Before thee, did not other kings possess it for a while, then pass away?

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

Before then, the government was a Crown colony consisting of either colonial administration solely ( such as the Executive Council ), or a mixture of colonial rule and a partially elected assembly, such as the Legislative Council.

Before the dispute started in 1964 the peoples of Cyprus ( then 77 % Greek Cypriots, 18 % Turkish Cypriots, 5 % other nationalities, including Armenians and Maronites ) were dispersed over the entire island.

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 the revolution Mubarak tolerated limited political activity by the Brotherhood for his first two terms, but then moved more aggressively to block its influence ( arguably leading to its recent rise in public support ).

Before then it was the capital of Elbląg Voivodeship ( 1975 – 1998 ) and a county seat in Gdańsk Voivodeship ( 1945 – 1975 ).

Before the Prussians and their neighbors to the west, the Pomeranians, were finally brought to heel, Polish rulers and the Duchy of Masovia, both by then Christianised peoples, would be continually frustrated in their aims at northern expansion.

Before being extradited, Van Hout and Holleeder stayed for more than three years in France, first on the run, then in prison, and then, awaiting a change of the extradition treaty, then with house arrest, and finally in prison again.

Before then, effectiveness of muzzleloaders was hindered by both the low reloading speed and, before the firing mechanism was perfected, the very high risk posed by the firearm to the person attempting to fire it.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

Before then, he was either mad, or not ; either a hero, or not ; with no in-betweens.

Before then each referee had always been assigned to a specific match by a special commission of referees ( designatori arbitrali ).

Before the nineteenth century, the scholar Nitsa Ben-Ari notes that his work was shunned like that of converts, then banned as those of a traitor, whose work was not to be studied or translated into Hebrew.

Before becoming a manga artist, Asamiya graduated from the Tokyo Designer School, then worked as a character designer for a number of anime series, and even designed models for some of the later Godzilla films ( 1980s ).

Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: " Before then ," he later wrote, " there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades.

Before the widespread availability of incendiary ammunition made commerce raiding too risky, they would also land or hover close to a merchant ship suspected of carrying contraband, order all ship's hands to leave in boats, then inspect the ship, and either destroy it or take it back to Germany as prize.

Before then the Germanic kingdoms had frequently conquered each other, but none had adopted the title of King of another people.

Before a battle the sarissa were carried in two pieces and then slid together when they were being used.

Before then, children have no social standing within the community.

He then teamed up with Dick Lester to devise a series of six TV programmes Before Midnight for ABC in Birmingham in 1958.

Before his consecration, Mellitus baptised Sæberht, Æthelberht's nephew, who then allowed the bishopric to be established.

Before turning to my views as to the problems and issues before us at this Regional Conference, I wish to note a small item in the Summary Report as it refers to the District of Columbia.

Before he died, Rabbeinu HaKadosh said: ‘ I need my sons !… Let the lamp continue to burn in its usual place ; let the table be set in its usual place ; let the bed be made in its usual place .” ( Kesubbos / Ketubot 103a )

Before she died, my mother told me to be happy that I was the son of this other man.

Before he dies from a gunshot wound, he tells his ex-wife Siobhan Ryan, the intended victim, about " losing my timing so late in my career ".

Before them both I held my shield of might

He said, " Before my boy left, before his time was gone, I wanted him to see the beauty of his country and its people.

He opined that Lerner and Loewe's score for The Day Before Spring the previous year was better than theirs for Brigadoon, explaining that, " If my first emotion last night was admiration rather than sheer enjoyment, it was because the proceedings seemed to me more marked by taste and style than by emotional warmth in book and music, but there is no denying that the authors have matured as theatrical craftsmen ".

Before the fight, Jeffries remarked " It is my intention to go right after my opponent and knock him out as soon as possible.

Before turning over the colors to another survivor of the 54th, Carney modestly said, " Boys, I only did my duty ; the old flag never touched the ground!

I used to be red when I'd play in front of people because I believed they were looking at my hand, which they probably weren't ... Before my accident with my finger occurred, my oldest brother was killed in a car accident and two weeks afterward my younger sister had her big toe cut off.

Before his own conversion in his thirties following a nervous breakdown in the Army, as she explains, " My father was Protestant Church of Ireland, and my mother was Unitarian up to the age of 20 when she abandoned it.

** Before the reading or chanting of the Gospel, the priest prays: " Cleanse my heart and my lips, O almighty God, who didst cleanse the lips of the prophet Isaias ...", a reference to Isaiah 6: 6.

Before receiving Communion from the chalice, the priest makes the sign of the cross over himself, saying ( in Latin ): May the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ keep my soul for eternal life.

Before his death, Franz Kafka wrote to his friend and literary executor Max Brod: " Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters ( my own and others '), sketches, and so on, to be burned unread.

In the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, the invocation includes the words " Before me Raphael ; Behind me Gabriel ; On my right hand Michael ; On my left hand Auriel ..."

Before this, cities and counties of sufficiently large populations such as most of Metro Atlanta already had Sunday alcohol sales at bars and restaurants, with local ordinances to abide by, such as having a certain amount of food sales in order to be opened and serve alcohol.

Before his breakthrough as a writer, Zola worked as a clerk in a shipping firm and then in the sales department for a publisher ( Hachette ).

Before becoming a board member for the Fiesta Bowl, he was a teacher and pharmaceutical sales representative for AstraZeneca.

Before he bought the Bentonville store, it was doing $ 72, 000 in sales.

Before this eventuated World Class were almost the sole performers in the club, managed by Alonzo who smooth-talked his way into obtaining a record deal from CBS Records for the group and was using money generated from sales to build an inexpensive four-track recording studio at the back of the club to cut records for his acts.

Before opening night, the producers had banked £ 10 million in receipts from advance ticket sales.

Before long, the News of the World established itself as the most widely read Sunday paper, with initial sales of around 12, 000 copies a week.

Before the opening, the box office had already taken in excess of £ 7 million in ticket sales.

Before meeting Fry and Leela and joining Professor Farnsworth's delivery crew at Planet Express where Bender currently works as the assistant manager of sales, he had a job at the metalworking factory, bending steel girders for the construction of suicide booths.

Before their departure, Howard called Rube Jackter, head of Columbia Pictures ' sales department, to confirm their benefit performance at Boston's Children's Hospital.

Before 2010 had nominations based only on sales and airplay and nominated every work, even if old.

Before the opening, the box office had already taken in excess of £ 7 million in ticket sales.

Before entering Parliament, he was a sales director of the Information Technology company, The Data Base Ltd Nottingham.

Before, after, and during presentations team members can help identify each other's flaws during their portion of the sales pitch.

Before North American sales began, the car was shown in the 2002 movie Men in Black II.

Before the first XB was sold, the cost was well over the target, leading to a sales price increase from the original price of $ 7, 995 to $ 9, 995.

Before A & P's buying Pathmark, Supermarket News ranked Pathmark No. 31 in the 2007 " Top 75 North American Food Retailers " based on Pathmark's fiscal year 2006 estimated sales of $ 4. 1 billion.

Before Russell Lee, a book which achieved sales of 3, 000 copies was considered a bestseller.

Before declaring bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth largest investment bank in the US ( behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch ), doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales and trading ( especially U. S. Treasury securities ), research, investment management, private equity, and private banking.

Before Earl retired, General Motors became the largest corporation in the world, and design was acknowledged as the leading sales factor within the automotive industry.

Before it was even officially released, Ferociously Stoned became a regional best-seller, setting a record for advance sales in Eugene's record stores and then remaining for over a year on The Rockets Northwest Top Twenty list, helping expand the Daddies ' touring reach to as far as Alaska and Los Angeles by 1992.

Before moving on to become Symantec's CEO in 1999, Thompson's 28-year career with IBM Corporation included senior executive positions in sales, marketing and software development, and lastly as general manager of IBM Americas as well as membership in the company ’ s Worldwide Management Council.

Before graduating Lagendijk worked as a book sales person at the publisher Van Gennep.