Prior to the election, more than fifty of Doe's opponents were murdered.

Prior to June 2005, the Maldivian political system was based on the election of individuals, rather than the more common system of election according to party platform.

Prior to the election of the Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II in 1978, the last non-Italian was Pope Adrian VI of the Netherlands, elected in 1522.

Prior to the 2000 election the media typically alternated which color represented which party each presidential election cycle.

Prior to his election, Stephen had been the cardinal-priest of St Anastasia in Rome.

Prior to his election as FIFA President, Blatter was a senior FIFA official for 23 years.

Meanwhile, a delegation from the African Union Commission praised the election for taking place with " calm and serenity " Prior to the 2009 election, Tunisia amended its constitution to allow more candidates to run for president, allowing the top official from each political party to compete for the presidency regardless of whether they held seats in parliament.

Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin had been elected President of Russia in June 1991 in the first direct presidential election in Russian history.

Prior to Prince's election black clergy made political endorsements and served as appointees to the Richmond School Board and other boards throughout the city.

Prior to the 2002 election Queen Anne's County was run by three Commissioners.

Prior to Aristide's election in 1990, there were just 34 secondary schools nationwide.

Prior to the election of Aristide, health care services had been primarily concentrated in the capital of Port-au-Prince.

Following the election of Prior Ernulf in 1096, Lanfranc's inadequate east end was demolished, and replaced with an eastern arm 198 feet long, doubling the length of the cathedral.

Prior to the start of the 2011 – 12 season, Athletic Club's socios ( full members ) held their latest presidential election, which saw incumbent Fernando García Macua defeated by former long-serving player Josu Urrutia.

Prior to the 2006 general election, the county was a dry county, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages.

Prior to Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John Kerry's selection of Senator John Edwards, Vilsack was thought to be high on the list of potential running mates for Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.

Prior to the 2004 election, Buchanan announced he once again identified himself as a Republican, declared that he had no interest in ever running for president again, and reluctantly endorsed Bush's 2004 re-election, writing:

Prior to his election as President, Köhler had a distinguished career in politics and the civil service and as a banking executive.

Prior to the 2006 election the party's Central Committee relinquished control of selecting the Knesset list to the ' rank and file ' members at Netanyahu's behest.

Prior to his call for an election, Charest revealed his platform which included income tax cuts of about $ 250 million dollars.

Prior to entering provincial politics, Klein considered himself a Liberal Party supporter, although he did support the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Brian Mulroney in the 1988 federal election .< ref >

Prior to the 2008 elections, a decision to change the electoral date and extend the parliamentary mandate resulted in major controversy when the Assembly deputies snubbed the president and chose to extend their mandate.

Prior to the 1960 Democratic National Convention, Stevenson announced that he was not seeking the Democratic nomination for president, but would accept a draft.

Prior to the inauguration of the 2008 season, Henry Neumann resigned as president and entered politics.

Prior to becoming president in 1997, McAleese had also held the following positions: Director of Channel 4 Television, Director, Northern Ireland Electricity, Director, Royal Group of Hospitals Trust and Founding member of the Irish Commission for Prisoners Overseas.

Prior to being elected president, Müller served as the Vice-president in 1898, 1906, 1912, and 1918.

Prior to the formation of the system, the position of president was more akin to what is now chancellor of the Columbia campus.

Prior to the 2009 constitutional reforms, if no candidate received half the popular vote, the president was chosen by a vote in a joint legislative session from among the top two candidates ( prior to 1995, the top three candidates were eligible ).

The corporation consists of four ex officio members: the president of the college, the Prior Provincial of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph, the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, and the chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Prior to the ascendancy of Anwar Sadat to president of Egypt in 1970, the Middle East had been an important arena in the global superpower competition, most lucidly displayed in the arms sales and cooperation between the American and Soviet governments with Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iran allied to The United States, and Egypt, Syria, and Iraq allied with the Soviet Union.

Prior to that he was president of the company, responsible for Raytheon ’ s government and defense operations, including the four Strategic Business Areas of Missile Defense ; Precision Engagement ; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance ( ISR ); and Homeland Security.

Prior to becoming president, he served as the Executive Secretary of the Department of Higher Education of the National Education Association for seven years.

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 his election, Mwanawasa served as vice president from 1991 to 1994 whilst an elected Member of Parliament for Chifubu Constituency.

Prior to accepting the job as university president, Lunsford served as the vice president of student affairs and external relations at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Prior to 1960, the U. S. had never had a Catholic president.

Prior to his removal, he was executive vice president of the church and president of the college, and was widely considered to be heir-apparent to succeed his father as head of the church and its operations.

Prior to his election as president, Ramos served in the Cabinet of President Corazon Aquino first as chief-of-staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines ( AFP ), chief of Integrated National Police, and later on, as Secretary of National Defense from 1986 to 1991.

Prior to being president, he led the Eritrean People's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) to victory in May 1991, thus ending the 30-year-old armed liberation struggle for Eritrean independence.

Prior to Serzh Sargsyan's election as president of Armenia and for a short time thereafter, the ARF was a member of the governing coalition, even though it nominated its own candidate in the presidential elections.

Prior to 1948, various standards for luminous intensity were in use in a number of countries.

Prior to 1948 censuses mentioned five major tribes in the Negev: the Tayaha, Tarabin, Azazma, Jabarat and Hanajra.

Prior to moving to Hollywood, she played the young Estella in David Lean's version of Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet ( 1948 ), for which she received her first Oscar nomination.

Prior to the 1943 Quebec Conference, a joint British-American planning team produced a plan (" Appreciation and Plan for the Defeat of Japan ") which did not call for an invasion of the Japanese home islands until 1947 – 1948.

Prior to the 1948 season, the Roughriders were in need of new uniforms as their red and black ones had become old and worn out.

Prior to 1948 the Ramat Beit Shemesh neighborhood area was the site of the Arab village Beit Natif.

Prior the proclamation of an East German state, the Soviets established in 1948 the German Economic Commission ( DWK ) as a de facto government in their occupation zone.

Prior to World War II, it was called, or Emperor's Birthday, but after the war the new government renamed it Tennō tanjōbi, less formal language with the same meaning, in 1948, when it was established as a holiday by law.

Prior to his provincial political career, Prevost served as mayor of the city of Beauport ( now part of Quebec City ) from 1948 to 1952 and was worked for the Beauport School Board for nearly 20 years at high-class various positions.

Prior to 1948 cadet forces in schools existed as part of the Officers ' Training Corps framework, but in 1948 Combined Cadet Force was formed covering cadets affiliated to all three services.

Prior to working with Caesar she had starred in an early ABC series, Buzzy Wuzzy, which lasted 4 episodes in 1948.

Prior to 1951 playoffs had only been necessary in 1946 ( NL ) and 1948 ( AL ).

Prior to the start of the 1948 – 49 season the league was expanded to 16 clubs, largely through the addition of the ' A ' teams of four London clubs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United.

Prior to Strategic Air Command's role at RAF Mildenhall, Headquarters United States Air Forces in Europe established Third Air Force at South Ruslip Air StationSouth Ruislip Air Station in 1948 to command B-29 operations in England.

Upon returning to Britain, Lord and Lady Wakehurst worked with community organisations including the Order of St John of Jerusalem, of which Wakehurst was Lord Prior from 1948 to 1969, subsequently also a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order ( GCStJ ), and for the English-Speaking Union.

Prior to 1948, the stadium had been used as a cycle track and had been home to Poole Town Football Club since 1933.

Prior to 2001, postal votes had been available since 1948 only to those unable to attend a polling station for reasons of ill health, employment or planned holiday away from home and to some electors living on small islands where they would need to cross water to reach their polling station.

Prior to this stage, the Kenyan leaders had dismissed him and called him names just as they did in 1948 before the colonialists subsequently arrested and detained him in Lamu.

Prior to independence large part of the district was under the princely rule of Maharaja of Faridkot and later it became part of the Patiala & East Punjab States Union ( PEPSU ) in 1948.

Prior to 1948, the region of Saurashtra, which at present forms a part of Gujarat State, comprised many small, medium and large princely states.

Prior to this date, the Armenian Evangelical community of Beirut, to complement its high schools, had established two post-secondary educational entities: the Teacher ’ s Training Institute, which was housed in the library of the Central High School and operated from 1948 – 51, and the Armenian Evangelical College, which held a Freshman Arts and Sciences program under the sponsorship of the First Armenian Evangelical Church of Beirut.

Prior to doing photographic work, Rogerline Johnson taught and coached at local schools after earning a degree from Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College in 1948.

Prior to the establishment of the Diocese of Tunsberg in 1948, then counties of Vestfold and Buskerud belonged to the Diocese of Oslo.