Leading up to this time, Assyrian armies battled against Damascus for a number of years, which greatly diminished Syria's threat to Israel.

Leading up to the Conference of the Parties ( COP 11 ) meeting on biodiversity in Hyderabad, India 2012, preparations for a World Wide Views on Biodiversity has begun, involving old and new partners and building on the experiences from the World Wide Views on Global Warming.

Leading into each break in the show, one of the hosts leads up to the network identification with a humorous take on a disgusted reaction of some usually famous person to hearing that identification.

Leading up to this period, geometers also tried to determine what constructions could be accomplished in Euclidean geometry.

Leading up to the Super Bowl and following the 34 – 0 trouncing of the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Championship, many were calling the 1968 Colts team one of the " greatest pro football teams of all time " and were favored by 18 points against their counterparts from the American Football League, the New York Jets.

Leading up to the 1998 return, an airborne observing campaign was organized to mobilize modern observing techniques by Peter Jenniskens at NASA Ames Research Center.

An enduring cultural icon, Brando became a box office star during the 1950s, during which time he racked up five Oscar nominations as Best Actor, along with three consecutive wins of the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Leading up to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, it was announced that NHL players would be eligible to play for the first time.

Leading up to the shrine on the east side are the main steps.

Leading up to the passage of this law, in 1846, supporters issued a pamphlet, probably authored by Judge John Fine, which relied on its readers ' familiarity with the United States Declaration of Independence to demand " That all are created free and equal ...", and that this idea should apply equally to the sexes.

Leading up to the Meiji Restoration, the Tokugawa Shogunate realized there was a need to prepare northern defenses against a possible Russian invasion and took over control of most of Ezochi.

Leading up to the 2008 U. S. presidential election, CNN devoted large amounts of coverage to politics, including hosting candidate debates during the Democratic and Republican primary seasons.

Leading up to the 2002 elections, he positioned his party in equidistance to the major parties and refused to commit his party to a coalition with either the Christian Democrats or the Social Democrats.

" I think it's about time Eli Siegel was moved up into the ranks of our acknowledged Leading Poets ," wrote Kenneth Rexroth, in the New York Times.

Leading up to the Civil War, DeKalb County was typical of Southern Mountain counties in that it voted against secession from the United States.

Leading up to the Civil War Nicola Marschall ( 1829-1917 ), a German-American artist, is generally credited with designing both the first official Confederate flag and the grey Confederate army uniform while a teacher at the old Marion Female Seminary.

Leading up to and during World War I, American sentiment became increasingly anti-German.

Leading up to this new school, Whitewater, Potwin, Brainerd, Elbing, Furley, Countryside, and Golden Gate schools merged to form a joint rural high school.

Leading up to this new school, Whitewater, Potwin, Brainerd, Elbing, Furley, Countryside, and Golden Gate schools merged to form a joint rural high school.

Leading up to this new school, Whitewater, Potwin, Brainerd, Elbing, Furley, Countryside, and Golden Gate schools merged to form a joint rural high school.

Leading his army back up the Euphrates, south of Circesium Philip erected a cenotaph in honor of Gordian III, but his ashes were sent ahead to Rome, where he arranged for Gordian III ’ s deification.

Leading up to the 1913 London performances, Diaghilev's authority was challenged when Monteux declared that he was the composer's representative in matters related to Rite of Spring.

Leading up to the 1990 – 91 Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein advocated that OPEC push world oil prices up, thereby helping Iraq, and other member states, service debts.

Leading motor engineer and car designer Reid Railton set up a manufacturing facility and built the well known Railton road cars at the Fairmile Works from 1933-40.

In 2006, she appeared in David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Rabbit Hole in a Manhattan Theatre Club production, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Play ).

*** Leading up to the 2006 Assembly, a church wide process of response, reflection and preparation has been initiated.

Leading members of the group include John Ashbery ( born in poetry1927 ), Frank O ' Hara ( 1926 – 1966 ), Kenneth Koch ( 1925 – 2002 ), James Schuyler ( 1923 – 1991 ), Barbara Guest ( 1920 – 2006 ), Ted Berrigan ( 1934 – 1983 ), Anne Waldman ( born in 1945 ) and Bernadette Mayer ( born in 1945 ).

In the 2006 musical, Lestat, Gabrielle was portrayed by Carolee Carmello who was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her role.

Leading his Church in communion with the uncannonical Orthodox Christian world, the Kiev-based Ukrainian Orthodox Church ; it was in communion with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, however since 2006 it is within the process of restoration into the cannon Russian Orthodox Church.

More recently, the 32nd People's Choice Awards ( broadcast in January 2006 ) included categories such as Favorite On-Screen Match-Up ( Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers ), Favorite Leading Lady ( Reese Witherspoon ), Favorite Tour ( U2 ), and an award named after a Procter & Gamble brand: Nice ' n Easy Fans Favorite Hair ( Faith Hill ).

Leading on from this, in 2006 Fielding presented and produced Ghosthunting With ..., a paranormal show for ITV2 which shows Fielding leading various celebrities around haunted locations.

He has been nominated for a BAFTA in 2005 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for The Motorcycle Diaries and, in 2006, was nominated for the Orange Rising Star award which acknowledges new talents in the acting industry.

Leading bishop is Dr. Hans-Jürgen Abromeit ( 2006 ).

Everest. In 2004, he led an expedition in Tibet called Climbing Blind project, including blind teens from the Braille Without Borders school for blind at Lhasa, Tibet. In 2006, helped to lead Global Explorers sponsored expedition, Leading the Way, to Peru.

He has won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in the play Frost / Nixon ( 2006 ), and later received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the same role in the film, Frost / Nixon ( 2008 ).

In addition to Our Iceberg is Melting ( 2006 ) and Leading Change ( 1996 ), Professor Kotter is the author of The Heart of Change ( 2002 ), John P. Kotter on What leaders Really Do ( 1999 ), Matsushita Leadership ( 1997 ) ( which won first place in the Financial Times, Booz-Allen Global Business Book Competition for biography / autobiography, Corporate Culture and Performance ( 1992 ), A Force for Change ( 1990 ), The Leadership Factor ( 1988 ), Power and Influence ( 1985 ), The General Managers ( 1982 ), and five other books published in the 1970s.

* Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role ( 1985, 1989, 2001, 2006 )

The airline won a number of awards, including Best Charter Airline 2006, World's Leading Charter Airline 2004, 2005 and 2007, Best Charter Airline 2004 and 2005 and UK Charter Airline Punctuality Awards for Summer 2002-Runner Up.

Leading up to the 2006 – 07 season, Cloutier signed a two-year, $ 6. 2 million contract extension with the Kings on September 27, 2006.

* Potter, Richard and Potter, Jan ( 2006 ) Spiritual Development for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Leading a Purpose Filled Life ISBN 0-7387-0750-3

* Ranked among the top two leading trial lawyers in New York for First Amendment Cases by Chambers USA: Leading Lawyers for Business ( 2006 )

Leading up to the game's release, Gears of War was one of the most anticipated games of 2006.

Rocky Mountaineer was awarded the " World's Leading Travel Experience by Train " in 2005, 2006 and 2007 at the World Travel Awards, has been listed among the " World's Top 25 Trains " since 2005 by The Society of International Railway Travelers, and was recognized by National Geographic Magazine as one of the " World ’ s Best Journeys " in 2007.

* Michael Rosen, “ Leading global Big Pharma companies of 2005 ”, WTN News, May 9, 2006.

*( 2006 ) What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty ISBN 0-06-084181-8

Cynthia Nixon won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her performance as Becca in the New York production, and the play was nominated for several other Tony awards.