Prior to the Dominion War, the Tal Shiar and the Cardassian Obsidian Order secretly worked together to launch a pre-emptive strike on the Founder homeworld.

Prior to the launch of its HD feed in 2004, some sitcoms and drama series were presented in this format, but now reality, talk, and game shows ( American Idol being the lone exception, as it is presented in High Definition ) are only presented in the enhanced definition widescreen mode.

Prior to launch, Soyuz 1 engineers are said to have reported 203 design faults to party leaders, but their concerns " were overruled by political pressures for a series of space feats to mark the anniversary of Lenin's birthday.

Prior to the launch of the comics division, Disney management proclaimed their intention to quickly become a dominant presence in the comic book market, competing with industry leaders DC and Marvel.

Prior to the final launch of the Columbia, Anderson stated: " There's always that unknown.

Prior to launch, Columbia spent 103 days in the Orbiter Processing Facility.

Prior to the launch, Columbia had spent only 70 days in the Orbiter Processing Facility — a record checkout time.

Prior to the close of the sale, WGN-TV was one of two Chicago commercial television stations ( not counting network-owned stations ) to have never been involved in an ownership transaction ( WCIU is the other, having been owned by Weigel Broadcasting since its launch in 1964 ).

Prior to these attacks the missile's range was thought to be less than, but these attacks proved that the range exceeded with Kuwaiti military observers seeing that the missiles originated from the area and tracking them on radar along with US satellite imagery of the launch sites.

Prior to the launch of Major League Soccer in 1996, teams from Los Angeles played in the Western American Soccer League, the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League / A-League, winning ten league championships ( 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1974, 1976 ), seven Lamar Hunt US Open Cups ( 1958, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 ), four regional championships ( 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 ) and one international championship ( 1975 ).

Prior to launch, " x86-64 " and " x86_64 " were used to refer to the instruction set.

Prior to its launch, Sky Movies signed first-run deals with 20th Century-Fox, Warner Bros. Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Orion Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution Co.

Prior to the launch of Apple's Mac App Store, GarageBand was only available as a part of iLife, a suite of applications ( also including iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and iWeb ) intended to simplify the creation and organization of digital content.

Prior to 2011: TV3 Group initially proposed to launch two channels to appear on the OneVision pay television service.

Prior to the launch of The Late Show in January 1989, there was some scepticism as to whether or not the programme, running four nights per week on BBC Two in a late night slot after Newsnight, would be a success.

Prior to the Challenger disaster, this mission was slated to launch in March 1986 as STS-61-E. Jon McBride was originally assigned to command this mission, which would have been his second spaceflight.

Prior to the launch, an article in The Grocer trade magazine had mentioned that the source of the Dasani brand water was in fact treated tap water from Sidcup, a suburban development in London.

Prior to the Challenger accident, Gardner was chosen to be a member of the first Shuttle mission to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Prior to the launch of the new station, GWN held a commercial monopoly on the market.

Prior to launch, and continuing through the early part of the mission, flight controllers on the ground were monitoring an anomaly within the electrical power generating Fuel Cell # 2 ( of three ), making it appear that oxygen and hydrogen might be starting to uncontrollably mix, which could lead to detonation.

Prior to its launch on 17 January 1983, BBC regional radio broadcasting for Cornwall amounted to the breakfast show ' Morning Sou ' West ' on the AM frequencies of Radio 4 in Devon and Cornwall.

Prior to this, the station generally stopped broadcasting at around 6pm, and handed over to BBC Radio 2 which was carried on the station's frequencies until the following morning although for the three years prior to the launch of Night Network, Radio Humberside had broadcast the Yorkshire-wide early evening specialist music programmes which were also carried on Radios York, Leeds and Sheffield.

Prior to the Smartmodem, modems were almost entirely manual in operation, having developed from acoustic couplers that used a traditional telephone for dialling and hanging up.

Prior to 2002, available historical accounts noted that Beria had a notorious reputation that " almost certainly had some foundation ", but was ultimately inconclusive.

Prior to the tournament he meets Natalia Katkov ( Watson ) and he falls in love with her almost immediately.

Prior to insertion, a sparkling wine cork is almost 50 % larger than the opening of the bottle.

Prior to 1985, almost all finals were played in the 2-2-1-1-1 format ( although the 1971 finals between Milwaukee and Baltimore were on an alternate-home basis, some 1950s finals used the 2-3-2 format, and the 1975 Golden State-Washington and 1978 and 1979 Seattle-Washington finals were on a 1-2-2-1-1 basis ).

The " anxious sweetness " of the fictional Abbot Heribert is set against the proud and ambitious Prior Robert, who Kollman argues " almost becomes the true villain of the series ".

Prior to the actual construction of the navigation, there had been almost 120 years of proposals for such a scheme, and opposition from the port of Maldon, which anticipated that its revenues would fall if vessels could travel to Chelmsford.

* Prior to 1987, a government department – the New Zealand Electricity Department ( NZED ) controlled and operated almost all New Zealand electricity generation and operated the New Zealand electricity transmission grid

Prior to the arrival of the Roman legions, the area was almost certainly lightly rolling open countryside traversed by streams such as Walbrook.

Prior to Austin, the attention of linguistic and analytic philosophers had been directed almost exclusively to statements, assertions, and propositions — to linguistic acts that ( at least in theory ) have truth-value.

Prior to bossa nova, Brazilian singers employed brassy, almost operatic styles.

Prior to the advent of the portable ' mill, small-scale sawmills were generally cobbled-together affairs constructed and operated by ( almost always ) two men with a penchant for tinkering.

Prior to the " Battle of Seattle ," there was almost no mention of " anti-globalization " in the US media, while the protests were seen as having forced the media to report on why anybody would oppose the WTO.

Prior to French settlements in the St. Lawrence River valley, the local Iroquoian peoples were almost completely displaced, probably because of warfare with their neighbours the Algonquin.

Prior to this and for quite some time after, many other personal computer systems instead used their main, general purpose CPU to handle almost every aspect of drawing the display short of generating the final video signal.

Prior to his flight, Mr. Shuttleworth completed Space Adventures ’ Orbital Pre-Qualification Program and underwent almost eight months of training and medical exams, including a one-week orientation program at NASA ’ s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Prior to this, coal had been mined at Fordell for over a century, but the discovery of the coal seams at the depth they were found came as a pleasant surprise, considering the dip in the coal strata at Fordell, as it was previously thought that the seams at Cowdenbeath would be at such a depth as to be almost unworkable.

Prior to the advent of permanent standing committees in the early 19th century, the House of Representatives relied almost exclusively on select committees to carry out much of its legislative work.

Prior to filming, Peirce conducted extensive research into the case which lasted almost five-and-a-half years.

Prior to the First World War almost all countries had voting ages of 21 or higher.

Prior to its adoption as the Privy Seal of the United Kingdom after the Act of Union 1707, its most notable appearance in Scottish history was its capture by the Scots in the aftermath of the Battle of Byland Ridge in 1322, when the Scots led by Robert the Bruce almost captured Edward II, who was forced to flee leaving behind many personal possessions including the Privy Seal.

Prior to the 19th century the area outside the city walls occupying the east side of Old San Juan Island, was almost uninhabited.

Prior to 1956, the region had almost always provided the only victories for Democratic challengers to popular Republican incumbent presidents.

Prior to the find Olmec-influenced statuary and architecture had been almost completely unknown for other sites in the western Morelos region, and Zazacatla's excavation represents the strongest evidence yet for some form of trade or contact between the area and the " Olmec heartland " in the Gulf Coast region, some 400 km ( 249 mi ) to the east.