Before they could guess his intention Rankin stepped forward and swung the guard's own gun against the uncovered head, hard.

Before him, mutilated, bleeding to death, they lay.

Before the Juniors entered the ring the Steward announced that after all Juniors had moved their dogs around the ring and set them up, they could relax with their dogs.

Before the passage of the lex annalis, individuals could run for the Aedileship by the time they turned twenty-seven.

Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.

: Before this time, and a long time thereafter, they believed in groves and barrows, sanctuaries, and sacred enclosures and in the pagan gods.

Before he can answer, the Kents tell her that they raised Superman alongside Clark like a brother.

Before the work of Lyell, phenomena such as earthquakes were understood by the destruction that they brought.

Before a diver competes they must decide on a " list " this is a number of optional dives and compulsory dives.

Before long, bills weren't being paid, authors ' advances and royalties were delayed, budgets were cut back, and most of Donald's time was spent trying to soothe authors and agents who were indignant, and had every right to be, at the way they were treated.

Before Sapir it was generally considered impossible to apply the methods of historical linguistics to languages of indigenous peoples because they were believed to be more primitive than the Indo-European languages.

Before the Christian has faith, they must understand in whom and in what they have faith.

Before General Motors invited Bel Geddes to submit a proposal for the exhibit, they had planned to put in another production line as was featured at their exhibit in the Century of Progress Exposition of 1933 in Chicago.

Before the assembled cardinals and delegations could engage in theological discussion, they had to decide how to sit during the proceedings.

Before the IBM representatives would explain the purpose of their visit, they insisted that Dorothy sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Before World War II, mechanical and electrical analog computers were considered the " state of the art ", and many thought they were the future of computing.

Before the multitudinous components of present biochemistry could come to lean together they had to lean on something else.

Before Irenaeus, Christians differed as to which gospel they preferred.

Before they attacked him, he threw a rock into the crowd.

Before they left, Rachel stole the teraphim, considered to be household idols, from Laban's house.

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.

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American ( Indian ) and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U. S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.

Before the twenty slave girls were distributed among the Spanish captains to serve them in " grinding corn ", Cortés insisted that they be baptized.

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

Before it cycles on again, humidity can build up and make you uncomfortable even though the temperature is still low.

Before the towed artillery can be used, it has to stop, unlimber and set up the guns.

# Before fading in the new track, check that the beats of two tracks match by listening to both channels together in the headphones, as the sound from the speakers can reach you with a delay.

Before Mu Bai can kill Fox, the masked thief reappears and partners with Fox to fight.

As the name implies, comic strips can be humorous ( for example, " gag-a-day " strips such as Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Marmaduke and Pearls Before Swine ).

Some are non-verbal ( Marmaduke, The Angriest Dog in the World ), some have verbal thoughts but are not understood by humans, ( Garfield, Snoopy in Peanuts ), and some can converse with humans ( Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Mutts, Citizen Dog, Buckles, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine and Pooch Cafe ).

The terms " Common Era ", " Anno Domini ", " Before the Common Era " and " Before Christ " in contemporary English can be applied to dates that rely on either the Julian calendar or the Gregorian calendar.

Before it emerged as a unique discipline, control engineering was practiced as a part of mechanical engineering and control theory was studied as a part of electrical engineering, since electrical circuits can often be easily described using control theory techniques.

) Before a major fire, typical chaparral plant communities are dominated by manzanita, chamise ( also called greasewood or Adenostoma fasciculatum ) and Ceanothus species, Toyon ( which can sometimes be interspersed with scrub oaks ), and other drought-resistant shrubs with hard ( sclerophyllous ) leaves ; these plants resprout ( see resprouter ) from underground burls after a fire.

Before Xavier can heal Daken a psychic bomb explodes causing Xavier to become comatose and Daken to wake up.

Before going further with serious experimentation, it can be convenient to check one ’ s programs at the PC using a suitable cross-assembler, such as the portable PDP-8 / DG Nova cross-assembler listed in the External links section, before attempting execution in the RDOS environment.

Before anyone can move, tiles are drawn and laid out across the board.

Before she can strike it, the firemen flee, save for Montag, who watches as the woman lights the match, drops it in the kerosene, and is engulfed in flames.

Before Montag can finish, Mildred gets a call from her friends about coming over to watch The White Clown on the parlor walls.

* Short-lived nature of gene therapy – Before gene therapy can become a permanent cure for any condition, the therapeutic DNA introduced into target cells must remain functional and the cells containing the therapeutic DNA must be long-lived and stable.

" Before she can cry any further, Rhett asks Scarlett to marry him saying, " I always intended having you, one way or another.

Before John Doe can be granted access to protected information it will be necessary to verify that the person claiming to be John Doe really is John Doe.

The spokesperson for Agudath Israel of America, Rabbi Avi Shafran, attacked the film with an article " Dissembling Before G-d ", maintaining that gay people can be cured through therapy, and that the movie is meant to promote homosexuality:

Before he can sell the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, he is discovered by the British and is killed by members of MI5 who stage his death as a heart attack.

Before any institution invests a great deal of time and energy into building high-quality e-learning content ( which can cost over $ 10, 000 per classroom hour ), it needs to consider how this content can be easily loaded into a Learning Management System.

Before a new Big 8 newsgroup can be created, an RFD ( Request For Discussion ) must be posted into the newsgroup news. announce. newgroups, which is then discussed in news. groups. proposals.

Before natural gas can be used as a fuel, it must undergo processing to clean the gas and remove impurities including water to meet the specifications of marketable natural gas.