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 apologies had been offered by State and Territory governments in the period 1997 – 2001.

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 definitions of chemical quantity involved Avogadro's number, a historical term closely related to the Avogadro constant.

Previous to entering parliament she was the first woman to be elected in 1977 to the then Waipa County Council where she served as a county councillor for 8 years. She was involved in community organisations like the NZ Plunket Society, SPELD and Hamilton Speech Therapy Association.

Previous redevelopment schemes in Newark, such as the Gateway Center had all involved skyways that connected all the main office buildings to Newark Penn Station above street level, further segregating the city.

Previous cases finding such a waiver had involved express language in the Congressional statute conditioning program funds on such a waiver-but in this statute, there was no such language.

( Previous colony ships involved frozen embryos, or various forms of DNA synthesis.

Previous writers on face have treated losing face and gaining face simply as if they were opposite outcomes in a social encounter and have thus failed to notice the basic difference between two social processes that are involved.

Previous flyovers of the area revealed a number of cars derailed in various states of damage, but it is as yet unknown the amount or types of hazardous materials that are involved.

Previous flyovers of the area revealed a number of cars derailed in various states of damage, but it is as yet unknown the amount or types of hazardous materials that were involved.

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 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 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 studies had shown a connection between this form of the gene and both obsessive-compulsive disorder and autism.

Previous polling has identified support to be between 6 % and 12 % of decided voters, This system would make the number of seats attributed to the party in a " members-at-large " section of the legislature approximately equal to the percentage of the vote won by the party in separate party vote.

Previous to Light's landmark study, which was based on work by Chandrasekhar, investigators unsuccessfully attempted to use other criteria, such as specific gravity, pH, and protein content of the fluid, to differentiate between transudates and exudates.

Previous albums had a reasonably close balance of songwriting and singing duties between Matt Scannell and Keith Kane, but Everything You Want featured Scannell writing and handling lead vocals on ten of the eleven tracks.

Previous editions of Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture have had some criticism, see for example Eleusis Vs. Fester for discussion between Fester and English major Eleusis / Zwitterion.

Previous versions of precoolers such as HOTOL put the hydrogen fuel directly through the precooler, but inserting a helium cooling loop between the air and the cold fuel avoids problems with hydrogen embrittlement in the air precooler.

Previous research indicated a negative correlation between self-handicapping behaviors and boosting one ’ s self-esteem ; it was also shown that people who focus on the positive attributes of themselves are less likely to self-handicap.

Previous to the construction of the Kinleith mill and the current Kinleith Branch line, a private bush tramway operated by the Taupo Totara Timber Company, used to operate along the route of the present line along its length between Putaruru and the company's mill at Mokai, near Taupo.

Previous to 1974 local government had been divided between single-tier county boroughs ( the largest towns and cities ) and two-tier administrative counties which were subdivided into municipal boroughs and urban and rural districts.

Previous taxonomies of the Old World clade did include the close relationship between Argemonidium and Romeria, nor Argemonidium ’ s distinctness from Papaver s. s. Carolan suggest Argemonidium be elevated to genus status, with Romeria a sub-genus.

Previous biographies of La Rue place him in Siena, Italy between 1483 and 1485 ; however it has been determined that the " La Rue " in the records there was a different singer.

Previous commentators include: Barry Davies who featured between 1969 and 2004, Stuart Hall, Alan Weeks, Alan Parry, Gerald Sinstadt, Idwal Robling, Harry Carpenter, Clive Tyldesley and Jon Champion.

* Previous abdominal surgery, including previous partial gastrectomy: increased risk of organs interposed between gastric wall and abdominal wall

Previous attempts to forge a multi-racial political movement, including the electoral pact between the ethnic Fijian Fijian Political Party ( better known in Fiji by its Fijian name, Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei ) and the predominantly Indo-Fijian National Federation Party, which contested the 1999 election unsuccessfully, had been well-meant but ill-timed, Ganilau said.

Previous constituencies of the same name existed between 1295 and 1950.

Previous material stemmed, though not exclusively, from collaborations between Ivan Drever and Duncan Chisholm, as well as Drever's own compositions.

" Previous meetings between Abkhazian and Georgian officials have proceeded without incident ; a subsequent meeting date has not been announced.

Previous owners of the large factory between the southern end of Canal Street and the former Leicester – Rugby railway line were Dunmores Biscuits whose large factory chimney dominated the local landscape.

Previous to the conference, relations between the dominant Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) and its partner, the Benishangul People's Liberation Movement ( BPLM ) had grown strained, and the BPLM was ineffective due to internal factionalism.