Prior to 1973, Conservative approaches to change were generally on an individual, case-by-case basis.

Prior to the release of this tape, President Nixon had denied political motivations in his instructions to the CIA, and claimed he had no knowledge prior to March 21, 1973 of any involvement by senior campaign officials such as John Mitchell.

Prior to the 1973 – 74 NHL season, Henderson spoke to the John Bassett, owner of the World Hockey Association ( WHA )' s Toronto Toros.

Prior to 1973, Marquette had two hospitals: St. Mary's Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital.

Prior to STS-9, scientist-astronaut Garriott had spent 56 days in orbit in 1973 aboard Skylab.

Prior to the creation of the Landsting, he represented Greenland in the Parliament of Denmark from 1973, a position he regained in 2001 and still holds.

Prior to the acquisition in 1973, the building was formerly a shoe factory.

Prior to the launch of Major League Soccer in 1996, teams from Los Angeles played in the Western American Soccer League, the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League / A-League, winning ten league championships ( 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1974, 1976 ), seven Lamar Hunt US Open Cups ( 1958, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 ), four regional championships ( 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 ) and one international championship ( 1975 ).

Prior to the 1973 Rose Bowl, Hayes shoved a camera into the face of a news photographer ; Hayes was suspended for three games, fined $ 2, 000, and left California with a subpoena.

Prior to the oil crisis of 1973, the members of the Seven Sisters controlled around 85 % of the world's petroleum reserves, but in recent decades the dominance of the companies and their successors has declined as a result of the increasing influence of the OPEC cartel and state-owned oil companies in emerging-market economies.

Prior to the 1985 election, over a period of 6 years, Gen. Zia-ul-Haq had already made numerous amendments to the Constitution of 1973 through various Constitution Amendment Orders, the most significant being the Revival of Constitution of 1973 Order ( President's Order No. 14 of 1985 ).

Prior to its opening in 1973 the state of Arkansas recognized the potential of the project and folded the center into the state park system and provided additional funding.

Prior to 1973 the major revolutionary groups were the Peronist Armed Forces ( Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas, FAP ), the Marxist-Leninist-Peronist The Revolutionary Armed Forces ( Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias or FAR ) and the Marxist-Leninist Armed Forces of Liberation ( Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación or FAL ).

Prior to 1973, four regional bowl games were played in order to provide postseason action for what was then called the NCAA College Division and a poll determined the final champion.

Prior to current president David R. Hopkins ' appointment, Wright State University had five other presidents: Brage Golding ( 1966 – 1973 ); Robert J. Kegerreis ( 1973 – 1985 ); Paige E. Mulhollan ( 1985 – 1994 ); Harley E. Flack ( 1994 – 1998 ); and Kim Goldenberg ( 1998 – 2006 ).

Prior to fetal alcohol syndrome being specifically identified and named in 1973, a few studies had noted differences between the children of mothers who used alcohol during pregnancy or breast-feeding and those who did not, but identified alcohol use as a possible contributing factor rather than heredity.

Prior to the 1973 elections, it joined the Likud and won 39 seats.

Prior to 1973, the army ’ s Fernspäher ( Long-Distance Reconnaissance ), the navy ’ s Kampfschwimmer ( Combat Swimmers /" Frogmen "), and ( until 1989 ) the Nuclear Weapons Protection Platoons-Sonderwaffenbegleitkompanien were the only military units comparable to anything that other nations may have seen as dedicated Special Forces units.

Prior to the ACT gaining self-government in 1989, ACT and NT casual Senate vacancies were the subject of a different law: section 9 of the Senate ( Representation of Territories ) Act 1973, as amended by the Senate ( Representation of Territories ) Amendment Act 1980.

Prior to 1973, many theorists suspected that field theory was fundamentally inconsistent because the interactions become infinitely strong at short distances.

Prior to his cabinet position, Cisneros served four terms as the second Hispanic mayor of a major U. S. city, ( the first being Alfonso Cervantes of St. Louis, Missouri 1965 – 1973 ) his hometown of San Antonio, Texas.

Prior to 1973, he was singing and playing a 12 string guitar, and occasionally supported Stack Waddy in Manchester, from where he later moved to London in order to escape what he saw as a lack of musical stimulus.

During the Grunwick dispute — where workers struck over pay, working conditions and the owner George Ward's refusal to recognise their trade union — there was a split in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet between the conciliatory approach of Jim Prior, the Shadow Employment Secretary, and Keith Joseph.

Tebbit was accused of comparing Prior to Laval and at that year's Conservative Party conference Tebbit attempted to avoid personalising the issue, and openly splitting the party, without retracting what he had said.

Prior to entering provincial politics, Klein considered himself a Liberal Party supporter, although he did support the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Brian Mulroney in the 1988 federal election .< ref >

Prior to 1984, Canada was seen as having a dominant-party system led by the Liberal Party while Progressive Conservative governments therefore were considered by many of these pundits as caretaker governments, doomed to fall once the collective mood of the electorate shifted and the federal Liberal Party eventually came back to power.

Prior to defecting, Jackson had indicated he would not stand in the forthcoming general election, following Iain Duncan-Smith's election as Conservative Leader, and he duly stepped down in April 2005.

He had a large impact on the Conservative manifesto for the 1979 election, although frequently a compromise had to be reached with Heath's more moderate supporters such as James Prior.

Prior to this, the only Tory / Conservative party in Scotland was the official Conservative Party, which had never achieved parity with the dominant Whig and Scottish Liberal Party ascendancy since the election reforms of 1832.

Prior to his election to Speaker he was a member of the Conservative Party.

Prior to 1970, Cormack was a member of the Bow Group and the Conservative Monday Club, resigning from both at the end of 1971.

He was finally elected in 2001, at the third attempt, narrowly defeating the incumbent Conservative MP David Prior by 483 votes.

Prior to the 1997 general election, with polls predicting that the Conservatives had no chance of retaining the Blackpool South seat, Hawkins applied and was selected to contest the newly-created constituency of Surrey Heath, which was predicted to be one of the safest Conservative seats in the country.

Prior to his election in 1997, Bob served as Chairman of the Conservative Foreign Affairs Forum ( 1986-8 ) and Chairman of the Conservative Group for Europe ( 1992-5 ).

Prior to her appointment to the House of Lords, Lady Anelay held a number of senior posts in the Conservative Party organisation.

Prior to 1942, it was known as the Conservative Party of Saskatchewan.

Prior to his resignation, Kingsley and the ruling Conservative party disagreed over whether fees paid to attend political conventions should be counted as political donations.

* David Prior ( UK politician ) ( born 1954 ), British Conservative Party Member of Parliament 1997 – 2001

Prior to the 1925 provincial election, he was asked to become leader of the Nova Scotia Conservative Party after the leader of the party, W. L. Hall, was assaulted on the waterfront.

In 1888, Prior won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative.

Prior to 1990, the ward had a strong tendency towards the Conservative Party.

Prior to entering federal politics he was a provincial politician serving in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2005 and a cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves serving as the Minister for Children, Community and Social Services, Energy and Francophone Affairs in addition to being the Government's Chief Whip.

Prior to the 1970 general election, the Conservative Party compiled a manifesto that highlighted free-market economic policies.