Prior to 1983, the town was in an eponymous seat of its own.

Prior to 1983, the Reuben Awards Dinner was held in New York City, usually at the Plaza Hotel.

Prior to 1983 it was known as the Bellanca Aircraft Company.

Prior to the recording of their fourth album Burning from the Inside ( 1983 ) Peter Murphy was stricken with pneumonia, which prevented him from contributing much to the album.

Prior to the Code of Canon Law of 1983, the Catholic Church expected in rare cases ( known as excommunication vitandi ) the faithful to shun an excommunicated member in secular matters.

Prior to serving as Governor, Davis served as Chief of Staff to Governor Jerry Brown ( 1975 – 1981 ), a California State Assemblyman ( 1983 – 1987 ), California State Controller ( 1987 – 1995 ) and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California ( 1995 – 1999 ).

Prior to 1983, canon law required banns to be announced, or " asked ", in the home parishes of both parties on three Sundays or Holy Days of Obligation prior to the marriage.

Prior to 1983, the town was known as Layopolis, while its post office was known as Sand Fork.

Prior to this, the previous death of a participant was in 1983 in Torredembarra.

Prior to 1983, the day was celebrated as Svenska flaggans dag ( Swedish flag day ).

Prior to 1983 Skipton had its own eponymous constituency.

After the 1983 election Thatcher moved Hurd to the Home Office, but just over a year later he was promoted to Cabinet rank, succeeding James Prior as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Prior to the start of the 1983 season, the Phillies acquired Al Holland from the San Francisco Giants to assume the closer role.

Prior to becoming a rental property owner and manager, Blackwood was an educator and school administrator from 1965 to 1983.

Prior to its launch on 17 January 1983, BBC regional radio broadcasting for Cornwall amounted to the breakfast show ' Morning Sou ' West ' on the AM frequencies of Radio 4 in Devon and Cornwall.

Prior to 1983 the town formed part of the Consett constituency ( now part of North West Durham ).

Prior to that he was president of the Trans-European Division from 1983 to 1995.

Needham was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Prior, between 1983 and 1984, and to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Patrick Jenkin, between 1984 and 1985.

Prior to the full effects of the crash, Vid Kidz developed an unofficial sequel ( Blaster ) in 1983.

Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 2010 the Northern Ireland Boundary Commission proposed expanding Belfast East further into Castlereagh, taking in areas currently contained in Strangford, however almost all of these areas were part of Belfast East until 1983.

Prior to the 1997 general election, Beeston was part of the Morley and Leeds South constituency, represented from its creation in 1983 to 1992 by Merlyn Rees and from 1992 to 1997 by John Gunnell.

Prior to the shooting of the movie, later in 1983, Vanity abruptly decided to leave the Prince camp and relinquish her role in the film.

Prior commitments brought the band back to the UK in the summer of 1983, including a July charity gig playing in front of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales at the Aston Villa ground at Villa Park.

Prior to 1983 the CSP fleet consisted of Dodges and Plymouths, also white, with no striping and the State Police shoulder patch as the door insignia.

Prior to landing all loose items, trays and rubbish must be collected and secured along with service and galley equipment.

Prior to the advent of the grain elevator, grain was usually handled in bags rather than in bulk ( large quantities of loose grain ).

In the offseason, the Cubs reported that Prior suffered from a " loose shoulder " which leads to injuries and means he has to do more conditioning work.

Prior to modern settlement in villages, the nomadic indigenous peoples of Ethiopia provided easy hunting grounds for the bushcrow as they left loose, dung-covered soil behind as they moved their cattle.

Prior to the establishment of the Liberal Party, MPs were all independent, although often grouped themselves into loose factions.

Prior to Wakefield their role was mainly static — pushing in the set scrum and winning the ball in loose scrums ( or rucks, as they later became ).

Prior to the APFA, there were several other loose, professional organizations ; most of the APFA teams were from either the Ohio League or the New York Pro Football League.

Wanting to keep the ' APU ' abbreviation, a suggestion put forward by the governors was ' Anglia Prior University ' ( after a former Chancellor ), but the Governors decided to keep ' polytechnic ' in the title.

Prior to Young's arrival on the forward base called Hancock Station, Honor had become romantically entangled with his former executive officer stationed there as engineering staff and whom Young blamed in part for troubles he'd experienced after trying to stick it to Honor in the first book.

Prior to the attack, the guns were moved approximately 1 mile away ; however, the concrete fortifications were intact, and would still present a major threat to the landings if they were occupied by artillery forward observers.

Prior to its launch aboard Endeavour, conical Pressurized Mating Adapters ( PMAs ) were attached to the aft and forward berthing mechanisms of Unity.

Prior to the brawl, Everblades forward Greg Hornby checked Greenville's Vladimir Gusev hard into the boards behind the net, causing Gusev to leave the game injured.

Prior to that, he had played as a forward with amateur team FK Pirmasens.

Prior to coaching the Penguins, he played as a forward in the NHL and coached in the American Hockey League ( AHL ).

Prior to the 2006 MLS season, the two clubs swapped players in a trade, exchanging forward Jeff Cunningham and midfielder Clint Mathis.

Prior to that date Freud had freely acknowledged his debt to Janet, particularly in his work with Josef Breuer, writing for example of " the theory of hysterical phenomena first put forward by P. Janet and elaborated by Breuer and myself ", and stating further that " we followed his example when we took the splitting of the mind and dissociation of the personality as the centre of our position "-although he was also careful to point out where " the difference lies between our view and Janet's ".

Prior to 1954 I imagine that a majority of Southerners would have voted against the Confederacy.

Prior to this, the monastery would be a mere priory, headed by a prior who acts as superior but without the same degree of legal authority that an abbot has.

Prior to the bridge, travellers and businessmen would use an inter-island ferry to commute between Fidalgo and Whidbey islands.

Prior to the 1906 separation, congregations would typically be named " Disciples of Christ ," " Christian Church ," and " Church of Christ.

Prior to the modern proliferation of environmental regulation, the doctrines of nuisance ( public or private ), trespass, negligence, and strict liability apportioned harm and assigned liability for activities that today would be considered pollution and likely governed by regulatory regimes.

: Prior to the 19th century, Otomo was understood to have been a mere interloper, a pretender, an anomaly ; and therefore, if that commonly-accepted understanding were to have been valid, then it would have followed:

: Prior to the 19th century, Otomo was understood to have been a mere interloper, a pretender, an anomaly ; and therefore, if that commonly-accepted understanding were to have been valid, then it would have followed:

: Prior to the 19th century, Otomo was understood to have been a mere interloper, a pretender, an anomaly ; and therefore, if that commonly-accepted understanding were to have been valid, then it would have followed:

Prior to the late 18th century, diners who wished to " dine out " would visit their local guild member's kitchen and have their meal prepared for them.

Prior to the feast, Hengist enjoined his daughter to serve the guests plenty of wine and ale so that they would get very intoxicated.

Prior to the 2012 season, new Jaguars owner Shahid Khan announced that the team would once again use a black jersey, something they had not done since 2007.

Prior to that his mother tutored him and he had learned, virtually by heart, a book called the Child's Guide to Knowledge, a popular book of the day — even as an adult he would quote from it.

Prior to 2006, service departments would review older service records, service histories, and all available records to determine if a veteran authorized a retroactive Purple Heart.

Prior to arriving at Montreal, Saladin withdrew, realizing that if he met Nur ad-Din at Shaubak, he would be refused return to Egypt because of Nur ad-Din's reluctance to consolidate such massive territorial control to Saladin.

Prior to his graduation at the top of his class, Adorno was already swept up by the revolutionary mood of the time, as is evidenced by his reading of Georg Lukacs's The Theory of the Novel that year, as well as by his fascination with Ernst Bloch's The Spirit of Utopia, of which he would later write:

Prior to 2012, the two losers of the knock-out rounds would race for the Bronze Medal ; this change was instituted to encourage performance from all qualifying teams since all would have a chance to race for a medal depending on their performance.

Prior to vaccination with cowpox, the only known protection against smallpox was inoculation or variolation ( Variola-the Smallpox viruses ) where a small amount of live smallpox virus was administered to the patient ; this carried the serious risk that the patient would be killed or seriously ill.

Prior to Return to Flight, NASA Administrator Sean O ' Keefe declared that all future flights of the shuttle would go to the ISS, precluding the possibility of executing the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission which had been scheduled before the Columbia accident, despite the fact that millions of dollars worth of upgrade equipment for Hubble were ready and waiting in NASA warehouses.

Prior to the onset of ' no-fault ' statutes, a party would have to prove a ground, typically ' desertion ,' ' abandonment ,' ' cruelty ,' or ' adultery.

Prior to the wide availability of steel, rocks of iron pyrite would be used along with the flint, in a similar ( but more time-consuming ) way.

Prior to this time, lobster was considered a mark of poverty or as a food for indentured servants or lower members of society in Maine, Massachusetts and the Canadian Maritimes, and servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice per week.

Prior to Marx, economists noted that the problem with using the " quantity of labour " to establish the value of commodities was that the time spent by an unskilled worker would be longer than the time spent on the same commodity by a skilled worker.

Prior to the IEEE standard, programmers often used a special value ( such as − 99999999 ) to represent undefined or missing values, but there was no guarantee that they would be handled consistently or correctly.

Prior to highly mechanized container transfers, crews of 20-22 longshoremen would pack individual cargoes into the hold of a ship.