Prior to then, Essendon had ( and still have ) one of the worst records amongst current AFL clubs against Geelong in recent times, having only beaten the Cats once since 2003.

Prior to the Cats ' job, his last managerial job was with the Delmarva Shorebirds, the Class-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles in 2003.

Prior to the season the Cats signed Tagert to an extended contract to keep him at least until the completion of the 2010 season.

Prior to Boiled in Lead, Stemple was in Cats Laughing, which also included notable fantasy / science fiction authors Steven Brust and Emma Bull.

Prior to its inclusion in Cats, the tune was ear-marked for earlier Lloyd Webber projects, including a ballad for Perón in Evita and as a song for Max in his original 1970s draft of Sunset Boulevard.

Prior to being accepted into the 2006 Super 14 season, the Cheetahs areas were represented as a part of the Cats franchise.

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 the 1900 season, the league changed its name to the American League and moved several franchises to larger, strategic locations.

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

Prior to the passage of the United States Constitution, several States passed their own various copyright laws between 1783 and 1787, the first state being Connecticut.

Prior to Kidd returning to New York City, he learned that he was a wanted pirate, and that several English men-of-war were searching for him.

Prior to independence as Zimbabwe, the nation had been known by several names: Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.

Prior to this, in his early twenties, he traveled to negotiate with Emperor Nero for the release of several Jewish priests.

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 fall of Slobodan Milosevic, he personally united the parliamentary opposition in several major congresses.

Prior to graduating from Quincy High School, she wrote to several of her favorite actresses for an autographed picture.

Prior to this, cohorts had been temporary administrative units or tactical task forces of several maniples, even more transitory than the legions themselves.

Prior to his work on the saxophone, Sax made several improvements to the bass clarinet by improving its keywork and acoustics and extending its lower range.

Prior to 1991, the Somali Navy participated in several joint exercises with the United States, Great Britain and Canada.

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 a manned spaceflight, the Soviets launched several precursor unmanned missions between May 1960 and March 1961, to test and develop the Vostok rocket and Vostok spacecraft technology.

Prior to this amendment, Vice President Richard Nixon informally replaced President Dwight Eisenhower for several weeks on each of three occasions when Eisenhower was ill.

Prior to the adoption of the modern binomial system of naming species, a scientific name consisted of a generic name combined with a specific name that was from one to several words long.

Prior to joining the BPP, Shakur had met several of its members on a 1970 trip to Oakland, California.

Prior to his service with the Union Army, he developed several investigative techniques that are still used today.

Prior to the entry of Italy into World War I, Lussu joined the army and was involved in several skirmishes.

Prior to the widespread use of word processors, bullets were often denoted either by a lower-case “ o ” filed-in with ink or by asterisks (*), and several word processors automatically convert asterisks to bullets if used at the start of line.

Prior to King Henry's death in 1547, several statements of position were issued.

Prior to human settlement, there were several million juniper trees in Bermuda.

( Prior to this, the death penalty had already been abolished for murder, but it had remained in force for certain military offences and treason, although no executions had been carried out for several decades.

Prior to the new recording sessions, the band toured Australia and New Zealand ( after a two-show night in Hong Kong ), played concerts in the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden and made several television, radio and live concert appearances in the UK.

Prior to her marriage, she dated actor Paul Reubens for several years beginning in 1993.