neutral in both World War I and World War II.

Before the war, Carthage had the most powerful navy in the western Mediterranean.

Before the war, trade reform and price liberalization were the most successful part of the country's structural adjustment program under IMF sponsorship.

" Before the war, everyone felt that what was happening onstage was impossible.

All Genoshan mutants leave for Asteroid M. Before long, the country is taken over by Magneto who is ready to declare war on humanity with the Genoshan mutants by his side, following an attack on Professor X during an anti-mutant summit.

Before the war ended, the Australian Government took steps to encourage an Australian automotive industry.

Before the war, African political focus was diffuse.

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Before the cold war began in the late 1940s, Foot favoured a ' third way ' foreign policy for Europe ( he was joint author with Richard Crossman and Ian Mikardo of the pamphlet Keep Left in 1947 ), but in the wake of the communist seizure of power in Hungary and Czechoslovakia he and Tribune took a strongly anti-communist position, eventually embracing NATO.

Before the war Nazi German state sent undercover operatives to spy on Polish organisations and created lists of people that were to be executed and sent to concentration camps.

Before the 1997 war, about 15, 000 Europeans and other non-Africans lived in Congo, most of whom were French.

Before the 1997 civil war, the Republic of the Congo's system of government was similar to that of the French.

Before the beginning of the Syrian uprising / civil war, the obligatory military service period was being decreased over time.

Before the war Rome and Hasdrubal the Fair had made a treaty.

Before the onset of the Second World War, the United Kingdom drew on its First World War experience to prepare legislation that would allow immediate mobilization of the economy for war, should future hostilities break out.

Before the dawn of civilization, war likely consisted of small-scale raiding.

Twentieth-Century Fox made a succession of war films realistically filmed in black-and-white in the early 1950s that highlighted little-known aspects of World War II, among them The Frogmen, Go For Broke !, You're in the Navy Now, and Decision Before Dawn.

* 1264 – Before May – Second Barons ' War, an English civil war, begins.

Before his relationship with Monica, Chandler dated Janice Hosenstein in season 1 and subsequently broke up with her many times.

Before use, one or both of the matches was lit ; when the bottle broke on impact, the mixture ignited.

Before the conflict broke out, the Adam Opel AG had established itself as the largest motor vehicle manufacturer in Europe.

Before he broke off his attack, he managed to lodge the lead in the creature's throat.

Before the Low Countries could be completely reconquered, a war between England and Spain ( the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 )) broke out, forcing Spanish troops to halt their advances and leaving them in control of the important trading cities of Bruges and Ghent, but without control of Antwerp, which was then arguably the most important port in the world.

Before World War I broke out his most serious " setbacks " were third place at Hastings 1895 ( where he may have been suffering from the after-effects of typhoid fever ), a tie for second at Cambridge Springs 1904, and a tie for first at the Chigorin Memorial in St Petersburg 1909.

Before the fleet could reassemble, a peasant revolt broke out in Vendsyssel, where Canute was staying, in early 1086.

Before the formation of UTJ and the establishment of Degel HaTorah, the two factions were united under one united Agudat Yisrael party, but the late mentor and supreme guide of the non-Hasidic group, Rabbi Elazar Shach ( 1898-2001 ) broke away from the Hasidic wing when it was clear that the party was not living up to its mandate to represent all Torah Jewry.

Before December 1866, there was no city fire department, and fires in the city, which broke out regularly in the wooden buildings, were extinguished by several volunteer fire companies.

Before 42 Up, he married, and Apted broke the seven-year structure of the films to film Bruce's wedding, which was also attended by Neil.

Before the era of firearms, these nomads were militarily superior to the agricultural states on the periphery of the Eurasian continent and, if they broke out into the plains of northern India or the valleys of China, were all but unstoppable.

Before 1992, the person elected president had always carried the primary, but Bill Clinton broke the pattern in 1992, as did George W. Bush in 2000, and Barack Obama in 2008.

Before 1965, after passage of the Civil Rights Act broke the color line in hiring, less than 2 % of textile workers were African American.

Before World War II broke out, San Miguel had built a glass factory in Paco and the Cebu Royal plant, its first installation outside Luzon.

Before Titanic, on 16 March 1912, he became engaged to Mabel Ludlow, but he broke off the engagement in September when he met Lucy Downie, whom he married on 10 April 1920.

Before World War II broke out, Mermelstein lived in Munkacs, then part of Czechoslovakia ( occupied by Hungary in 1938 ).

Before they managed to return to the Empire's capital, a mutiny broke out and the road to the city was blocked.

Before Queen Isabella handed over the regalia to Ferdinard in 1551, she broke the cross off the crown ’ s peak for her son, John Sigismund.

Before Ruffian broke down, she always led the field by over half a length, and once there no other horse ever passed her ; she would not allow it, as demonstrated in her Sorority race when she refused to let Hot n ' Nasty by her, even though she suffered from a freshly popped splint.

Before the plebiscite took place, two Silesian Uprisings supporting the Polish option broke out.

Before hostilities broke out between the states, Gwin toured the South and then returned to California.

Before they made it to the river, Beauchamp broke free and overpowered one of the men.

Before war broke out between Russia and Georgia in 2008, Dugin visited South Ossetia and predicted, " Our troops will occupy the Georgian capital Tbilisi, the entire country, and perhaps even Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, which is historically part of Russia, anyway.

Before the train reached the surface, several cars broke loose and ran back down the slope of No. 4, derailing along the way and hitting a power line, causing it to arc and ignite the coal dust at the level ( below surface ).