Prior to the 1930s, larger scale themes and linkages between were mostly drawn by folk music scholars and collectors.

Prior to the release of the 1951 Walt Disney animated adaptation of the story, scholars observed few specific allusions to this character.

Prior to Holtzmann, most Catholic scholars held to the Augustinian hypothesis ( Matthew → Mark → Luke ) and Protestant biblical critics favored the Griesbach hypothesis ( Matthew → Luke → Mark ).

Prior to his arrest, Vang Pao was slated to have an elementary school in Madison, Wisconsin named after him, a proposal that met with opposition over Alfred W. McCoy's allegations that Vang had been involved in war crimes and drug trafficking, with Gary Yia Lee and other scholars strongly disputing his claims Vang's June 2007 arrest later led the Madison School to reopen discussion on the school's naming.

Prior to modern archaeological studies, most Biblical scholars held the opinion that the Jebusites were identical to the Hittites, which continues to be the case, though less so.

The usual way of connecting the subject and predicate of a categorical sentence as Aristotle does in On Interpretation is by using a linking verb e. g. P is S. However, in the Prior Analytics Aristotle rejects the usual form in favor of three of his inventions: 1 ) P belongs to S, 2 ) P is predicated of S and 3 ) P is said of S. Aristotle does not explain why he introduces these innovative expressions but scholars conjecture that the reason may have been that it facilitates the use of letters instead of terms avoiding the ambiguity that results in Greek when letters are used with the linking verb.

Prior to the devastating epidemics ( according to contemporary scholars Snow, Grumet, Bragdon, et al.

Prior to Jaffa, most conservative scholars, including M. E.

Prior to World War II, language scholars were concerned with these problems in learning fluent Japanese.

Prior to 1960, in order to provide matching for the minimum ( base ) allotment, State funds had to equal 1954 State funds.

Prior to meeting Mallowan, Christie had not had any extensive brushes with archaeology, but once the two married they made sure to only go to sites where they could work together.

Prior to the Akkadian period the progressive salinisation of the soils, produced by poorly drained irrigation, had been reducing yields of wheat in the southern part of the country, leading to the conversion to more salt-tolerant barley growing.

Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.

Prior to the flood, speculators had purchased the abandoned reservoir, made less than well-engineered repairs to the old dam, raised the lake level, built cottages and a clubhouse, and created the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.

Prior to creating the Asterix series, Goscinny and Uderzo had previously had success with their series Oumpah-pah, which was published in the Tintin magazine.

Prior to 2006, in common with many other Caribbean countries, Cable & Wireless ( Caribbean ) had a statutory monopoly on telephone and other electronic communications services.

Prior to the 1867 Reform Bill the working class did not possess the vote and therefore had little tangible political power.

Prior to this time, Judah had been a vassal of the Assyrian empire, but the rapid decline of Assyria after c. 630 led Josiah to assert his independence and institute a religious reform stressing loyalty to Yahweh, the national God.

Prior to the period of these scriptures, Mahāyāna metaphysics had been dominated by teachings on emptiness in the form of Madhyamaka philosophy.

Prior movements had all originated in cities which were home to at least two teams.

Prior to this, his political views had been conservative.

Prior to this event, the technique had been published in an issue of 391 in the poem by Tzara, dada manifesto on feeble love and bitter love under the sub-title, TO MAKE A DADAIST POEM

Prior to his death, he had, at his wife Plectrude's urging, designated Theudoald, his grandson by their son Grimoald, his heir in the entire realm.

Prior to the 1995 season, the Rockies acquired free-agent outfielder Larry Walker, previously of the Montreal Expos, who replaced Kingery as the 4th member of the " Blake Street Bombers "— named after the street on which the new ballpark ( Coors Field ) was located — along with Galarraga, Bichette, and third baseman Vinny Castilla, who had played sparingly with the major-league club during the previous season.

Prior to partition, both regions had cholera pathogens with similar characteristics.

Prior to the hiatus, the strip ’ s characters had aged at the tectonically slow rate standard for comic strips.

Prior to this period, the College had clung to traditional methods of instruction and was relatively poorly funded.

Prior to this assignment, no women had lived on island since those on the plantation in 1971.

Prior to this, most music heard on radio was live ; most radio stations had an orchestra or band on the payroll.

As time passed, Prior Diego sanctioned the building of a monastery for girls whose parents had sent them to the care of the Albigensians because their families were too poor to fulfill their basic needs.

" Prior to Draper, Beauchamp & Davidson had also offered a definition which includes these elements, although they offered a somewhat longer account, and one that specifically discounts fetuses in order to distinguish between abortions and euthanasia:

Prior to 1986, the Australian banks organized a widespread uniform credit card, called Bankcard, which had been in existence since 1974.

Prior to 1980, people seldom used the term " The West Island ".

Prior to 1959, cranberries were seldom consumed except during Thanksgiving and Christmas, and cranberry juice was available, but not popular.

* On Aristotle's Prior Analytics ( written by John Philoponus )

Prior to this, Belarusian had also been written in the Belarusian Latin alphabet ( Łacinka / Лацінка ) and the Belarusian Arabic alphabet.

Prior to the 15th century English speech in Scotland was known as " English " ( written Ynglis or Inglis at the time ), whereas " Scottish " ( Scottis ) referred to Gaelic.

Prior to 1877, the name was spelled Frederiksstad, then from 1877 – 1888 it was written as Fredriksstad, and finally since 1889 it has been spelled in its current form: Fredrikstad.

Prior to its publication, Sassoon's reputation rested entirely on his poetry, mostly written during and about World War One.

Prior to Fallen Angel moving to another company, Lee was written in a manner such that she could have been Linda.

Prior to this episode, Rod Serling had written an episode called " The Happy Place " as the pilot for his new series.

Prior to this literary assault Barnes had written a sonnet for Harvey's anti-Nashe pamphlet Pierces Supererogation ( 1593 ), in which he labelled Nashe a confidence trickster, a liar, a viper, a laughing stock and mere " worthless matter " who should be flattered that Harvey even deigned to insult him.

Prior to 1889, the name was written " Trygstad ".

Prior to 1889, the name was written " Skibtvet ".

Prior to 1921, the name was written " Raade ".

Prior to 1921, the name was written " Vaaler ".

Prior to 1889 the name was written " Haabøl ".

Prior to 1889, the name was written " Fron ".

Prior to 1918, the name was written " Urskog ".

Prior to 1921, the name was written " Enebak ".

Prior to 1918, the name was written " Nittedalen ".

Prior to 1918, the name was written Alten.

Prior to 1918, the name was written Maasø.

Prior to 1918, the name was written " Tanen ".

) Prior to 1921, the name was written " Aamot ".

) Prior to 1918, the name was written " Tønset " ( pronounced Teunset, the diphthong equivalent to that in the ).

Prior to 1889, the name was written " Skiaker ", then from 1889-1910 it was spelled " Skiaaker ", from 1911-1920 it was " Skjaak ", and since 1921 it has been written in its present form, " Skjåk ".

Prior to 1918, the name was written " Vaage ".