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 Pleasure Victim was completed, Van Patten and Ruiz-Velasco parted ways with Nunn, Crawford, and Diamond.

Before recording this album, Weller had parted company with his existing band, resulting in the replacement of everyone except guitarist Steve Cradock.

Before that could happen, band and label parted as did Peters and myself.

Before working on their new album, the band parted ways with bass player Mike Celi and hired Darren Simoes as a permanent replacement.

Before they parted, Portal remarked " So we'll probably see each other tomorrow evening.

Before she parted with Freedom Force, she swore that she would return and defeat them.

Before the release of " Mind Over Mind ", the band parted ways with drummer Dave Rankin and replaced him with Jason Stewart.

Before performing this decisive action, Vector Prime passed on to the young human Bud his planet map, and parted from Safeguard to spare him his fate.

Before being shot, Dragutin Dimitrijević made a written confession to the court that he had ordered Rade Malobabić to organize the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

Before her death, on November 15, 1908, she allegedly ordered her trusted eunuchs to poison the Guangxu Emperor.

Before his replacement arrived, Mason ordered 1, 000 Michigan militiamen to enter Toledo and prevent the symbolically important first session of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas.

Before the consultation could happen, however, in accordance with Santa Anna ’ s nationwide call to disarm state militias, Colonel Domingo Ugartechea, who was stationed in San Antonio, ordered the Texans to return a cannon given to them by Mexico that was stationed in Gonzales.

Before Sigismund died, he ordered to be buried next to the king saint.

Before Jim can decide what to do, his unit is ordered to the front.

Before their marriage, Marguerite took revenge upon the Marquis de St. Cyr, who had ordered her brother to be beaten for his romantic interest in the Marquis ' daughter, with the unintended consequence of the Marquis and his sons being sent to the guillotine.

" Before being taken to hospital, Delanoë ordered that the festivities continue.

Before roads and railroads connected the village to other nearby settlements, such as Milford, most residents of Terrace Park kept cattle and chickens, and engaged in other agricultural activities for their own subsistence, and had " homesteads " as opposed to the ordered residential village of today.

Before he was 5 years old, his paternal grandfather ordered all members of the Rubinstein family to convert from Judaism to Russian Orthodoxy.

Before the transaction performs its first action (), it is marked with the current timestamp, or any other strictly totally ordered sequence:.

Before the square was completed, Henri IV ordered the Place Dauphine to be laid out.

Before the Continuation War five more torpedo boats were ordered from Italy.

Before then, it had been a traditional farming village, with the canals used for irrigation ; Tanaka Yoshimasa ordered the canals to be maintained and built a castle in Yanagawa, which is still maintained today.

Before the relocation, Dong ordered his troops to excavate the tombs of the late Han emperors for treasures and sent his men to seize valuables from the wealthier residents in Luoyang, as well as burn down the palaces and anything that might be useful to the allied forces.

Before dawn the following day, the crack Highland regiments were ordered to advance in close order.

Before and during the invasion, citizens of Zamami were ordered by the Japanese military to commit suicide using hand grenades.

Before Laughlin could prepare his next move he was ordered to withdraw by Ferguson, and the attempt to dislodge the Chinese was subsequently abandoned.

Before leading the final sortie by the castle garrison, Zrinski ordered a fuse be lit to the powder magazine.

Before the Invasion of Poland, approximately 49, 400 ( out of 90, 000 ordered ) were delivered to the army.

Before the blaze, Happy Land was ordered closed for building code violations in November 1988.

Before dawn, November 24, Bouchard ordered his men to board the boats.

Before he died he ordered that his remains be kept at Doi Luang, the highest mountain of the Thanon Thong Chai Range, which was renamed Doi Inthanon after his death.

Before he left he ordered a systematic destruction of Diriyah, whose ruins have remained untouched ever since.