Prior to Ravalomanana's resignation, concerns had arisen about the conflict of interest between his policies and the activities of his firms.

Prior to the first annual convention following the reinstitution of the practice requiring that leaders step down and run to succeed themselves each electoral cycle ( this, along with annual confidence votes had been repealed in 2001 ), Carr announced her resignation on September 24, 2006.

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

The Grand Prior may also appoint a secretary of the order, who holds office at the pleasure of the Grand Prior or until resignation.

Prior to the resignation, there had already been widespread rumors that Bainimarama wanted to remove Chaudhry from the government.

The programme also made the news itself, when James Prior announced his resignation as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland live during a show.

Prior to his resignation, Sorensen stated his intent to write Kennedy's biography, calling it " the book that President Kennedy had intended to write with my help after his second term.

Prior to his resignation, in 1991, Daim ’ s contribution was succinctly summed up as thus: “ Despite having much of his tenure clouded in controversy, the outgoing Finance Minister has nonetheless earned the reputation as one of the country ’ s ablest economic architects, having steered Malaysia through recession into four straight years of high growth .” In another article, “ Daim exits office having earned the distinction of being a hard – driving technocrat, who resisted pressure by rival ministers who wanted to alter fiscal policy for political expediency ….”

Prior this president of Television Animation was Barry Blumberg, who announced his resignation in November 2005.

Prior to Paterson succeeding Eliot Spitzer on March 17, 2008, the last lieutenant governor to succeed to the governorship was Malcolm Wilson following the 1973 resignation of Nelson Rockefeller.

Prior to Karl Rove's resignation in 2007, Hagin's day-to-day power rivaled that of Rove.

Prior to that ruling, President Clinton applied the line-item veto to the federal budget 82 times.

Prior to the settlement of the area by English colonists, a hill east of the mouth of the Neponset River near what is now called Squantum was the seat of the ruling Massachusett sachem, or native American leader, Chickatawbut.

In a 1984 United States District Court ruling, the court affirmed that the municipal boundary of the City of Prior Lake did include the tribal lands in question.

Prior to the Bosman ruling, professional clubs in parts of Europe ( but not, for example, in Spain and France ) were able to prevent players from joining a club in another country even if their contracts had expired.

* Prior to the first Eagles game of the 2007 season, a ruling was made concerning a Philadelphia and national tradition: tailgating.

Prior to the ruling, the legality of abortion was decided by each state ; it was illegal in 30 states and legal under certain cases in 20 states.

Prior to this ruling, section 251 of the Criminal Code, allowed for abortions to be performed at only accredited hospitals with the proper certification of approval from the hospital's Therapeutic Abortion Committee.

Prior to the American Revolution, all governments were controlled by small minorities of ruling elites ; large parts of the population were completely disfranchised, even in countries like Switzerland whose governments ( local, regional, and federal ) were constitutionally democratic by modern standards.

Prior to the ruling, Washington county secession movements had interpreted the law to require signatures from only half of those who voted in the most recent election.

Prior to the 1998 elections, DA entered into a coalition with VMRO-DPMNE with which it won the elections and formed a ruling government.

Prior to the 1970 ruling, the motto was " Good Ale, Raw Onions and No Ladies "; the raw onions can still be had as part of McSorley's cheese platter.

Prior to the recent ruling by the ICZN, many invertebrate superfamily names ended in the suffix-acea, or-aceae, not-oidea as now required according the ICZN article 29. 2.

Prior to the Kolpak ruling ECB rules had limited each county to one overseas ( non-EU ) professional.

Prior to the SEC's ruling, PFS Investments Inc. hired an independent consultant to review its supervisory and compliance policies and procedures to prevent and detect violations of the federal securities laws.

Prior to 1973, Conservative Judaism had more limited roles for women and was more similar to current Modern Orthodoxy, with changes on issues including mixed seating, synagogue corporate leadership, and permitting women to be called to the Torah.

Prior to 1973, Conservative approaches to change were generally on an individual, case-by-case basis.

During the Grunwick dispute — where workers struck over pay, working conditions and the owner George Ward's refusal to recognise their trade union — there was a split in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet between the conciliatory approach of Jim Prior, the Shadow Employment Secretary, and Keith Joseph.

Tebbit was accused of comparing Prior to Laval and at that year's Conservative Party conference Tebbit attempted to avoid personalising the issue, and openly splitting the party, without retracting what he had said.

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 1984, Canada was seen as having a dominant-party system led by the Liberal Party while Progressive Conservative governments therefore were considered by many of these pundits as caretaker governments, doomed to fall once the collective mood of the electorate shifted and the federal Liberal Party eventually came back to power.

Prior to defecting, Jackson had indicated he would not stand in the forthcoming general election, following Iain Duncan-Smith's election as Conservative Leader, and he duly stepped down in April 2005.

He had a large impact on the Conservative manifesto for the 1979 election, although frequently a compromise had to be reached with Heath's more moderate supporters such as James Prior.

Prior to this, the only Tory / Conservative party in Scotland was the official Conservative Party, which had never achieved parity with the dominant Whig and Scottish Liberal Party ascendancy since the election reforms of 1832.

Prior to his election to Speaker he was a member of the Conservative Party.

Prior to 1970, Cormack was a member of the Bow Group and the Conservative Monday Club, resigning from both at the end of 1971.

He was finally elected in 2001, at the third attempt, narrowly defeating the incumbent Conservative MP David Prior by 483 votes.

Prior to the 1997 general election, with polls predicting that the Conservatives had no chance of retaining the Blackpool South seat, Hawkins applied and was selected to contest the newly-created constituency of Surrey Heath, which was predicted to be one of the safest Conservative seats in the country.

Prior to his election in 1997, Bob served as Chairman of the Conservative Foreign Affairs Forum ( 1986-8 ) and Chairman of the Conservative Group for Europe ( 1992-5 ).

Prior to her appointment to the House of Lords, Lady Anelay held a number of senior posts in the Conservative Party organisation.

Prior to 1942, it was known as the Conservative Party of Saskatchewan.

* David Prior ( UK politician ) ( born 1954 ), British Conservative Party Member of Parliament 1997 – 2001

Prior to the 1925 provincial election, he was asked to become leader of the Nova Scotia Conservative Party after the leader of the party, W. L. Hall, was assaulted on the waterfront.

In 1888, Prior won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative.

Prior to 1990, the ward had a strong tendency towards the Conservative Party.

Prior to entering federal politics he was a provincial politician serving in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2005 and a cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves serving as the Minister for Children, Community and Social Services, Energy and Francophone Affairs in addition to being the Government's Chief Whip.

Prior to the 1970 general election, the Conservative Party compiled a manifesto that highlighted free-market economic policies.