Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.

Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado ( see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak ).

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

Before 1910 the difficulty of harmonizing the Proprium de Tempore and the Proprium Sanctorum, to which reference has been made, was only partly met in the thirty-seven chapters of general rubrics.

Before 1873, England had two parallel court systems: courts of " law " that could only award money damages and recognized only the legal owner of property, and courts of " equity " ( courts of chancery ) that could issue injunctive relief ( that is, a court order to a party to do something, give something to someone, or stop doing something ) and recognized trusts of property.

Before Young, only two pitchers had thrown perfect games.

Before the entry into the American market in 1958, Nissan did not produce cars under the Nissan brand name, but only trucks.

Before the 20th century many double basses had only three strings, in contrast to the five to six strings typical of instruments in the string family or the four strings of instruments in the violin family.

Before that time the friars had only a temporary residence in Rome at the convent of San Sisto Vecchio which Honorius III had given to Dominic circa 1218 intending it to become a convent for a reformation of nuns at Rome under Dominic's guidance.

Before the advent of fast computing machines, solving a dynamical system required sophisticated mathematical techniques and could be accomplished only for a small class of dynamical systems.

Before the snap of the ball, in the American game, backfield players may only move parallel to the line of scrimmage, only one back may be in motion at any given time, and if forward motion has occurred, the back must be still for a full second before the snap.

Before 2007 there existed only a few other places on the Formula 1 calendar with a body of water close to the track.

Before, geologists could only use fossils to date sections of rock relative to one another.

Before Cantor, there were only finite sets ( which are easy to understand ) and " the infinite " ( which was considered a topic for philosophical, rather than mathematical, discussion ).

Before the discoveries, the only source of information about Hittites had been the Old Testament ( see Biblical Hittites ).

Before the war broke out, Poland entered into a full military alliance with Britain and France ; the western powers lacked the will to confront Nazi Germany and their ( false ) assurances of imminent military action were only intended as pressure applied to deter Hitler.

Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light only in a few locales.

Before consolidation of many of these rural school districts in the last half of the twentieth century, Indiana high schools had fewer students than those of most other states ; basketball was a natural game for these schools since it only required five starters and a few reserves.

Before railway construction on the Continent demanded huge quantities of maleable iron mainly for rails, for which low quality iron sufficed, Wallonia was the only Continental region to follow the British model successfully.

Before 1500 European economies were largely self-sufficient, only supplemented with Asia and Africa.

Before the English Civil War, a pamphlet by William Neade entitled The Double-Armed Man advocated that soldiers be trained in both the longbow and pike ; this advice was followed only by a few town militias.

Before the Revolution, despite supporting political reform ( including Bolsheviks elected to the Duma, when opportune ), Lenin proposed that capitalism could ultimately only be overthrown with revolution, not with gradual reforms — from within ( Fabianism ) and from without ( social democracy ) — which would fail, because the ruling capitalist social class, who hold economic power ( the means of production ), determine the nature of political power in a bourgeois society.

Before 1830, writing ( except in higher education ) equated to rote drills in the rules of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, penmanship and transcription of adult texts.

Before the advent of government-funded public schools, the primary mode of education for those of the lower classes was the charity school, pioneered during the 19th century by Protestant organizations and adapted for use by the Roman Catholic Church and governmental bodies.

Before long, the Americo-Liberian ruling elite was living rather prosperously, sending their children to America for ( often racially segregated ) high school and college education, and keeping the indigenous peoples excluded from all political and economic leadership.

Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish, prohibiting the language in education and broadcast media.

Before her marriage, Majer studied physical education at Temple University and later became the first woman to head the Physical Education Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Before his imprisonment, Patrice arranged for his wife and children to move into exile in Egypt, where François spent his childhood, then went to Hungary for education ( he holds a doctorate in political economics ).

Before she began her education under Sophia Charlotte's care, Caroline had received little formal education ; her handwriting remained poor throughout her life.

Before this, only the summer semester was coeducational, to accommodate women teachers who wanted to further their education during the summer break.

Before the advent of the European system of education in Mysore, agraharas ( Brahmin quarters ) provided Vedic education to Hindus, and madrassas provided schooling for Muslims.

Before the 1990s, the kindergarten education experience was only offered in the city by private specialty schools ( past examples being Cassidy's and Happy Time ).

Before becoming a detective, an officer must attend a law enforcement academy, providing the officer with a foundation of education with sixteen to twenty-four college units in criminal justice or administration of criminal justice.

Before the educational system of Byron was moved to Cowley, public education in the town of Byron was provided by Big Horn County School District # 1.

Before the 1970s when Malay was made the medium of instruction, many such selective schools became known for providing excellent English-medium education and have produced many notable alumni, including the current Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Tun Razak ( St. John's Institution ) and all five of his predecessors.

Before the end of the war, the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act ( Morrill Act of 1862 ) was passed to provide for federal funding of higher education by each state with the details left to the state legislatures.

Before that time, instruction in media education was usually the purview of individual teachers and practitioners.

Before this Carleton had hoped to obtain an education as a poor scholar at Munster, with a view to entering the church ; but he was shaken by an ominous dream, the story of which is told in the Poor Scholar, and he returned home.

Before the 20th century only a small minority of people received an advanced academic education.

Before the adoption of the democratic Weimar Constitution it was not allowed to teach in another language than German in school ( apart from religious education lessons ).

Before that, he attended a jesuit college, either in Kraków or Sandomierz, achieving a solid middle education.

Before this point there had been no formal demarcation between primary and secondary education as known in modern society.

Before 2005, the University applied the French education model of granting academic degrees, with some minor differences: demi-licence ( two years ), trois-quarts de licence ( three years ), licence ( four years ), diplôme d ' études approfondies and diplôme d ' études superieures spécialisées ( DEA / DESS ) ( 1 – 2 years ), and doctorate ( 3 – 5 years ).

Before Highfields School was founded in 1982, when the tripartite education system in Matlock ended, there were two secondary schools in Matlock ; Charles White Secondary Modern School ( founded in 1956, and named after two local MPs, father and son, the latter of who died in 1956 ) and Ernest Bailey's Grammar School ( founded in 1924 and named after its wealthy founder ).

Before the earthquake in 2010, the school provided education to more than 1, 350 students in the kindergarten, primary and secondary levels.