Earlier that day, Navratilova lost her women's doubles quarterfinal match against Chinese fourth seeds Yan Zi and Zheng Jie, also the eventual champions.

Earlier the election was widely expected to be a relatively easy romp for Martin to a fourth consecutive Liberal majority government, but early in 2004 Liberal popularity fell sharply due to the sponsorship scandal.

Earlier strips involved fictional version of staff interacting with comic characters, while later strips removed this element, it always retains elements of comical gags relating to the issues main story, often containing fourth wall breaking.

Earlier in Daniel chapter 7, and also in chapter 2, however, the fourth and final world empire is actually Rome, since Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome were world empires which all clearly arrived in succession.

Earlier in the fourth season, ABC had announced and promised an additional fifth year of the show, so the show's producers and writers were caught unprepared when ABC later changed its mind and decided that no new episodes would be produced.

Earlier in the fourth season Willow's boyfriend, Oz, left college in an attempt to grapple with the uncontrollable feral side of being a werewolf, leaving Willow devastated for several episodes.

Earlier Worlds occasionally used Rochester Drafts instead of Booster Drafts, also the fourth day of Worlds hosted a team format, for the national teams to compete in, but beginning with the 2007 Worlds, World Championships have been shortened to four days instead of five.

Earlier, in the late eighteenth century, when Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, the fourth Nawab of Awadh, attempted to grant the kshatriya title of Raja to a group of influential landed Ayodhya Kurmis, he was thwarted by a united opposition of Rajputs, who were themselves ( as described by Buchanan ), " a group of newcomers to the court, who had been peasant soldiers only a few years before ..." According to historian William Pinch: ( The ) Rajputs of Awadh, who along with brahmans constituted the main beneficiaries of what historian Richard Barnett characterizes as " Asaf's permissive program of social mobility ," were not willing to let that mobility reach beyond certain arbitrary socio-cultural boundaries.

Earlier, on May 26, 1922, on the fourth anniversary of the independence of Georgia, he was one of the organizers of the first mass anti-Soviet demonstration in Tbilisi and was arrested by the GPU.

Earlier in that season Lara scored six centuries in seven innings while playing for Warwickshire.

Earlier that season, Rose had been ranked at number 25 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players.

Earlier in the season during interleague play, Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens hit Piazza in the head with a fastball.

Earlier in the season, Hurricane Charley caused significant but less serious damage, estimated to cost $ 700, 000.

Earlier that season, Cardinals general manager " Trader Frank " Lane began negotiations to trade him for Philadelphia pitcher Robin Roberts.

Earlier releases consisted of single episodes on VHS ( double episodes in the UK and some countries, edited together into " movie " format ; later in the UK, a selection of first and season episodes were released by Playback on both VHS and DVD ), most notably a United Kingdom 18 certificate cut of the pilot episode, presented as a standalone film ( reshuffling and reworking many scenes, and removing much of the continuity ties with the following series, as well as incorporating footage from the first season episode " Mad Over Miami ", and with profanity that was not present in the aired version ).

Earlier that season, Niekro was suspended for ten games when umpire Steve Palermo discovered a nail file in his pocket.

" Earlier in the season, Keane had publicly advocated the breakup of the Treble-winning team as he believed the team-mates who had played in United's victorious 1999 Champions League final no longer had the motivation to work as hard.

Earlier in the competition Rush scored a hat trick as Liverpool beat Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park, the team who would go on to win the Premier League that season.

Earlier in the season, in January 2008, the team had hosted the annual D-League Showcase, in which all the league's teams played two games each in a five-day period.

Earlier in the same season, Rovers had lost in the final of the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy against Hull.

Earlier, in the same season, he had taken 6 wickets in an innings twice against Bangladesh during Bangladesh's tour of Pakistan.

Earlier in the season he had partnered Australian John Campbell to the Quarter-final of the Hofmeister World Doubles, where they lost just 5 – 4 to Ray Reardon and Tony Jones.

Earlier in the season, a scene shows Picard practicing Mozart on the flute in the beginning of " A Fistful of Datas ".

Earlier in the same season, the Roosters recorded the longest winning streak of any first grade rugby league football club – 19 matches.

Earlier release plans were to postpone until Spring 2005 so that Bloodlines would not compete against a sequel to a blockbuster, with a large advertising budget and ready made loyal following during the already competitive Christmas season.

Earlier in the 1986-87 season, Walsh had scored a hat-trick in a 6-2 home win over a Norwich City side who had just returned to the First Division following for promotion but were already looking like title contenders and ultimately finished fifth.

Earlier that season, Bellotti led Oregon to a resounding 39 – 7 victory over Michigan at " The Big House ", earning the Ducks and Dixon much national attention.

Earlier in the season, he had recorded his 300th career assist and his 600th career point.

Earlier that season at 2nd-ranked Alabama, Beuerlein was on the receiving end of one of the more memorable sacks in college football history.

Earlier in the season, before the annual game against USC, played at home on October 22, Devine changed the team's jerseys from navy blue & white to kelly green & gold, which would remain for the rest of his time at the school.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

Earlier in the year, Alison Wakefield married Kevin Webster after discovering she was pregnant with his child.

Earlier in 1988-89, ( as Brigadier ) Musharraf proposed a Kargil infiltration to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto but she rebuffed the plan.

Earlier that year, she starred in HouseSitter, a screwball comedy with Steve Martin, which was a commercial and critical success.

Earlier in the documentary, Lopes mentioned that she felt the presence of a " spirit " following her, and was struck by the fact that the child killed in the accident shared her last name, even thinking that the spirit may have made a mistake by taking his life instead of hers.

Earlier in 1993, for Midge's 30th anniversary, a Midge reproduction doll was also produced, but she did not possess a reproduction of her original swimsuit or the original box.

Earlier that morning, she had reportedly called her psychiatrist saying that she felt down.

Earlier, Freeman had been so angered by Minkow's behavior that she called him a liar in open court, a rarity for a judge.

Earlier, in the spring and summer of 1968, she attended fundraisers set up by her mother to aid the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic.

Earlier, when she was 21, her fiance had been killed by Israeli security forces.

Earlier, she had written the article “ The Thought of Mao Tse-Tung ” and the book Dawn Out of China, reporting that his intellectual accomplishment was “ to change Marxism from a European to an Asiatic form ... in ways of which neither Marx nor Lenin could dream ”, which the Soviet government banned in the USSR.

Earlier, in the early 1970s, she was chairperson of the Young Women's Association and was instrumental in the setting up two of most successful hostels for working women in Delhi.

Earlier that day in a telephone interview with the journalists Paul DeMain and Harlan McKosato about the upcoming press conference, Minnie Two Shoes had said, speaking of the importance of Aquash ," Part of why she was so important is because she was very symbolic, she was a hard working woman, she dedicated her life to the movement, to righting all the injustices that she could, and to pick somebody out and launch their little cointelpro program on her to bad jacket her to the point where she ends up dead, whoever did it, let ’ s look at what the reasons are, you know, she was killed and lets look at the real reasons why it could have been any of us, it could have been me, it could have been, ya gotta look at the basically thousands of women, you gotta remember that it was mostly women in AIM, it could have been any one of us and I think that ’ s why it ’ s been so important and she was just such a good person.

Earlier, she was the Lieutenant Governor under Marc Racicot from 1997-2001.

Earlier she had nationalized the country's largest newspaper, Lake House, which has remained the government's official mouthpiece.