Prior to becoming Emperor, Domitian's role in the Flavian government was largely ceremonial.

Prior to 1990 Saudi Arabia played an important role in restraining the many Islamist groups that received its aid.

Prior to this — before the Second World War — he was content with the role of an apolitical liberal intellectual: " Now teaching at a lycée in Laon [...] Sartre made his headquarters the Dome café at the crossing of Montparnasse and Raspail boulevards.

Prior to its formal accession to the United Nations, Switzerland had maintained an observer role at the UN's General Assembly and its Economic and Social Council.

* Prior to the passage of the Statute of Westminster, the U. K. government continued to have a significant role in Irish governance.

Prior to that, he had passed on a role in another Stephen Gaghan-written role, Robert Wakefield in Traffic.

Prior to the role of ' Trapper John ', Rogers appeared on television in various roles in both dramas and sitcoms such as The Invaders, The F. B. I., Gunsmoke, Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C., The Fugitive, and had a small supporting role in the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke.

The war poet Siegfried Sassoon, who appears as a major character in the first book, Regeneration, is relegated to a minor role in this final volume, in which the main players are the fictional working-class officer, Billy Prior, and the real-life psychoanalyst, William Rivers.

Prior to the formation of Coastal Command in 1936, the role of the maritime naval operations fell to the RNAS.

Prior to their nominations, and Diana Ross for Lady Sings the Blues the same year with Winfield and Tyson, only three other African Americans-Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Poitier and James Earl Jones-had ever been nominated for a leading role.

* Prior to parturition it may have a role inhibiting contractions, through increasing cAMP levels in the myometrium.

Prior to his role on Beverly Hills, 90210, Green had a recurring role for three seasons ( 1986 – 1989 ) on the hit CBS prime time soap opera Knots Landing, playing the role of Brian Cunningham, the son of Abby Cunningham Ewing ( Donna Mills ).

During this period, about the year 1279, as the purposes of the Order shifted from that of religious hospitallers to a more military role, the position of Prior, the Order's religious head, lost its pre-eminent position.

Prior to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 this role was held by the House of Lords.

" Prior to her role as Grimbridge, Nelkin played only small cameo roles in television series like CHiPs and The Waltons.

Prior to the start of the campaign, the Predators announced defenceman Kimmo Timonen as the team's new captain, while naming Kariya and Steve Sullivan as alternates ( the two served in that role the previous season, as well, but not on a permanent basis ).

( Prior to starting as 44, Victor French had a brief guest role in the season-one episode " Too Many Chiefs " as Smart's Mutual Insurance agent.

Prior to this, the government relied on the monks from the traditional schools in Nara to perform rituals, such as chanting the Golden Light Sutra to bolster the government, but this event marked a new reliance on the esoteric tradition to fulfill this role.

Prior to being cast in the role, Robinson knew little of the Star Trek franchise and had never seen an episode of any of the television series.

Prior to his role with RI, Michel served as the United Nations High Commission on Refugees ( UNHCR ) Regional Representative for the United States and the Caribbean.

Prior to 1997, the role was played by the Governor of Hong Kong

Prior to the tunnel being built, the LIRR's western terminus was Atlantic Street at Clinton Street.

Prior to this time, the western hills of Allegheny County consisted largely of rolling farms and small residential developments.

Prior to the invention of the steamboat, western settlers had no choice but to walk home through the wilderness to reach home.

Prior to fall 2006, Williams Elementary School, Marsh Middle School, and W. T. White High School served western Highland Park.

Prior to about 1800, the crest of the Appalachian Mountains was seen as the western frontier.

Prior to 1913, the town, situated on the western bank of the Pawtuxet River, was the population and industrial center of the larger town of Warwick.

Prior to 2004, the route's last 20 miles ( 32 km ) were co-signed with U. S. Route 101 from the highways ' junction south of Seaside north to Astoria where its intersection with U. S. Route 30 was also U. S. 30's western terminus.

Prior to the 2010 election Bathurst was within the Macquarie federal electoral district which was more easterly based including the Blue Mountains area with Bathurst as the western boundary of the district.

Prior to the opening of the Yellowhead Highway, Highways 5 and 14 both ran the width of Saskatchewan-the respective eastern and western portions of these highways retain their original designations.

Prior to the creation of the Nevada Territory, the area was part of western Utah Territory and was known as Washoe, after the native Washoe people.

Prior to this demolition, the Fort had been built between 1686 and 1743 by the British East India Company with three gates ( the Apollo Gate, the Church Gate and the Bazaar Gate ), a moat, esplanade, level open spaces on its western fringe ( to control fires ) and residences.

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.

Prior to the split, Mishima District covers the cities of Kashiwazaki ( excluding the western part of the city ), village of Kariwa, Nagaoka ( parts of the former towns of Oguni and Koshiji ).

Prior to the completion of Corridor X in western Alabama, U. S. 43 and U. S. 278 shared a concurrency with U. S. 78 between Guin and Hamilton.

Prior to the First World War women's role in society in western countries was generally confined to the domestic sphere ( but not necessarily their own home ) and to certain types of jobs.

Prior to the 1908 exhibition, the western terminus of the Central London Railway ( CLR ) was at Shepherd's Bush.

Prior to this advent any U. S. Mail bound for western localities was transported by ship across the Gulf of Mexico to Panama, where it was freighted across the narrow isthmus to the Pacific and put back on a ship which then departed for points in California.

Prior to the late nineteenth century, western ( specifically European ) empires studied what was said to be high culture of the Middle East, being literature, language, and philology ; however, a reciprocal program and curriculum of study did not exist in the Orient which looked at European lands.

Prior to 1995, the adjacent stations were Millswood and Hawthorn ; both of these stations were closed when the western track was converted to standard gauge ( in 1995 ).

Prior to 16 million years ago, the western Cascade Volcanic Arc stratovolcanoes erupted with periodic regularity for over 27 million years, even as they do today.

Prior to My Three Sons, Demarest appeared with veteran western film star Roscoe Ates in the 1958 episode " And the Desert Shall Blossom " of CBS's Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Prior to 2001, the community of Orleans was spread over two municipal jurisdictions, the eastern portion being in the pre-amalgamation City of Cumberland, the western portion in the City of Gloucester.

Prior to 1904, the Bilibil people lived on an island offshore from Madang, trading clay pots along the coast from Karkar Island to western Morobe Province.

Prior to this event, Maryland had held out and refused to ratify the Articles until every state had ceded its western land claims.