Earlier group defections from the Watch Tower Society, most of them between 1917 and 1931, had resulted in a number of religious movements forming under the umbrella term of the Bible Student movement.

Earlier works include Viral Landscapes, a series of photographs from the late 1980s where blotches ( actually magnified images of cells from her body ) are superimposed over landscapes, and Meat Abstracts ( 1989 ) large photographs of meat juxtaposed with leather and fabric.

Earlier Pliny says that a large island of three days ' sail from the Scythian coast called Balcia by Xenophon of Lampsacus is called Basilia by Pytheas.

Earlier Andronikos III had effected the recovery of the islands of Lesbos and Chios from Martino Zaccaria in 1329 ( although the island remained under Benedetto III Zaccaria until 1330 ) and of Phocaea in 1334 from the last Genoese governor Domenico Cattaneo.

Earlier in 870, Yaqub bin Laith as-Saffar, a local ruler from the Saffarid dynasty of Zaranj, Afghanistan, conquered most of present-day Afghanistan in the name of Islam.

Earlier, the emperors had married women from families of the government-holding Soga lords, and women of the imperial clan itself, i. e. various-degree cousins and often even their own sisters ( half-sisters ).

Earlier in the 20th century, taller retaining walls were often gravity walls made from large masses of concrete or stone.

Earlier than any other German prince or any other member of the Hohenzollern line including even his younger brother Albert, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, he turned his eyes and heart to the new faith proceeding from Wittenberg.

Earlier, speaking of Ribbentrop's activities and of the views of his British friends, Leopold von Hoesch, the German Ambassador in London from 1932 – 36, warned that Berlin should "... not pay any attention to the Londonderrys and Lothians, who in no way represented any important section of British opinion ".

Earlier uses have been found in translations from the French.

Earlier fleets were obtained from Europe and China, but a trade embargo has forced North Korea to build their own vehicles.

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

Earlier Pliny says that a large island of three days ' sail from the Scythian coast called Balcia by Xenophon of Lampsacus is called Basilia by Pytheas.

Earlier, there was a strong romantic nationalist element mixed with Enlightenment rationalism in the rhetoric used in British North America, in the colonists ' Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution of 1787, as well as the rhetoric in the wave of revolts, inspired by new senses of localized identities, which swept the American colonies of Spain, one after the other, from 1811.

Earlier Christians fighting the Moors, such as Pelayo, could plausibly be described as natives opposing foreign invasion and conquest ; however, by the time most parts of Muslim Iberia were ( re ) conquered by Christian forces, the Muslim population there was centuries old, and much of it undoubtedly composed of converted Iberians rather than migrants from other Muslim lands.

Earlier references such as a reference to an actual seal from his vineyard are said not to prove he sold wine just fermented his grapes for his own use.

Earlier attempts at reconciliation of Christianity with Newtonian mechanics appear quite different from later attempts at reconciliation with the newer scientific ideas of evolution or relativity.

Earlier in the century David Hume had argued against notions of design with counter examples drawn from monstrosity, imperfect forms of testimony and probability, and it has been assumed that Paley could not have read Hume.

Earlier ccNUMA systems such as those from Silicon Graphics were based on MIPS processors and the DEC Alpha 21364 ( EV7 ) processor.

Earlier, while playing solitaire during his recovery from surgery, Ulam had thought about playing hundreds of games to estimate statistically the probability of a successful outcome.

Earlier, some works were published which constituted " future history " in a more literal sense — i. e., stories or whole books purporting to be excerpts of a history book from the future and which are written in the form of a history book — i. e., having no personal protagonists but rather describing the development of nations and societies over decades and centuries.

Earlier, Edward I had attempted to control the situation by exiling Gaveston from England.

| 1 | Earlier came migrations from surrounding territories including the north, the east, and the Sahel region of Africa.

Earlier releases of Bison used to stipulate that parts of its output were protected under the GPL, due to the inclusion of the yyparse () function from the original source code in the output.

Earlier this year, a dry wind from the Sahara brought down the temperature to as low as in the morning.

# Earlier manuscripts were copied in manuscripts dating from A. D. 1288 till the nineteenth century by scribes who introduced errors and corruptions.

Earlier Khoisan populations were absorbed by Bantu peoples, such as the Sotho and Nguni, but the Bantu expansion stopped at the region with winter rainfall.

Earlier, in the 17th century, rich ore deposits were discovered in the mountains and their systematic extraction began in the early 18th century, eventually turning the region into the largest mineral base of Russia.

Earlier in an era of prehistory the Sahara region to the south was not an arid desert, but rather in places grasslands grew with seasonal lakes, and corresponding flora and fauna.

Earlier, Riesling was sometimes claimed to have originated from wild vines of the Rhine region, without much support to back up that claim.

Earlier, in April and May 1521, five Portuguese ships docked at Tuen Mun to begin trading, but were ordered to leave once officials came to the region to announce the emperor's death.

Earlier, Guatemala had been a state within the United Provinces of Central America since 1823, before that part of the First Mexican Empire under Agustín de Iturbide, and before 1821 ruled by the Captain General of Guatemala, a Spanish colonial official owing allegiance to the Viceroy of New Spain and the King of Spain, back to the Spanish conquest of the region in the early 16th century.

Earlier that year ( 1921 ) the plebiscite was hold that was to determine the future of that region.

( Dr. Sanjay Alung ड ़ा. स ं जय अल ं ग-छत ् त ी सगढ ़ क ी प ू र ् व र ि य ा सत ें और जम ी न ् द ा र ि य ाँ) Earlier studies of the region were conducted by Verrier Elwin a colonial anthropologist, who went native.

Earlier eruptions built the white sands highlands in the region.

Earlier this region was known as Datta Mandalalu as these backward districts were ceded to the British rulers by the Nizam of Hyderabad in gratitude for British help in several wars.

Like the earlier PPNA people, the PPNB culture developed from the Earlier Natufian but shows evidence of a northerly origin, possibly indicating an influx from the region of north eastern Anatolia.

Earlier, the Kangxi Emperor visited the region as well.

Earlier sources give the more likely story that the Arab armies met a rare defeat at the Battle of Dongola and only acceded to the Baqt when they realized that the conquest of the region would be difficult.

Earlier the fort was likely just made of mud as were several such areas in the region.

Earlier Wallstrom was quoted as saying that this withdrawal would make the struggle against sexual violence in the region significantly more difficult.

Earlier, the Pratiharas helped the Chandels and other kings of the region in defending the country from the aggression of Muslim invaders from the Middle East.

Earlier proposal to establish a Government Engineering College in Kalahandi or Koraput region in 1980s was later on shifted to some other part in Orissa for political reasons.