He worked primarily as a scholar until he became Prior General of the Order in 1431.

Prior to the formation of Bill Haley and the Saddlemen, which later became The Comets, Haley released several singles with other groups.

After he completed his studies, Bishop Martin Bazan and Prior Diego d ' Achebes appointed Dominic to the cathedral chapter and he became a regular canon under the Rule of St. Augustine and the Constitutions for the cathedral church of Osma.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

Prior to the 19th century, the area which became Mali was criscrossed by trade and communication links, the most important being the Niger River, and important southern terminals of the Trans-Saharan trade routes.

Prior to the advent of the microprocessor, a computer was usually built in a card-cage case or mainframe with components connected by a backplane consisting of a set of slots themselves connected with wires ; in very old designs the wires were discrete connections between card connector pins, but printed circuit boards soon became the standard practice.

Prior to the official engagement announcement, he abandoned his Greek and Danish royal titles, converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Anglicanism, and became a naturalised British subject, adopting the surname Mountbatten from his British maternal grandparents.

Prior to 1915, purchasing associations had formed in at least 10 major cities in the country, including one of the earliest and most active groups in Buffalo, NY, founded in 1904, and the New York Association, formed in 1913, which eventually became the nucleus of the national organization.

Prior to World War I, Baedeker's guides were famous enough that baedekering became an English-language term for the process of travelling a country for the purpose of writing a travel guide or travelogue about it.

Cadfael became a man at arms ( foot soldier ) in the war waged by Henry I of England to secure the union with Normandy, and returned again to England in the service of a nobleman, Roger Mauduit, who kidnapped Prior Heribert of Shrewsbury Abbey in an attempt to foil a lawsuit.

Prior to development, the land that became Palm Beach Gardens was primarily cattle ranches and pine forests, as well as swampland further west.

Prior to the 1820s, what is now Oxford Township was known to be a hunting ground of the Nepessing Tribe of the Chippewa Indians, who inhabited large areas of what became Oakland, Lapeer and St. Clair counties.

Prior to settlement, the tract of land that became known as Rushford had been a favorite planting and camping ground for the Sioux and later Winnebago.

Prior to 1970, Indian Hill was incorporated as a village, but under Ohio law became designated as a city once its population was verified as exceeding 5, 000.

Prior to settlement by Oregon pioneers, the area which became known as West Linn was the home of ancestors of some of the present-day Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon.

Prior to the start of the Revolutionary War, the early Quaker settlers became dissatisfied with the quality of the farmland within Newberry Township and began moving out of it.

Prior to the formation of Saluda County in 1896, the town was named Redbank and was renamed to match the county it became the seat of.

Prior to the founding of the Musar movement, musar was a practice of the solitary seeker ; thanks to Salanter, it became the basis for a popular social / spiritual movement.

The Recollect friars, founded in 1588 as a reform movement of the Augustinian friars in Spain, became autonomous in 1612 with their first Prior General, Enrique de la Sagrada.

The Discalced friars became an independent religious congregation with their own Prior General in 1592, and were raised to the status of a separate mendicant Order in 1610.

I fell into commercials for financial reasons and acting became an attractive concept ..." Prior to securing an acting agent, Phoenix and his siblings had attempted to forge a career in music by playing cover songs on the streets of the Westwood district of LA, often being moved along by police because of the gathering crowds who obstructed the pavement.

Prior to the Winter War, Paasikivi became the Finnish representative in the negotiations in Moscow.

( Prior to 1988, the simulator appeared in some of the episodes, but then became a permanent fixture ).

Prior to OPIC, Connelly worked for Bechtel Corporation ; he was an executive ( 1977 ) and later a senior principal with Bechtel Investments ( 1982-1991 ) ( which later became the Fremont Group ) and the President of Bechtel Energy Resources, Inc. ( 1991-1993 ).

Prior to 1800 the majority of Maltese were engaged in agriculture or fishing, although there was significant trade.

Prior to overt participation in WWII, the US was actively engaged in convoys with the British in the North Atlantic Ocean, primarily supporting British activities in Iceland.

Prior to his demise, Hrungnir engaged in a wager with Odin in which Odin stakes his head on his horse, Sleipnir, being faster than Hrungnir's steed Gullfaxi.

Prior to the Yerkes facility opening in 1930, Yerkes was engaged in his own research with two great apes, aptly named “ Chim ” and “ Panzee ”.

Prior to her marriage to Taylor, Simon was briefly engaged to William Donaldson in the 1960s ( who jilted fiancée Sarah Miles for her ).

Prior to launching the publication, Shanken engaged in extensive market research, collecting more than 1300 four-page surveys of cigar smokers which detailed their occupation, income, net worth, travel tendencies, as well as their drinking and smoking habits.

Prior to the formation of the Respect-The Unity Coalition, headed by George Galloway and supported by the Socialist Workers Party, the CPB engaged in a major debate about whether to join an electoral alliance with Galloway and the SWP.

Prior to Septimius Severus, women who engaged in acts that brought infamia to them as slaves also suffered infamia when freed.

Prior to reaching Basra, A Squadron ( with 1BWBG ) fought in and around Az Zubayr and C Squadron was detached from the SCOTS DG BG to fight with 3 Commando Brigade ( 3 Cdo Bde ) south of Basra that included Britain's largest tank engagement since the Gulf War, when 14 Challenger 2 tanks, engaged and destroyed 14 Iraqi tanks ( the so-called ' 14 – 0 ' engagement ).

Prior to his election, some Hutton offices engaged in an aggressive cash management scheme.

Prior to embarking in June on the trek, participants engaged in a seven-month fundraising campaign for Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven.

Prior to his death, Escobar was engaged to his girlfriend of five years, Pamela Cascardo, a dentist.

Prior to the actual entrance of the United States in the World War II, Captain Isbell was actively engaged in operations vitally connected with the expansion of US bases.

Prior to 2006, the company had already undergone reorganisation, procuring also a new company ( SIA Lattelecom Technology ), whereby the change of the brand name marked the termination of said conversion process – the new brand name combined into one great whole all Groups companies that were directly engaged in providing customer services, client business process outsourcing and IT & T and content services.

Prior to his imprisonment in France, Philippe had been unofficially engaged to his first-cousin Princess Marguerite of Orléans.

Prior to the secession of the Irish Free State, the whole of Ireland engaged in the census on the same night.

Prior to introducing the equity partnership program, the RTC had engaged in outright individual and bulk sales of its asset portfolios.

Prior to the 1967 Six-Day War, the valley's Jordanian side was home to about 60, 000 people largely engaged in agriculture and pastoralism.

Prior to the formation of the team, André the Giant had been engaged in a feud with Hulk Hogan.

Prior to his academic career, he was legal counsel to the ICA Group in Boston, engaged nationally in economic and job development efforts with a focus on employee-owned businesses.

Prior to 1870, there had been only about 2000 missionaries from the United States in full-time service, roughly ten percent of whom had engaged in work among Native Americans.

Prior to Yongle's invasion of Ðại Việt in 1406, he engaged himself in further expansion into the polities of Yunnan.