Earlier in the Cultural Revolution, Sichuan had been notable for the violent battles that rival organizations of local Red Guards had fought against each other.

Earlier, in 1768, Royal officials tried to place his publishers Edes and Gill on trial for an incendiary newspaper essay Warren wrote under the pseudonym A True Patriot, but no local jury would indict them.

Earlier in the day local police roughed up members of the group and threatened to shut the shop down.

Earlier that day, Thomasin had planned to marry Damon Wildeve, a local innkeeper known for his fickleness ; however, a minor change in disposition as regards to Wildeve delayed the marriage.

Earlier that afternoon, Slepian's wife Lynne had forwarded a warning of potential attacks on her husband to a local police inspector.

Earlier in the week local Conservatives in the riding wrote a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper asking that he not interfere with the local Conservative riding association's process of choosing a candidate.

Earlier he specialized in portraiture and still lifes ; however, upon moving to Pasadena in 1896, he turned his attention to the local landscape.

Earlier in his career, Barnard and Culhane were guests with two other Twin Cities radio show duos on a local morning television show in 1988.

Earlier this year, local media reported that Romania sought to buy used F-16s from the Netherlands, but the plan was eventually scrapped.

Earlier that day-on the morning of the executions-Quds, the local daily newspaper in Mashhad, had published a report on the executions.

Earlier settlements upriver at Gaspereau, and downriver at the Range, existed prior to 1820, consisting of local settlers and Maine businessmen who established the first sawmills on the Salmon and Gaspereau Rivers.

Earlier, it was thought that Bräslav was the person who gave the town Pressburg its German name Brezalauspurc ( see 907 ), later Pressburg, and maybe also its new Slovak name Bratislava ; nowadays, it is assumed that Pressburg / Brezalauspurc is a distortion of Predeslausburg, a name derived from Predslav, who was ( according to some historians ) the ruler of Bratislava around 900 and the 3rd son of the Great Moravian king Svätopluk ; the modern Slovak name Bratislava, however, is assumed to be derived ( by mistake ) from the name of the Czech ruler Bretislav I.

Earlier scholars like Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani have dated Dionysius much earlier, between the years 115 and 100 BCE, making him the ruler of the Swat and Dir Valleys and the weak successor of Polyxenos.

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, 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 in that same dynasty, a similar attack on Hatshepsut was carried out.

Earlier fragmentary documents describing the analysis have been found at Dunhuang, suggesting that the tradition may date back to the late Tang dynasty.

As a television journalist he began by making three polemical documentaries with filmmaker Paul Yule – " Mugabe's Secret Famine " ( 2003 ), " Afghanistan – Here's One We Invaded Earlier " ( 2004 ), and " Not Cricket – The Basil D ' Oliveira Conspiracy " ( 2004 ).

Earlier in Charkaoui's case, Charkaoui's lawyer introduced an arrest warrant for Ahmed Ressam for an incident that occurred in Montreal at a time when Ressam claimed, under oath in another case, to have been in a training camp in Afghanistan.

Earlier, the Classical Romans interacted with ( and later conquered ) parts of Mauretania, a state that covered northern portions of modern Morocco and much of north western and central Algeria during the classical period.