Prior to his appointment as Duke, Otto had been a long-time opponent of Henry II's expanding influence in Swabia.

Prior to the 2008-09 season opener, the Blackhawks named Toews, at 20 years and 79 days, as the new captain, succeeding the traded Lapointe and making him the third-youngest captain at the time of appointment.

Prior to his court appointment, Michael was originally a money-changer, but it was believed that he was also secretly a forger of false coins.

Prior to that appointment, Foley was President Emeritus of Pontifical Council for Social Communications and Titular Archbishop of Neapolis in Proconsulari.

Prior to her appointment, she was Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Prior to his appointment, the economy was run by Hermann Göring.

Prior to his appointment to Ethiopia by John F. Kennedy, Korry was European editor for Look magazine and a United Press correspondent in post-World War II Europe.

Prior to his appointment to Sydney University in 2004, he taught for over 28 years at the University of New South Wales.

Prior vacancies in the office had been filled by the incumbent assistant chief, and Arnold's appointment to succeed Westover seemed automatic since he was well-qualified.

Prior to Eisenhower's appointment as Supreme Commander all planning for Overlord fell to the Chief of Staff to the Supreme Commander Allied Forces ( COSSAC ), Frederick E. Morgan.

Prior to granting access to information, an individual who has been cleared must sign a Security Screening Certificate and Briefing Form ( TBS / SCT 330-47 ), indicating their willingness to be bound by several Acts of Parliament during and after their appointment finishes.

Prior to his appointment, Euphemius was a presbyter of Constantinople, administrator of a hospital for the poor at Neapolis, unsuspected of any Eutychian leanings, and is described as learned and very virtuous.

Prior to his appointment as LSU's eighth chancellor, Dr. Martin had established a distinguished career in higher education, serving most recently as president of New Mexico State University.

Prior to this appointment Horinko was Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response ( OSWER ) at EPA, having been confirmed by the U. S. Senate on October 1, 2001.

The administrative structure designed by Philip II of Spain was blurring, first with the appointment of a Governor by Carlos III — detrimental to the powers of the Lord Mayor and El Escorial's Prior — and, subsequently, with the privatization of land.

Prior to her appointment as Governor-General, she presided over a 1988 inquiry into issues related to cervical cancer and its treatment at Auckland's National Women's Hospital, known as the Cartwright Inquiry.

Prior to his appointment, Everton Chairman Bill Kenwright contacted Moyes and invited him to his home in London to discuss the available position at Everton.

Prior to her appointment as Lieutenant Governor, Weston spent over two decades working in business and in the fashion industry.

Prior to assuming the role of governor upon the appointment of Tommy Thompson as Secretary of Health and Human Services, McCallum served as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin.

Prior to his appointment as Deputy Secretary, he served as the second administrator of the Transportation Security Administration from 2002 to 2003, and before that as the Commandant of the Coast Guard from 1998 to 2002.

Prior to this appointment, he served as the United States Deputy Secretary of State and as the first ever Director of National Intelligence.

Prior to his appointment as Prime Minister, he served as the deputy prime minister for industry, energy, transport, and communications from 2001 to 2003.

Prior to his appointment, he had served for over a decade in the upper echelons of APHIS as:

Prior to his appointment as Chancellor, he had served in a number of other positions, including as Prime Minister of Bavaria ( 1866 – 1870 ), German Ambassador to Paris ( 1873 – 1880 ), Foreign Secretary ( 1880 ) and Imperial Lieutenant of Alsace-Lorraine ( 1885 – 1894 ).

Prior to his sudden death in December 983, Otto II had installed Pope John XIV, a non-Roman who had served as Otto II's chancellor in Italy, on the chair of St. Peter.

Prior to its sale to News Corp, the last members of the board of directors of the company were: Christopher Bancroft, Lewis B. Campbell, Michael Elefante, John Engler, Harvey Golub, Leslie Hill, Irvine Hockaday, Peter Kann, David Li, M. Peter McPherson ( Chairman ), Frank Newman, James Ottaway, Elizabeth Steele, and William Steere.

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.

For the Spring 2011 tour, the line-up consisted of Prior ( vocals ), Rick Kemp ( bass, vocals ), Peter Knight ( violin, piano, vocals ), Pete Zorn ( guitar ), Julian Littman ( guitar ) and Liam Genockey ( drums and percussion ), and draws on past and current Steeleye Span repertoire.

Prior to this, it was also known as Détroit Saint-Pierre ( by Cartier himself on August 1, 1534, the day of St. Peter ), Labrador Channel ( until 1815 ), and Mingan Passage.

Prior to the appearance of the article by Nellen, the sole serious candidate had been the German Lutheran theologian Peter Meiderlin ( also known as Rupertus Meldenius ), who, in his Paraenesis votiva pro pace ecclesiae ad theologos Augustanae of 1626 had said, " Verbo dicam: Si nos servaremus in necesariis Unitatem, in non-necessariis Libertatem, in utrisque Charitatem, optimo certe loco essent res nostrae.

Amongst his school contemporaries were James Prior, William Rees-Mogg, Oliver Popplewell and Peter May.

Prior to the 2005 Australian Open, Safin had caught fire towards the end of the 2004 season after falling into an active volcano whilst holidaying in Hawaii, however thanks in part to his hiring of Peter Lundgren, and was seen as among the favourites for the title.

Prior to the Findhorn Foundation in 1972 there was a Findhorn Trust as more people joined Eileen Caddy, Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean, who had arrived at the Caravan Park at Findhorn Bay on 17 November 1962.

* Dennis, Peter, Grey, Jeffrey, Morris, Ewan, Prior, Robin.

Prior to that in April-May 1828, the Russian commander-in-chief, Prince Peter Wittgenstein, had moved into Rumanian Principates Wallachia and Moldavia and occupied them.

Prior to resigning from his position at Harvard to focus on his practice, he was the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture and taught advanced and theoretical design classes and core studios.

Prior to World War II, principal shareholder and Austrian industrialist Peter Paul Von Bauer secretly sold his shares to the Pan American World Airways in an attempt to protect the airline from acquisition by the Nazi government.

In 1830, in an attempt to ensure a supply of priests for the District, Bishop Peter Baines, the Vicar-Apostolic, had bought the Prior Park estate near Bath and had established there a school and a seminary, now Prior Park College.

Prior to the creation of The Cash Brothers, Andrew and Peter Cash both had established careers as songwriters and musicians.

Prior to the British GP, team principal Peter Sauber look for replacements to take Fontana's seat but eventually decided to keep Fontana on board.

Prior to 1994, when he started Peter S. Cohan & Associates, a management consulting and venture capital firm, Cohan worked for Index Systems, an information technology management consulting firm started by several MIT professors ; and at The Monitor Company, a strategy consulting firm co-founded by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter, an expert on competition and strategy.

Prior to the Cold War paranoia of the mid-20th century, anonymous LTEs were common ; in fact, the right to write anonymously was central to the free-press / free-speech movement ( as in the 1735 trial against John Peter Zenger, which started with an anonymous essay ).

Prior to his death, he illustrated Peter Milligan's 1999 revival of Len Wein's creation, Human Target.

The term " wet " was originally applied to supporters of Thatcher's predecessor as party leader, Edward Heath ( who was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974 ), as well as Heath's associates such as Jim Prior and Peter Walker.

Prior to setting out to the Muslim lands, the Franciscans had met with Peter's sister, who told them that she had " a little piece of Morocco in her heart " and asked them to give Peter her love.

Prior to the existence of Nouvel Catholic Central High School and Saints Peter and Paul Area High School, the school building, which also houses the offices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saginaw, was the Saint Paul Seminary.