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 broke out, Poland entered into a full military alliance with Britain and France ; the western powers lacked the will to confront Nazi Germany and their ( false ) assurances of imminent military action were only intended as pressure applied to deter Hitler.

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 Paula can leave, Pierre returns and robs her, telling her that he knows about their crimes and will turn her in to the police if she calls them for help.

Before 1974 all crimes and offences were prosecuted at the suit of ( after action taken by ) the Attorney General.

Before and since those elections, however, present and past members have been connected or prosecuted for serious violent crimes.

Before he formally assumed his post, he was arrested by Chinese authorities and sentenced to 18 years in prison for tax evasion and other economic crimes.

Before the merging of the Watches, the Day Watch dealt with all crimes committed during daylight.

Before his deportation he repeatedly pointed to US and British support for Hussein during all of his worst crimes, ultimately he argued that it was the people of Iraq who would suffer most from war.

Before she could be arrested and tried for her crimes of sorcery, she died.

Before meting punishments for crimes, Islamic law requires the removal of the causes of such crimes.

Before the Tribunal convened, Nikitchenko explained the Soviet perspective of the trials :" We are dealing here with the chief war criminals who have already been convicted and whose conviction has been already announced by both the Moscow and Crimea declarations by the heads of the governments ....

Before the development of digital computing, serious trials based on automata such as El Ajedrecista of 1912, were too complex and limited to be useful for playing full games of chess.

Before pharmaceutical companies start clinical trials on a drug, they conduct extensive preclinical studies.

Before participating in a clinical trial, interested volunteers should speak with their doctors, family members, and others who have participated in trials in the past.

Before enacting the Goseibai Shikimoku, the Kamakura shogunate conducted trials without formal laws.

Before the war ended, the need for forward-throwing weapons had been recognized by the British and trials began.

Before the GOG was founded, most clinical trials were small studies from single institutions or case reports and lacked the statistical power to convince physicians around the world to adopt innovative treatment strategies.

Before joining NBC News, Abrams worked as a reporter for Court TV where he covered the OJ Simpson case, as well as the International War Crimes Tribunal from the Netherlands and the assisted-suicide trials of Dr. Jack Kevorkian from Michigan.

Before turning professional, he had joined the Territorial Army and later had trials with the British Army but was not accepted for a role with them due to his inability to hit the target during shooting practices.