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 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 releases had taken place under an earlier version of the APSL that did not meet the FSF's definition of free software, although it met the requirements of the Open Source Definition.

Previous promises by fab 7 management such as challenge 750 in 2008 whereupon the fab had to reduce its cost per wafer from $ 1000 to $ 750 were indeed achieved by fab 7 with a concluding promise that if this was met then a large investment would be accorded to fab 7.

Previous to being cast in the film, he had met Lynch several times at Hollywood eatery Musso & Frank Grill that they both frequented.

Previous landings met little or no initial resistance.

Previous plans to build a marina in the 1990s were met with opposition from locals.

Previous minor league and junior ventures in Toronto had not met with success, and there was a general feeling that Toronto fans were only interested in the NHL and not any other levels of hockey.

Previous genetic studies of African savanna ungulates revealed the presence of a long-standing Pleistocene refugium in east and South Africa, which also includes the giant eland.

Previous palaeo-artists had often produced speculative works reflecting 19th century views of large dinosaurs as lethargic reptiles akin to giant lizards with sprawling limbs, but Burian convincingly painted them as active animals with parasagittal ( mammal or bird-like ) limb-movement and musculature.

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 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 abnormality of glucose tolerance ( PrevAGT ) – A term for people who have had above-normal levels of blood glucose ( sugar ) when tested for diabetes in the past but who show as normal on a current test.

Previous CEOs included David Levin, who left in 2005 to head United Business Media PLC, and the founding CEO, Colly Myers, who left the company in 2002 to found IssueBits, the company behind SMS information service Any Question Answered ( AQA ).

Previous record holders include Gibson, Titan and George however the current record holder is a black Great Dane named Zeus who stands at the shoulder.

Previous commissioners include Republicans Mary Walker, who was forced to resign after using millions of public dollars to benefit her family business ; Scott Croswell, the owner of Croswell Bus Company ; and Archie Wilson, who resigned after illegal drug use and relations with a prostitute in northern Kentucky.

Previous to Professor Johnson, Roger Parish, served as interim Vice-Chancellor for a few months, and Brian Stoddart, who took up the position in December 2005 ( ratified 6 February 2006 ) after previous incumbent, Michael Osborne, resigned following allegations about extensive overseas travel.

Previous owners were the Lomax family who bought the house in 1666 and who lived there until 1854 when Joshua Lomax sold it to Henry Hayman Toulmin, a wealthy ship owner and High Sheriff of Hertfordshire and mayor of St Albans.

Previous government-imposed limits on who can have stations and who can't would be removed, and everyone would be given equal opportunity to use the airwaves for their own radio station, television station, or even broadcast their own website.

Previous to Wagner, others who had expressed ideas about union of the arts, which was a familiar topic among German Romantics, as evidenced by the title of Trahndorff's essay, in which the word first occurred, " Aesthetics, or Theory of Philosophy of Art ".

Previous MPs for Blackburn include former Labour cabinet minister Barbara Castle, who represented the town in Westminster from 1945 to 1979.

Previous head coaches include Gene Nudo, Todd Shell and former Dallas Cowboys and Arizona State University quarterback, and punter, Danny White, who led the Rattlers to their ArenaBowl championships and was named 1993 AFL Coach of the Year.

Previous reviewers include the late Craig Hinton ( who went on to write Doctor Who novels ), and Gary Russell, who subsequently became the magazine's editor.

Previous to this, on 18 March, he had left Edinburgh at the head of a company of fifty dragoons, who were strongly attached to his person.

Previous NCFL members include Wick Academy and Fort William who both left to join the Highland Football League and the reserve teams of the Scottish Football League clubs Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County.

Previous to those marriages she had been an Aztec princess who owned nothing except her distinguished name.