Before that time, most presidents delivered the State of the Union as a written report.

Before graduating in 1886, he played football for his college, took a first-class degree in Classics, and was one of the rare Liberal presidents of the Oxford Union, becoming known as a good speaker.

Before he is allowed to dissolve the Assembly, the President has to consult the Prime Minister and the presidents of both Houses of Parliament ( article 12 ).

Before the umpire development program was created, the Minor League presidents would recruit umpires directly from the schools.

Before each regularly scheduled meeting of the FOMC, System staff prepare written reports on past and prospective economic and financial developments that are sent to Committee members and to nonmember Reserve Bank presidents.

Before World War II, presidents were elected by the Sejm, in 1952 — 1989 presidency was absent at all ( some it's function were fulfilled by State Council of Poland at that time ).

Before the 1973-74 school years, both presidents signed an agreement for an affiliation between the two schools.

Before we built the new jail, we used to keep prisoners in here overnight sometimes when the old jail got too crowded.

Before the mention of Alemanni in the time of Caracalla, you would search in vain for Alemanni in the moderately detailed geography of southern Germany in Claudius Ptolemy, written in Greek in the mid-2nd century ; it is likely that at that time, the people who later used that name were known by other designations.

Before the enactment of the metric system, many countries in Europe used their own official acres.

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

In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

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.

Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were also used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters for long distance service.

Before the mid-1960s, computers were extremely expensive and used only for special-purpose tasks.

Before the thirteenth century, beer was flavoured with plants such as yarrow, wild rosemary, and bog myrtle, and other ingredients such as juniper berries, aniseed and ginger, which would be combined into a mixture known as gruit and used as hops are now used ; between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century, during which hops took over as the dominant flavouring, beer flavoured with gruit was known as ale, while beer flavoured with hops was known as beer.

* Before Christ, an epoch used in dating years prior to the estimated birth of Jesus

Before that, ancestors had used the patronymic naming system of Scandinavian countries: his father was named Ingemarsson after his father Ingemar Bengtsson.

Before being released back into the river, the used water was held in large tanks known as retention basins for up to six hours.

Before the 1970s, community colleges in the United States were more commonly referred to as junior colleges, and that term is still used at some institutions.

" (" Antes da Era Comum ", Before Common Era ) is generally used.

Before the current positive era of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox dialogues, Chalcedonians sometimes used to call the non-Chalcedonians " monophysites ", though the Coptic Orthodox Church in reality regards monophysitism as a heresy.

Before Caldwell, the word was traditionally used to designate the Tamil language and people, and vaguely the people of South India.

Before the development of silicon power rectifier diodes, cuprous oxide and later selenium was used ; its low efficiency gave it a much higher forward voltage drop ( typically 1. 4 to 1. 7 V per " cell ", with multiple cells stacked to increase the peak inverse voltage rating in high voltage rectifiers ), and required a large heat sink ( often an extension of the diode ’ s metal substrate ), much larger than a silicon diode of the same current ratings would require.

Before the advent of computer filter synthesis tools, graphical tools such as Bode plots and Nyquist plots were extensively used as design tools.

Before the 20th century, jewelers used the term water as in " a gem of the finest water " to express the combination of two qualities, color and crystal.

Before 1941, commercially successful color processes used special cameras loaded with black-and-white separation stocks rather than color negative.

Before the apparition of the first gospel, the gospel of Mark which was probably written around the years 65 – 70, Paul the Apostle used the term gospel when he reminded the people of the church at Corinth " of the gospel I preached to you " ( 1 Corinthians 15. 1 ).

Before the introduction of UTC on 1 January 1972 Greenwich Mean Time ( also known as Zulu time ) was the same as Universal Time ( UT ) which is a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.

Before its acquisition by Google, the gmail. com domain name was used by a free e-mail service offered by Garfield. com, online home of the comic strip Garfield.

Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he worked at the U. S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, Arizona, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews.

Before his mentor Sholes died in 1968, Atkins had become vice president of RCA's country division.

Before long, Corley's sinister vice president Adrian Ripburger enters and asks to speak to Ben privately.

Before entering politics, Harris was a marketing executive at IBM and a vice president of a commercial real estate firm.

Before that, he was a Raytheon executive vice president and president of Electronic Systems.

Before becoming an MP, he was a teacher and later a head of Mathematics between 1970 and 1981, before becoming the senior vice principal of the John Kitto Community College in Plymouth ( 1981 – 1992 ).

Before that, he had been a vice minister in the Ministry of Health for two years.

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Before this act, there was just one vice admiralty court in North America, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Before the affiliates came into being, Ken Saro-Wiwa who initiated the idea of MOSOP had attracted a mix of educated Ogoni elites and chiefs, including its first president Dr. Garrick Barile Leton, Chief E. N. Kobani became vice president of MOSOP.

Before becoming vice president and president, Nena served as Governor of Kosrae from 1979 to 1983.

Before that, she was senior vice president, general merchandising manager, for I. Magnin.

Before Meyerson's move to The Philanthropy Roundtable, he was the Heritage Foundation's vice president for educational affairs.

Before joining the Cato Institute, he was a vice president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.

Before his vice presidency, Habibi was the Minister of Justice under Prime Minister Mousavi.

Before 2pm, trains depart platform 2 for Melbourne, and Platform 1 for Bendigo, and vice versa for after 2pm, as most of the new track is on the platform 2 side.

Before the North American release of the PlayStation home console, Stolar became the first executive vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment America where he was in charge of business development and all content on the PlayStation platform.

Before joining Disney he was vice president of design and marketing for Kenner-Parker Toys.

Before Easter, the current college captain and his vice will write up a short-list on those they believe should take over next year.

Before becoming president, Jones served BJU as a teaching assistant, a residence hall supervisor, and the vice president for administration.

Before the wire can be attached to the block, a sufficient length of it must be pulled through the die ; this is effected by a pair of gripping pincers on the end of a chain which is wound around a revolving drum, so drawing the wire until enough can be coiled two or three times on the block, where the end is secured by a small screw clamp or vice.

Before entering government service, he was executive vice president of Sir James Goldsmith's U. S. holdings-which included America's then-largest private landholdings, sixth-largest forest products company, largest computer supplies supplier, and oil and gas interests-and president of Sea Pines Company, a developer / operator of recreation communities including Hilton Head Island.

Before that he worked in BP ’ s downstream segment as group vice president responsible for BP ’ s marketing operations in Europe.

Before joining The Scowcroft Group, Mr. Nealer advised multinational clients on investment issues, project finance, and trade law / policy as a principal in the consulting affiliate of Washington's largest law firm, and as vice president for corporate affairs with a leading government strategies practice.

Before becoming the security minister, he was the vice minister of the interior.