Prior to his reign, he had twice incurred a sentence of deprivation of orders as a subdeacon and as a priest.

Prior to his short papacy, he had been a Canon Lawyer, diplomat, and chief administrator during the reign of Pope Gregory XIV ( 1590 – 1591 ).

Prior to Khosrau's reign, much like other aspects of the empire, the military was dependent on the feudal lords of the great families to provide soldiers and cavalry.

Prior to the reign of King Mohammed VI, the Moroccan monarchy had no such title.

: Prior to Anawrahta, of all the early Pagan kings, only Nyaung-u Sawrahan's reign can be verified independently by stone inscriptions.

Prior to this reign, WCW split their recognition of a World Heavyweight Champion from the NWA, and Flair was subsequently recognized as the first WCW World Heavyweight Champion, while still being recognized as NWA World Champion.

Prior to that, Halych-Volhynia cut a swathe as a mighty principality under the reign of Roman the Great in 1170 – 1205.

Prior to his reign, Shoshenq I had been the Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Army, and chief advisor to his predecessor Psusennes II, as well as the father-in-law of Psusennes ' daughter Maatkare.

Prior to the title reign with Barend, he was frequently a tag partner with Bob Orton, grandfather of Randy Orton.

Prior to his rule, he was mentioned in two charters from 824 as a dux under Beornwulf, also the Fitzwilliam Museum hold a coin minted during Ludeca's reign, It is thought the silver penny was minted at Ipswich and the moneyer's name was Wærbeald.

During the mediaeval period, the church " changed hands " several times, revenues being received by the Prior of Bermondsey in the 12th century, and then by the Hospital of the Holy Ghost in Rome from the early 13th ; the turbulent reign of Richard II saw the church being seized by the king, eventually coming under the control of William of Wykeham's New College, Oxford in 1399.

Prior to his reign, Morocco had experienced 30 years of internecine battles, instability and turmoil.

Prior to becoming a ruler of Duklja he was crowned Bulgarian Emperor by name Petar III ( Петър III ) in 1072 after the Bulgarian nobility in Skopje revolted against the Byzantine Empire and proclaimed him their leader as a descendant of the Cometopuli, though his reign ended in 1073 when he was captured by the Byzantines.

Prior to his death, Abdur Rahman had sought to totally subdue any sources of opposition to his reign and the stability of Afghanistan with strict laws and restrictions.

Prior to the reign of Sargon I of Akkad ( 2335-2280 ) the occurrence of trade was limited to the internal boundaries of each city-state of Babylon and the temple located at the centre of economic activity there-in ; trade at the time for citizens external to the city was forbidden.

Prior to the merger, Hegra had 2, 704 residents.

* 1947 – Maddy Prior, English singer ( Steeleye Span, Silly Sisters, and The Carnival Band )

* MySQL database system – Prior to v5. 1, MySQL included a BDB data storage backend.

Florida shut the Cubs out in Game 5, but young pitcher Mark Prior led the Cubs in Game 6 as they took a 3 – 0 lead into the 8th inning and it was at this point when a now-infamous incident took place.

Prior to the outbreak of the 1998 – 2000 Eritrean – Ethiopian War, landlocked Ethiopia mainly relied on the seaports of Asseb and Massawa in Eritrea for international trade.

Prior Executive Editors include John V. Dodge ( 1950 – 1964 ) and Philip W. Goetz.

Prior to the Gatling gun, the only weapons available to militaries capable of firing many projectiles in a short space of time were mass-firing volley weapons like the French Reffye mitrailleuse in 1870 – 71, or field cannons firing canister, much like a very large shotgun.

Prior to the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 63 ), the economy of Saint-Domingue gradually expanded, with sugar and, later, coffee becoming important export crops.

* Prior Aymer – Prior of Jorvaulx

* 1664 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat ( d. 1721 )

Prior to the publication of The Kalevala, Elias Lönnrot compiled several related works including the three-part Kantele ( 1829 – 1831 ) the Old Kalevala ( 1835 ) and the Kanteletar ( 1840 ).

Prior to the 18th century, Afghans have served in the militaries of the Ghaznavids ( 963 – 1187 ), Ghurids ( 1148 – 1215 ), Delhi Sultanate ( 1206 – 1527 ) and the Mughal Empire of India ( 1526 – 1858 ) as well as in the army of the Persian Empire.

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* 1980 – Mark Prior, American baseball player

* 1721 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat ( b. 1664 )

Prior to its affiliation with The Greens – European Free Alliance, the SNP had previously been allied with the European Progressive Democrats ( until 1984 ), Rainbow Group ( 1989 – 1994 ) and European Radical Alliance ( 1994 – 1999 ).

Prior to Independence, Thomas Mifflin was a member of Pennsylvania's Provincial Assembly ( 1772 – 1776 ).

Prior to the events, the university received a facelift that included extensive renovations to the Rice – Eccles Stadium, a light rail track leading to downtown Salt Lake City, a new student center known as the Heritage Center, an array of new student housing, and a 134-room campus hotel and conference center.

* Prior to 3500 BCE ( prehistory – Stone Age and Chalcolithic ): hunter-gatherer societies slowly giving way to farming and herding societies, and early metal-working in the last thousand years ;

Prior to the 3rd Intermediate Period of Egypt from the ( 15th century BCE ), names of semitic-speaking pastoral cattle nomadic peoples of the Levant appear, replacing previous Egyptian concern with the Hurrianised ' prw (' Apiru or Habiru ).

His extant commentaries are on Prior Analytics ( Book 1 ), Topics, Meteorology, Sense and Sensibilia, and Metaphysics ( Books 1-5 ).

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 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

Prior to 1989, use of a copyright notice — consisting of the copyright symbol (, the letter C inside a circle ), the abbreviation " Copr.

* Jones, D. and H. Michaelis ( 1913 ), " A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language ", Hanover-Berlin: Carl Meyer and Gustav Prior ; rpt in Jones ( 2002 ).

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 Nazism, however, the term was used throughout Germanic language countries without negative connotations ( e. g. in Hermann Broch's novel The Sleepwalkers ), or often to refer to their homelands much as the word " motherland " does.

Prior uses of machine readable media had been for control ( automatons such as piano rolls or looms ), not data.

Prior to 1979, the symbol < span style =" font-size: 112 %"></ span > ( script small l, U + 2113 ), came into common use in some countries ; for example, it was recommended by South African Bureau of Standards publication M33 and Canada in the 1970s.

Prior to that, his last produced play was The Tik-Tok Man of Oz ( based on Ozma of Oz and the basis for Tik-Tok of Oz ), a modest success in Hollywood that producer Oliver Morosco decided did not do well enough to take to Broadway.

Prior to the codification of the standard language ( Standard Macedonian ), Macedonian dialects were described by linguists as being either dialects of Bulgarian or Serbian.

Prior to the formation of the OSS ( the American version of the British Secret Intelligence Service and Special Operations Executive ), American intelligence had been conducted on an ad-hoc basis by the various departments of the executive branch, including the State, Treasury, Navy, and War Departments.

* Summer Solstice ( album ), 1971 folk music album by Maddy Prior and Tim Hart

Prior to the taro leaf blight, Samoa's exports consisted of taro ($ 1. 1 million ), coconut cream ($ 540, 000 ), and " other " ($ 350, 000 ).

Prior to major Taiwanese economic success, the mountainous areas held several endemic animal species and subspecies, such as the Swinhoe's Pheasant ( Lophura swinhoii ), Taiwan blue magpie ( Urocissa caerulea ), Formosan Black Bear ( Selanarctos thibetanus formosanus ), the Formosan Sika Deer ( Cervus nippon taiwanensis or Cervus nippon taiouanus ) and the Formosan landlocked salmon ( Oncorhynchus masou formosanus ).

Prior to Michelangelo's involvement, the Overseers of the Office of Works of the Duomo ( Operai ), consisting mostly of members of the influential woolen cloth guild, the Arte della Lana, had plans to commission a series of twelve large Old Testament sculptures for the buttresses of the cathedral of Santa Maria Del Fiore.

Prior to 1993, the U. S. Army employed the Commercial Heavy Equipment Transporter ( C-HET ), which consists of either the M746 or the M911 truck tractor, with the M747 semitrailer.

Prior to this, many nonwhite immigrants with full rights of citizenship in Britain were obliged to take the jobs that no one else wanted ( such as street cleaning, night-shift assembly production lines ), often paid considerably less than their white counterparts.