Previous to the war, the city's civilian population was about 300, 000, but before it was over, most of the populace had sought refuge elsewhere in Iran.

Previous game consoles sometimes had a difficult time replicating the arcade experience in home versions of popular arcade games.

Previous prophets had used " Israel " to mean the northern kingdom and its tribes ; when Ezekiel speaks of Israel he is addressing the deported remnant of Judah.

Previous political resistance to privatization had stalled liberalization efforts.

Previous Holy Roman Emperors had thought it their right, granted by God, to name the Pope, as well as other Church officials, such as bishops.

Previous to this relationship, Hall had not lived publicly in a lesbian relationship.

Previous editions had been divided into verses, however, the early versifications generally followed the paragraph structure of the original text.

Previous to the 1960 change, the ' Improved Lunar Ephemeris ' had already been made available in terms of ephemeris time for the years 1952-1959 ( computed by W J Eckert from Brown's theory with modifications recommended by Clemence ( 1948 )).

Previous split-cycle engines have had two major problems-poor breathing ( volumetric efficiency ) and low thermal efficiency.

Previous U. S. administrations had offered to divide the region along the 49th parallel, which was not acceptable to Britain, as they had commercial interests along the Columbia River.

Previous charts had differed on the location.

Previous deputies had addressed the king on their bent knees, whereas the representatives of the Catholics had been permitted to stand.

Previous successions had involved strife between various rígdomna-men of royal blood.

Previous organizations such as the Mattachine Society, the Daughters of Bilitis, and various homophile groups had masked their purpose by deliberately choosing obscure names.

Previous motorcycle production at Sachsenring had been under the aegis of AWZ ( Auto-Werke Zwickau ).

Previous fantasy miniature wargames had been written, but this was the first one published.

( Previous halfpennies had been pennies cut in half )

Previous to this posting, he had been the military commander in Dalmatia.

Previous telegraph lines were overland or shorter, hence had less delay and the need for extra inductance was not so great.

Previous films about T. E. Lawrence had been planned but had not been made.

Previous wars had seen France lose most of its colonial empire.

Previous presentations have been on French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German and Japanese.

Previous to this time, this area would have been referred to as physiological chemistry.

Previous radio flagships for the Orioles have been WCBM from 1954 to 1956, and again for the 1987 season ; and the now-defunct WFBR from 1979 through 1986.

Previous darknets, such as WASTE, have been limited to relatively small disconnected networks.

Previous Prosecutors have been Ramón Escovar Salom of Venezuela ( 1993 – 1994 ), Richard Goldstone of South Africa ( 1994 – 1996 ), Louise Arbour of Canada ( 1996 – 1999 ), Eric Östberg of Sweden, and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland ( 1999 – 2007 ), who until 2003, simultaneously served as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where she led the OTP since 1999.

Previous dating of some Kiore ( Polynesian rat ) bones at 50-150 CE has now been shown to have been unreliable ; new samples of bone ( and now also of unequivocally rat-gnawed woody seed cases ) match the 1280 CE date of the earliest archaeological sites and the beginning of sustained, anthropogenic deforestation.

Previous Speakers have been minority leaders ( when the majority party changes, as they are already the House party leader, and as the minority leader is usually their party's nominee for speaker ), or majority leaders ( upon departure of the current speaker in the majority party ), assuming that the party leadership hierarchy is followed.

Previous to Kodak's announcement, the stock had been supplied by third-party vendors such as Pro8mm and Spectra Film and Video in the United States, and Witter Kinotechnik in Germany.

Previous studies have determined the structure of the airport and possible airport sites have been narrowed down to two sites-one located just south of Gaffney and one located outside of Blacksburg.

Previous fossil-based hypotheses that whales were directly descended from mesonychids have been largely overturned.

Previous trips have been Orlando, Florida and San Antonio, Texas.

Previous collections of cases had been made by Dr Ernesto Bozzano ( Italy ) and Dr. Robert Crookall ( UK ).

Previous to this, he had been vice president of the Santa Fe Railroad.

Previous to the establishment, the area that was to become the town had also been called German Flatts.

Previous attempts at waterjet propulsion had very short lifetimes, generally due to the inefficient design of the units and the fact that they offered few advantages over conventional propellers.

Previous efforts included 1977 ’ s QUBE ( a service offered by Warner Amex in Dallas, Pittsburgh and Columbus, OH ); as well as the 1950s children television show ‘’ Winky Dink and You ’’, which prompted interactivity through the use of plastics ‘ Magic Screens ’ that parents would place on the actual television display so kids could draw on them.

Previous Roland drum machines had offered only a selection of preset rhythms.

Previous Motor City Online users were offered access to The Sims Online, Ultima Online, or Earth & Beyond.

Previous RF adapters required the user to slide a switch on the adapter by hand.

Previous styles have included a series of fictional flags set to music between 1997 and 1999 before the major relaunch, incorporating the new contemporary music composed by David Lowe, and graphics developed by Lambie-Nairn.

Previous releases were identified only by the release number prefixed by " 4D1 -", e. g. " 4D1-2. 2 ".

Previous attempts by the U. S. Military to replace the M16 were unsuccessful or only supplemented it.

Previous attempts by Valve Software with the Half-Life series, Ritual Entertainment with SiN Episodes and Telltale Games themselves with Bone were for a variety of reasons not considered successful implementations of the distribution model.

Previous governors were appointed by the President of the United States.

Previous to this the record was held in West Virginia, USA, by New Zealander Chris Allum, who bungee jumped 823 ft ( 251m ) from the New River Gorge Bridge on " Bridge Day " 1992 to set a world ’ s record for the longest bungee jump from a fixed structure.

Previous logic had dealt with the logical constants and, or, if ... then ..., not, and some and all, but iterations of these operations, especially " some " and " all ", were little understood: even the distinction between a pair of sentences like " every boy loves some girl " and " some girl is loved by every boy " was able to be represented only very artificially, whereas Frege's formalism had no difficulty expressing the different readings of " every boy loves some girl who loves some boy who loves some girl " and similar sentences, in complete parallel with his treatment of, say, " every boy is foolish ".

* Previous writings by Newton, including Quaestiones quadem philosophicae, De motu corporum in gyrum

* Previous DTM ( 1984 – 1994 ) then turned to ITCC by fia in 1995, based in heavily modifield cars, began to be too expensive and due to retilrement from Opel and Alfa Romeo the ITCC series were cancelled in 1996.

In later life, Heath's peculiar accent – with its " strangulated " vowel sounds, combined with his non-Standard pronunciation of " l " as " w " and " out " as " eout " – was satirised by the Monty Python's Flying Circus in the audio sketch " Teach Yourself Heath " ( originally recorded for their 1972 LP Monty Python's Previous Record but not released at the time ).

Previous definitions of " pseudohermaphroditism " relied on perceived inconsistencies between the internal and external organs ; the " true " sex of an individual was determined by the internal organs, and the external organs determined the " perceived " sex of an individual.

Previous to Solon's reforms, the Athenian state was administered by nine archons appointed or elected annually by the Areopagus on the basis of noble birth and wealth.

Previous Belgian kings had taken the royal accession oath only in French ; Albert innovated by taking it in Dutch as well.

Previous locomotive boilers consisted of a single pipe surrounded by water ( though the Lancashire Witch did have twin flues ).

Previous agrarian law specified that no citizen would be allowed to possess more than 500 jugera ( that is, approximately 125 hectares ) of the ager publica and any land that they occupied above this limit would be confiscated by the state.