`` Before then, my sales during much of the year had lagged behind 1960 by 20% '', he says.

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 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 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.

The earliest references to Yule are by way of indigenous Germanic month names ( Ærra Jéola ( Before Yule ) or Jiuli and Æftera Jéola ( After Yule ).

Before 500 AD East Germanic tribes dominated the area, who later on emigrated to the west.

Before the crusades, the region of Livonia was a mixed outpost, a pagan society where merchants from the Hanseatic League encountered merchants of Novgorod, and where Germanic, Scandinavian, and Russian trade, culture, and cults all mingled.

Before the Swiss, the region was occupied by Pagan and later Christian Germanic tribes which would become the Swiss.

Before the Germanic peoples, the region was occupied by Roman and Gallo-Roman populations.

Before the 5th century, Silesia was probably inhabited by the Germanic Silingi.

Before the advent of Christianity the Netherlands were populated by Celtic tribes in the South, which adhered to Celtic polytheism and Germanic tribes in the North, which adhered to Germanic paganism.

Before 1871, in the area where a single state of Germany now exists, different kingdoms and prinicipalities existed.

Before the conquest of Samudragupta Bengal was divided into two kingdoms: Pushkarana and Samatata.

Before 157 BCE some kingdoms were ruled by non-relatives, granted to them in return for their services to Emperor Gaozu.

Before the incorporation of the Subcontinent into the British Empire, nawabs ruled the kingdoms of Awadh ( or Oudh, encouraged by the British to shed the Mughal suzereignty and assume the imperial style of Badshah ), Bengal, Arcot and Bhopal.

Before the 15th century, the past of the Tenggerese was linked with the Majapahit and other kingdoms from the earlier period.

Before colonization, the Thiès Plateau was a wooded frontier between the kingdoms of Cayor and Baol inhabited by the Serer-Noon, an ethnic sub-group of the Serer people.

* Before the formation of the German Empire in 1871, Germany was indeed divided into a large number of smaller duchies and kingdoms, as detailed at the end of the story.

Before the Kingdom of England was established as a united entity, there were various kingdoms in the area — of which the main seven were known as the heptarchy.

Before the conquest, this territory contained a number of competing Mesoamerican kingdoms, the majority of which were Maya.

Before this, the Sidama had their own well-established administrative systems that dated at least to the 9th century, though it was made up of a loose coalition of Sidama kingdoms.

Before the conquest of Samudragupta Bengal was divided into two kingdoms: Pushkarana and Samatata.