In his political testament, `` Advice To My Country '', penned just before his death, Madison expressed the wish `` that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

Frank had been given about half his legacy to use in a business venture before Papa's death ; ;

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

For before someone takes up an attitude toward death, suffering, or their infliction, they have no moral quality at all.

Even before his death this influence had begun to ebb.

A few years ago, not too long before his death, Phillips revealed in a newspaper story that he had always suspected Morse of the murders.

Stevenson's speech, and the spectacular disturbance in the gallery, were both touched off by the death, in Katanga, the day before, of Patrice Lumumba.

The opium had disappeared before Emile's death and whoever shot him could not by any stretch of the imagination have foreseen Sarah's own doubts and suspicions -- and questions.

On home sets children were watching the death throes of men who were shot before the paredon, the firing wall.

I say `` apparently '' although I saw Jouvet as Arnolphe when he visited this country shortly before his death ; ;

Lincoln rejected the idea, saying, " I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.

He was a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1985, just before his death in 1987.

He was, however, obliged to surrender and was carried a prisoner before the sultan, who condemned him to death.

Galois showed just before his untimely death that these efforts were largely wasted.

After he left home before the age of eighteen, his main interest in life was his opposition to the death penalty, which he regarded as state-sponsored murder.

Poirot himself noted that he wanted to kill his victim shortly before his own death so that he could avoid succumbing to the arrogance of the murderer: viewing himself as entitled to kill those he deemed necessary to eliminate.

George ( his last name is never revealed ) is a stereotypical English valet who enters Poirot ’ s employment in 1923 and does not leave his side until the 1970s, shortly before Poirot ’ s death.

The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles ), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book ( Curtain ), where he visits Styles once again before his death.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

The convicts were put in chains, paraded before the congregation at the Reverend Cotton's lecture as an example, and sent to prisons in various towns, where they languished all winter, chains included.

Even some of the queens will die before the winter is over, falling prey to enemies or disease.

After Germany's failure to destroy the Soviets before the winter of 1941, the strategic failure above the German tactical superiority became apparent.

The canal was featured on Ripley's Believe It or Not in the 1970s due to the phenomenon that in winter the canal freezes before the lakes and then after the lakes freeze, the canal thaws and remains unfrozen for the rest of the winter.

It followed the same principles as the Sifen calendar, except the year began one month before ( the second new moon before the winter solstice, which now fell in the second month of the year ).

Drake decided to remain the winter in San Julian before attempting the Strait of Magellan.

Possibly he composed his verses during idle times on the farm, in the spring before the May harvest or the dead of winter.

When conditions are harsh, often before winter or in poor feeding conditions, sexual reproduction occurs in some hydras.

Mean minimum temperatures in the winter range from near freezing ( just before dawn ) in the northern and northeastern foothills and the western desert to and in the alluvial plains of southern Iraq.

*: The northwest seasonal wind in winter gives heavy snowfalls, which south of Aomori mostly melt before the end of winter.

* Spring lambs, born in late winter or early spring, are usually sold before July 1.

He was made Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in 1985, before being promoted to become Minister of State in the same department in 1986, first attracting national media attention over cold weather payments to the elderly in January 1987, when Britain was in the depths of a severe winter.

On 10 July 1941 Ribbentrop ordered General Eugen Ott, the German Ambassador to Japan to :" Go on with your efforts to bring about the earliest possible participation of Japan in the war against Russia ... The natural goal must be, as before, to bring about the meeting of Germany and Japan on the Trans-Siberian Railroad before winter sets in.

In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before the winter ; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in the spring.

Henry crossed the Alps that winter, appearing early in 1077 as a barefoot penitent in the snow before the gates of Matilda's ancestral castle of Canossa, where the pope was staying.

According to Dr. Vitalii Nikolaevich Tsygichko, a Senior Analyst at the Academy of Sciences, the author of the study, Mathematical Model of Soviet Strategic Operations on the Continental Theater, and a former member of the General Staff, military analysts discussed the idea of a " nuclear winter " ( although they did not use that exact term ) years before U. S. scientists wrote about it in the 1980s .< REF > http :// www. gwu. edu /~ nsarchiv // nukevault / ebb285 /</ REF >

On its journey from New Zealand to the Antarctic, Terra Nova was trapped in pack ice for 20 days, far longer than other ships had experienced, which meant a late-season arrival and less time for preparatory work before the Antarctic winter.

Continuing to the south of Victoria Island, the ship cleared the Canadian Arctic Archipelago on 17 August 1905, but had to stop for the winter before going on to Nome on the Alaska District's Pacific coast.

The third winter saw Maud frozen in the western Bering Strait, before finally reaching Seattle for repairs in 1921.

* First tracks, in winter sports, cutting through fresh snow or ice before anyone else does