Prior to the American Revolution, the College of Arms in England served as the heraldic authority for the granting of arms to American colonists.

Prior to the Revolution, New Englanders consumed large quantities of rum and beer, as maritime trade provided them relatively easy access to the goods needed to produce these items: Rum was the distilled spirit of choice, as the main ingredient, molasses, was readily available from trade with the West Indies.

* Regulated access to genetic resources and traditional knowledge, including Prior Informed Consent of the party providing resources.

Prior to legislative changes, very few Canadian women had access to midwifery care, in part because it was not funded by the health care system.

Prior to its breakup in 1984, Bell System's legal monopoly over telephony in the United States allowed the company to impose strict rules on how consumers could access their network.

Prior to this, access to the town was limited to primitive roads and river boats.

Prior to the construction of the Catalina Highway on the opposite side of the Santa Catalina range, the Oracle Control Road was the only road access to the mountain community of Summerhaven.

( Prior to this time, there was no equal access ; major research telescopes were privately funded, and were available only to the astronomers who taught at the universities that ran them.

Roger Prior has argued that the playwright had access to Lord Hunsdon's personal copy of Froissart and quoted some of Hunsdon's annotations.

Prior to this announcement, made in Spring 2007 at Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, Intel had very closely guarded who had access to the FSB, only allowing Intel processors in the CPU socket.

Prior to wireless networks, setting up a computer network in a business, home or school often required running many cables through walls and ceilings in order to deliver network access to all of the network-enabled devices in the building.

Prior to enactment of the Act, universal service had been funded through implicit subsidies, levied as above-cost business rates, urban rates, and above-cost rates for the “ access charges ” that long distance carriers paid as intercarrier compensation to local telephone companies for originating and terminating their subscribers ’ long distance calls.

Prior to the Second Morrill Act, 17 states excluded blacks from access to the land grant colleges without providing similar educational opportunities.

Prior to this, logging companies had been investing into the region: with easier access, natural resources could now be exploited on a larger scale.

Prior to its founding, access to Usenet and E-mail exchange from non-ARPANET sites was accomplished using a cooperative network of systems running the UUCP protocol over POTS lines.

Prior to his resignation, he claimed that the Bush administration was " stonewalling " and blocking the committee's access to key documents and witnesses.

Prior to 1961, all Ford wagons used a two-piece tailgate assembly that required the operator to lift the rear window up and locking it into place via a mechanical support, and then drop the tail gate down to fully access the rear compartment.

Prior to the adoption of blind rivets, installation of a solid rivet typically required access to both sides of the assembly: a rivet hammer on one side and a bucking bar on the other side.

Prior to 1922, when the military road was built, the only access was across the Maplin Sands via the Broomway, a tidal path said to predate the Romans, or by boat.

Prior to the mating season or " rut ", the rams attempt to establish a dominance hierarchy that determines access to ewes for mating.

Prior to this, access to Oswego was limited to primitive roads and river boats.

Prior to this, access to the ancient settlement on the island would have been through the village of Llandanwg, which is now across the estuary.

Prior to the construction of the modern entrance road, the Frey Trail was the only access to the canyon.

Prior to the construction of Exit 8 on Interstate 95 ( which provides direct access to southern Beaufort County ), U. S. 278 went from Ridgeland through Old House and Okatie toward Bluffton, along present-day state routes 336, 462, and 170.

Prior to 2000 access to the mine was controlled by the CSCC and cavers had coexisted with a thriving bat population with voluntary restrictions on the access during the bat roosting season.

Prior to 2001, U. S. law restricted trading such that insiders mainly traded during windows when their inside information was public, such as soon after earnings releases.

Prior to 2. 5, generators were lazy iterators ; information was passed unidirectionally out of the generator.

Prior to the Renaissance, courtesans served to convey information untrusted to servants to visiting dignitaries.

Prior to 1840, meteorological observations in Canada were made by private individuals, other entities ( like HBC ), and explorers, but this information was not provided to the general public.

Prior to the finger program, the only way to get this information was with a < tt > who </ tt > program that showed IDs and for logged-in users.

Prior to the introduction of BS 25999, BCP professionals relied on information security standard BS 7799, which only peripherally addressed BCP to improve an organization's information security procedures.

Prior to and after the match, information like team line-ups, fixtures, and other results are shown.

Prior to its hostile takeover, CAN provided information on groups that it considered to be cults, as well as support and referrals to exit counselors and deprogrammers.

Prior to the invasion, the CIA supported and supplied various groups with arms and other resources, but they were not included in the invasion plans due to concerns about information security.

Prior to the modern POS, all of these functions were done independently and required the manual re-keying of information, which resulted in a lot of errors.

Prior to its opening, the arena installed an integrated scoring, video, information and advertising display system from Daktronics, based in Brookings, South Dakota.

Prior to the German attack on the Soviet Union, he sent information about German troop transfers from other fronts for Operation Barbarossa through a Soviet military attaché in Vichy France.

Prior to 1957, the Mammoth Spring Cattle Sales Barn was co-owned and ran by local entrepreneur Kenneth " Bert " Bishop and his associate, roughly on the site of where the tourist information center now stands.

Prior to the advent of computer technology, the accused were sometimes made to hold a placard with their name, date of birth, booking ID, weight and other relevant information on it.

Prior to his death, Fey ' lya had ordered the data towers to be destroyed to prevent valuable information from getting into the hands of the Yuuzhan Vong.

Prior to the publication of The Silmarillion, this introduction was the only publicly available source for certain information about the First Age of Middle-earth.

Prior to the widespread use of the Internet, the online catalog was often the first information retrieval system library users ever encountered.

Prior art ( also known as state of the art, which also has other meanings, or background art ), in most systems of patent law, constitutes all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality.

Prior art must be available in some way to the public, and in many countries, the information needs to be recorded in a fixed form somehow.

Prior to a franchisee signing a contract, the US Federal Trade Commission regulates information disclosures under the authority of The Franchise Rule.

Prior to the 1970s, a group of American businessmen, arms traffickers, supporters of free enterprise, a black agent of the information services, and a Member of Parliament of the British House of Lords planned the independence of Abaco, or that would have a UK dependency status similar to that of Anguilla.

Prior to its switch to its news and information format, the station was a multi-format station of NPR news, classical music and jazz music.

Prior to accepting the Ledger's editor Willse headed up the review of electronic information options for all Newhouse newspapers.