Earlier models were given extra armour by the expedient of welding extra plates on.

Earlier theories of the epidemic's origin have varied.

Earlier images were much more varied.

Earlier issues were printed on card stock and designs varied.

Earlier in the decade, Congo's major employer was the state bureaucracy, which had a payroll of 80, 000, which is enormous for a country of Congo's size.

Earlier DDC implementations used simple 8-bit data offset when communicating with the EDID memory in the monitor, limiting the storage size to 2 < sup > 8 </ sup > bytes

Earlier brilliant cuts often have very large culets, while modern brilliant cut diamonds generally lack the culet facet, or it may be present in minute size.

Earlier desktop computers of approximately the same size, such as the HP 9830, did not include a CRT nor nearly as much memory.

Earlier systems, such as phonograph records, used mechanical heads known as styli to physically cut grooves in the recording medium, in a configuration ( of size, width, depth and position ) recoverable as sound.

Earlier Irish Free State boxes, such as the large A size box seen below, have the elaborate wreathed harp emblem on the door.

Earlier in 1956, the Chinese government made public the intentions of controlling the population size through education and publicity.

Earlier versions had a single upright pole at each end, while later versions often have two poles at each end, arranged rather like an ' A ' shape, in order to make access easier.

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 used to describe any five-line form, it now refers to one of several forms that are defined by specific rules and guidelines.

Earlier in the century, Norris had played on one of hockey's early powers, the Montreal HC, nicknamed the " Winged Wheelers.

Earlier in the year the band had performed at one of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics victory concerts at Whistler Medals Plaza and donated a collection of objects to the Ohio Historical Society including an energy dome, jumpsuit, stickers, and t-shirts.

Earlier writings only mention either bishops or presbyters, and give the impression that there was usually more than one bishop per congregation.

Earlier, he had come to the area as one of the builders of the C & O Railway's terminals, and had served as the first mayor of Newport News after it became an independent city in 1896.

Earlier models gave a user process a " high " and a " low " memory: addresses with a 0 top bit used one base register, and higher addresses used another.

Earlier, another Chicago Fire team had played in the short-lived World Football League for one year under the same name.

Earlier slave houses had a two-room plan, one family per room, with a single, shared doorway to the outside.

Earlier on, at the South Carolina Assembly in Charleston, he is one of the twelve out of forty to vote against a levy for the Continental Army.

Earlier in the same year, at the battle of George Square on 31 January, in Glasgow, the city's sheriff was in the process of reading the Riot Act to a crowd of 90, 000 – when the sheet of paper he was reading from was ripped out of his hands by one of the rioters.

Earlier in his career, TenNapel produced a short comic entitled They Called Him Evil, published by Mockingbird Studios in 1991, which introduced the character Evil the Cat, who later became one of the central villains in the Earthworm Jim series.

Earlier seasons allowed players to carry one luxury item with them.

Earlier temples to Monthu include one located adjacent to the Middle Kingdom fortress of Uronarti below the Second Cataract of the Nile, dating to the nineteenth century BCE.

Earlier, research proposed that increased power is related to increased rewards and leads one to approach things more frequently.

Earlier documents dated at c. 1000 – 1004 show lands in this area known as Kyningesburg were granted by Wulfric, one of King Edward's ministers, to Elfhei, another Saxon nobleman.

Earlier 10th through 12th century sources refer to " long swords " that while a common medieval term or orthography for naginata, could also simply be referring to conventional swords ; one source describes a naginata being drawn with the verb nuku, commonly associated with swords, rather than hazusu, the verb otherwise used in medieval texts for unsheathing naginata.

Earlier in Brest there was a synagogue, which was regarded as the first one in Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

" Earlier, on 12 September 1731, Rear Admiral Stewart had written to the Governor of Havana to complain of the " violence and villainies " of a Guarda Costa commander named Fandino who, " about the 20th April last sailed out of your harbor in one of those Guarda Costas, and met a ship of this island bound for England ; and after using the captain in a most barbarous inhuman manner, taking all his money, cutting off one of his ears, plundering him of those necessaries which were to carry the ship safe home ...".

Earlier scholars, such as A. Cunningham and W. W. Tarn, believed there were only one Menander and assumed that the king had changed his epithet and / or was expelled from his western dominions.

Earlier in their careers, Tarantino and Avary had planned on making an anthology movie comprising three short films ; one written and directed by Avary, one written and directed by Tarantino, and one written and directed by a third filmmaker, reportedly Adam Rifkin.

Earlier that day, Boston College football fans had seen their Sugar Bowl-bound team, undefeated and ranked number one in the nation, lose its place to their unranked rival, Holy Cross, in a crushing defeat of 55-12.