Prior to the advent of the charismatic Rubini, every well-schooled opera singer had avoided using a conspicuous and continuous vibrato because, according to Scott, it varied the pitch of the note being sung to an unacceptable degree and it was considered to be an artificial contrivance arising from inadequate breath control.

Prior to joining the Pac-10, Scott was Chairman and CEO of the Women's Tennis Association.

Prior Lake is a city southwest of downtown Minneapolis in Scott County in the U. S. state of Minnesota.

Prior Lake is also popular with snowmobilers and can be accessed using the Scott County Snowmobile Trail and other designated trails in the winter.

Among articles included were: " The Secession Tradition in America " by Donald Livingston ; " The Ethics of Secession " by Scott Boykin ; “ Nations by Consent: Decomposing the Nation-State ” by Murray Rothbard ; " Yankee Confederates: New England Secession Movements Prior to the War Between the States " by Thomas DiLorenzo ; " Was the Union Army's Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act?

Prior to and between his first and second marriages Scott was romantically linked with several prominent film actresses, including Lupe Vélez, Sally Blane, Claire Trevor, and Dorothy Lamour.

Prior to 2006's Never Hear the End of It, Ferguson and Scott would also play electric piano on songs that called for it ; unofficial ' fifth Sloan ' Gregory Macdonald now handles all keyboard duties live.

Prior to joining MARTA, Dr. Scott served as GM / CEO of the Sacramento Regional Transit District.

Prior to Dr. Scott, MARTA's General Manager was Richard McCrillis from 2006 to 2007.

In 2004, Marina Prior and Scott Irwin starred in an Australian production of the 1999 Broadway rewrite of the show.

The show starred Lisa McCune, Marina Prior, Garry McDonald, Ian Stenlake, Shane Jacobson, Wayne Scott Kermond, and Magda Szubanski, and ran at the Princess Theatre.

Prior to that they had been reported in the religious census as part of the movement that had its roots in the several independent movements that occurred through the leadership of people such as Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell, Walter Scott, and Barton W. Stone.

Prior to breaking through the music industry, Scott worked at a variety of jobs, including a number of retail positions and stints at a construction site and an ice cream parlor.

Prior to the game, an ' anti-merger ' rally, led by Scott, was held at Hawthorn's then training ground, Glenferrie Oval.

Prior to their teens the band would only sparingly perform their own instruments and had a back-up band, but now chose to go it alone with Scott on lead guitar, Clint on bass guitar, Dave on keyboards and Bob on drums.

Prior to his death in 1976, Scott had arranged for his personal photographic collection — some 30, 000 negatives and prints — to be transferred to the Historical Office.

Prior to being elected to the Scottish Parliament, Scott was employed by Fife Council in the social work department.

Prior to the breakup, Ben McMillan and Scott McCullum had started the band Gruntruck as a side-project, and continued to perform with the band after Skin Yard's demise.

Prior to the 1977 season, Washington was traded to the Texas Rangers for second baseman Rodney Scott and left-handed pitcher Jim Umbarger.

According to Ott, the band had a total of fifteen members by the time it finally disbanded in 2000: Jack Curran, Mikey Mischief, Mark Moreno, Jean Repetto, Lucky Dog, Chris Flanagan, John Ogle, Jesse Wickman, Joe Cable, John Quintos, Scott Pierce, Jim Prior, Lisa D., Vanessa Bain and himself.

Prior to that it was known as the Scott Highway.

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community ( SMSC ) is located within parts of the cities of Prior Lake and Shakopee in Scott County, Minnesota, and was previously known as Prior Lake Indian Reservation until it was modified by the Indian Reorganization Act on November 28, 1969.

" Prior to forming with Reel Big Fish, Barrett played trombone in another ska-punk act, The Scholars, along with future Reel Big Fish bandmates Scott Klopfenstein and Grant Barry.

It is fronted in the northwest by the Lourense parishes of Frielas and Unhas, southeast by Prior Velho and east by Sacavém ; in the extreme southeast it borders Santa Maria dos Olivais, in the south Charneca ( both parishes of Lisbon ); and, finally southwest, with the Olival Basto in the municipality of Odivelas.

Prior to joining the big screen, he appeared in the London musical Chicago and fronted posters for the production shown all over the United Kingdom.

Prior to the Marian reforms ( see below ) the heavy infantry was subdivided, according to experience, into three separate lines of troops:

Prior to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish Catholics had no cemeteries of their own in which to bury their dead and, as the repressive Penal Laws of the eighteenth century placed heavy restrictions on the public performance of Catholic services, it had become normal practice for Catholics to conduct a limited version of their own funeral services in Protestant cemeteries.

Prior to the 1900s, most barns were timber framed ( also known as post and beam ) forming very strong structures to withstand storms and heavy loads of animal feed.

Prior to World War II, engine power was so meager that there were several types of bombers: light, medium, and heavy, each tuned to a particular performance and mission niche.

Prior to Perspex becoming available in 1933, windows were either safety glass, which was heavy, or cellulose nitrate ( i. e.: guncotton ) which yellowed quickly and was extremely flammable.

Prior to the locks being completed on the St. Lawrence in the late 1840s, the Rideau served as the main travel route for immigrants heading westward into Upper Canada and for heavy goods ( timber, minerals, grain ) from Canada's hinterland heading east to Montreal.

Prior to the first half of the century, most heavy work was executed by draft animals or human muscle power.

Prior to this time, power tools were metal castings that often conducted electrical sparks or current into the user as well as being very heavy.

Prior to the introduction of Schräge Musik in 1943, the Nachtjagdgeschwadern ( NJG, night fighter wings ) were simply equipped with heavy fighters fitted with radar in the nose and a combination of front-firing and defensive weapons.

Prior to joining Judas Priest in 1996, Owens was frontman of a heavy metal band called Brainicide.

Prior to the adoption of naval hammocks, sailors would often be injured or even killed as they fell off their berths or rolled on the decks on heavy seas.

Prior to the introduction of diesel-electric locomotives, Electric shunting locomotives were used to an extent in Great Britain where heavy trains needed to be started on steep gradients.

Prior to this time, anaesthetists often carried all their equipment with them, but the development of heavy, bulky cylinder storage and increasingly elaborate airway equipment meant that this was no longer practical for most circumstances.

Prior to the landings, German defensive positions were attacked by medium and heavy bombers ; the bombardment was continued by the 6 inch ( 15 cm ) and 8 inch ( 20 cm ) guns of the accompanying cruisers ,( see ' Naval support ' section below ).

Prior to his email spam ventures, Wallace had gained notoriety in other questionable marketing circles, as a heavy utilizer of junk fax marketing, a practice outlawed in the United States since 1991.

Prior to the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940, the Deuxième Bureau ( French military intelligence ) removed of heavy water from the plant in Vemork in then-neutral Norway.

Prior to battle, Azhag would lay out his plan of attack, speaking in a decidedly un-Orcy voice heavy with the weight of centuries, then bellow at his ladz to get moving.

( Prior to the drainage improvements it was not uncommon for water to make large pools on the sidelines during heavy rains ).

Prior to this, the energy represented by these events had been stored in heavy atoms, ever since the time that gravitational potentials transforming energy in the collapse of long-destroyed stars created these atoms, and in doing so, stored the energy within them.

Prior to its reconstruction, driving through was challenging and, combined with heavy traffic volume, resulted in frustrating traffic congestion, hence the name " Orange Crush.

Prior to the 2008-09 winter storm season, there was the Heavy Snow Warning, specific for when only a heavy amount of snow was expected in the warned area.

Prior to some heavy optimisation in revision 0. 27, Monotone's emphasis on correctness over optimisation was often blamed for poor initial experiences.

Prior to the release of SilverFin, the idea of a Young Bond series had not gone over too well with the fans of the more traditional Bond literature and had come under heavy fire, with some fans comparing it to an unsuccessful 1960s attempt by Bond's publishers to launch a youth-oriented line of fiction that resulted in only one book: The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ written by the pseudonymous R. D. Mascott.

Prior to the 17th Century, Highlanders had fought in tight formations, led by a heavily armoured warrior elite, that carried heavy battle-axes or two-handed broadswords known as claidheamh mor or " claymores " – meaning " great sword " in Scottish Gaelic.