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 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.

Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People ( 1830, Louvre ), a painting created at a time where old and modern political philosophies came into violent conflict. During the Enlightenment period, new theories about what the human was and is and about the definition of reality and the way it was perceived, along with the discovery of other societies in the Americas, and the changing needs of political societies ( especially in the wake of the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the French Revolution ) led to new questions and insights by such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu and John Locke.

* Leading Civil Liberties Organizations in the United States

* Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Leading up to the Civil War, Brown, a state senator again from 1858 to 1860, counseled in favor of North Carolina's remaining in the Union.

Leading up to the English Civil War, Chesterfield, was summoned to Parliament in 1640 and took the side of King Charles I in the threatening conflict.

* June – Eighty Years ' War – Leading a Dutch army, Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange captures in short succession the cities of Venlo, Roermond and Sittard, before besieging the city of Maastricht.

** Thirty Years ' War: Leading an army of 13. 000, king Gustav Adolf of Sweden enter the Thirty Years ' War on protestant side by making landfall at Peenemünde, Pomerania.

* Leading Light Communist Organization -- for Global People's War

Leading France for most of the final year of World War I, he was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference in the aftermath of the war.

He joined the Royal Air Force during World War II, qualifying as a wireless operator with the rank of Leading Aircraftman.

Leading these calls were the officers of the Russian Army, Kornilov amongst them, who feared that ill discipline amongst their troops was responsible for the continued poor performance of the army during the First World War.

Leading up to the fight, Ali ( who had denounced the Vietnam War ) had refused induction into the U. S. Army in 1967, leading to his being stripped of his title and barred from fighting for nearly four of his peak years as a fighter.

Leading the generation of Young Turks who revitalized the Sierra Club after World War II were attorneys Richard Leonard and Bestor Robinson, nature photographer Ansel Adams, and David Brower.

Leading up to World War I, the decorative arts, including miniature, watercolour painting, and functional objects such as vases, became more prominent in the Australian arts scene.

Leading banker Walter Leaf described these Treasury notes as " essentially a War Loan free of interest, for an unlimited period, and as such was a highly profitable expedient from the point of view of the Government ".

Leading figures in the colony such as former royal governors Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward as well as John Brown, Nicholas Brown, William Ellery, the Reverend James Manning, and the Reverend Ezra Stiles who had played an influential role in founding Brown University in Providence in 1764 as a sanctuary for religious and intellectual freedom were involved only twelve years later in the 1776 launch of the American Revolutionary War which delivered American independence from the British Empire.

Leading up to World War I, much of the art world was under the influence of Futurism and Expressionism.

# Leading By Example – Lt. Col. Mehra 1965 Indo Pak War

# Leading By Example – Lieutanant Kishen Singh Rathore 1947 – 48 Indo-Pakistan War

Leading up to the First World War he argued that Britain should adopt a more sympathetic approach towards Germany, including naval disarmament.

" George F. Kennan Dies at 101 ; Leading Strategist of Cold War ".

Leading members included Jim Jepps ( later a Green Party activist ), Declan O ’ Neill, Andy Newman ( secretary of Swindon Stop the War, trade unionist and blogger ), John Wight, Matthew Caygill, John Nicholson, Martin Wicks ( of Swindon Trades Council ), Pete Green, Nick Bird, Salman Shaheen ( journalist, and co-editor of Third Estate blog ), Reuben Rosenberg ( journalist, and co-editor of Third Estate blog ) and Tawfiq Chahboune.

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