Before 1900, Peirce treated abduction as the use of a known rule to explain an observation, e. g., it is a known rule that if it rains the grass is wet ; so, to explain the fact that the grass is wet ; one infers that it has rained.

Before its invention, wet country roads became muck and were often nearly impassable.

Before the development of baby formulas in the 20th century, when a mother was unable to breastfeed her baby, the baby's life was put in danger if a wet nurse was not available.

Before use, any objects such as hair in the plug grate should be removed and, if possible the overflow hole should be sealed with a wet cloth.

Before making the leap to provincial politics, he got his feet wet at the municipal level as both alderman and then mayor for the city of Sarnia.

In the period immediately before the Last Glacial Maximum, many areas that became completely barren desert were wetter than they are today, notably in southern Australia where Aboriginal occupation is believed to coincide with a wet period between 40, 000 and 60, 000 years BP ( Before Present, a formal measurement of uncalibrated radiocarbon years, counted from 1950 CE ).

Before the pier was built, passengers to Ryde had the uncomfortable experience of coming ashore on the back of a porter and then, depending on the state of the tide, having to walk as far as half a mile across wet sand before reaching the town.

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Before Delaware was settled by European colonists, the area was home to the Eastern Algonquian tribes known as the Unami Lenape or Delaware throughout the Delaware valley, and the Nanticoke along the rivers leading into the Chesapeake Bay.

* Before the 2009 season, the right field roofbox seating area was renovated and expanded and the original 1912 seating bowl was water-proofed and seats replaced.

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

Before LG Enhanced IPS was introduced in 2009, the additional transistors resulted in blocking more transmission area, thus requiring a brighter backlight and consuming more power, making this type of display less desirable for notebook computers.

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Before World War I there was a well-known colony of Molokans that had been exiled to the Caucasus ( an area long within Russian hegemony ), mainly to what is now Armenia, Azerbaijan, and eastern Turkey ( Kars plain ).

Before their overthrow they use the Sagoths, a race of gorilla-men who speak the same language as Tarzan's apes, to enforce their rule over the human tribes within the area which they rule.

Before European colonisation, the area had been inhabited by the Whadjuk Noongar people for over 40, 000 years, as evidenced by archaeological findings on the Upper Swan River.

Before that the area has been known as Roden, which is the coastal equivalent to inland Hundreds.

Before about 1860, most bay shores ( exception: rocky shores such as those in Carquinez Strait, along Marin shoreline, Point Richmond, Golden Gate area ) contained extensive wetlands that graded nearly invisibly from freshwater wetlands to salt marsh and then tidal mudflat.

Before the district was built, it mainly was agricultural area with some villages.

Before the war the Germans constituted 16 % of the population in the area.

Before printing occurs, the frame and screen must undergo the pre-press process, in which an emulsion is ' scooped ' across the mesh and the ' exposure unit ' burns away the unnecessary emulsion leaving behind a clean area in the mesh with the identical shape as the desired image.

Before this episode, Jesus had been " all about Galilee " preaching, as in Matthew 4: 23, and " great crowds followed him " from all around the area.

Before being deposited, sediment was formed by weathering and erosion in a source area, and then transported to the place of deposition by water, wind, ice, mass movement or glaciers which are called agents of denudation.

Before their defeat in 174 BC by the Romans, tribes of Ligures, the Statielli, dominated the area and the toponym probably derives from Ast which means " hill " in the ancient Celtic language.

Before any planning occurs the Engineer must take what is known as an inventory of the area or if it is appropriate, the previous system in place.

Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape ( Delaware ) Indians in the village of Shackamaxon.

Before early modern nation-building, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe as a low-lying triangular river delta for the rivers Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems.

Before European settlement, the area in which Canberra would eventually be constructed was seasonally inhabited by Indigenous Australians.

Before European expansion into the area, the Arapahos were living in South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and Kansas.

Before the 1880s mortality rates in lying-hospitals would reach unacceptably high levels and became an area of public concern.

Before the Spanish conquest, the area that now is El Salvador was composed of three indigenous states and several principalities.

Before Europeans arrived, the New Haven area was the home of the Quinnipiac tribe of Native Americans, who lived in villages around the harbor and subsisted off local fisheries and the farming of maize.

Before planting, all clothes should be inspected for dodder seed when moving from an infested area to a non-infested crop.

Before memory, too, clouds over, let us make a note or two of what could be seen.

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

Before your first training experiment has ended there will be a big improvement and almost before you know it you'll be raising and lowering yourself just like a veteran!!

Before considering these elements in more detail, an additional requirement should be stated.

Before the accelerometers are mounted on the platform, the direction of their sensitive axis must be accurately determined.

Before adjournment Monday afternoon, the Senate is expected to approve a study of the number of legislators allotted to rural and urban areas to determine what adjustments should be made.

Before He left them He promised that His peace would be their portion to abide in their hearts and minds.

Before the closing of the acquisition, NYSE Euronext announced that the AMEX would be integrated with the Alternext European small-cap exchange and renamed the NYSE Alternext U. S.

Before his death, he was absolved from the excommunication ; moreover, the Pope also promised that the King of Hungary and his relatives would not be excommunicated without the special permission of the Pope.

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

Before this, cities and counties of sufficiently large populations such as most of Metro Atlanta already had Sunday alcohol sales at bars and restaurants, with local ordinances to abide by, such as having a certain amount of food sales in order to be opened and serve alcohol.

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.

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 ).

Fire Bet: Before the shooter begins, some casinos will allow a bet known as a fire bet to be placed.

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 Stalin's consolidation of power, the Central Committee featured open debate, where even leading officials could be criticised.

) 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 1990, CPU design was often done for this market, but mass market CPUs organized into large clusters have proven to be more affordable.

Before the RISC philosophy became prominent, many computer architects tried to bridge the so called semantic gap, i. e. to design instruction sets that directly supported high-level programming constructs such as procedure calls, loop control, and complex addressing modes, allowing data structure and array accesses to be combined into single instructions.

Before embarking on a sea voyage, planning and preparation will include studying charts, almanacs and navigation books and recent weather conditions of the route to be followed.

Before the 1999 season, fans began discussing Earnhardt's age and speculating that with his son, Dale Jr. getting into racing, Earnhardt might be contemplating retirement.

Before a systematic excavation of the site could be undertaken, the village had to be relocated but the residents resisted.