The Primus Pilus was also a Pilus Prior, and the most senior of all the centurions within the legion.

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

Prior to the release of this tape, President Nixon had denied political motivations in his instructions to the CIA, and claimed he had no knowledge prior to March 21, 1973 of any involvement by senior campaign officials such as John Mitchell.

Prior to the 2011 school year, Windham High School did not have a senior class.

Prior to the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, large PFI projects were funded through the sale of bonds and / or senior debt.

Prior to OPIC, Connelly worked for Bechtel Corporation ; he was an executive ( 1977 ) and later a senior principal with Bechtel Investments ( 1982-1991 ) ( which later became the Fremont Group ) and the President of Bechtel Energy Resources, Inc. ( 1991-1993 ).

Prior to 2002 the office rotated among retired senior officers from the British Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.

Prior to his departure on September 2, 2003, more than 35, 000 Iraqi police were re-instated, 35 police stations were stood up in Baghdad with several more around the country, the senior deputy interior ministers were appointed and the newly established governing counsel appointed the first Iraqi Minister of Interior, post Saddam Hussein, Nouri Badran.

In 1927, managing director William Macleod sold his stake in the magazine to Samuel Prior, long term financial editor, senior editor and, since buying Archibald's shares some years earlier, major shareholder.

Prior to the close of the 19th century, most general honours within the British Empire were bestowed by the sovereign on the advice of his or her British ministers, who sometimes forwarded advice from ministers of the Crown in the Dominions and colonies ( appointments to the then most senior orders of chivalry the Most Noble Order of the Garter and the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle had been made on ministerial advice since the 18th century and were not restored to the personal gift of the sovereign until 1946 and 1947, respectively ).

Prior to that the team played at Boghead Park from 1879 until the end of the 1999 – 2000 season, 131 years is currently the longest a senior British club has stayed at the same grounds.

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

Prior to his retirement, he was one of eight senior players dropped for the Sharjah Cup in April 2003, and was then omitted from the Pakistan squad for the subsequent Bank Alfalah Cup triangular series.

Prior and after his posts with Grace, he held several senior positions and advisory roles for the United States government ( including serving in President Ronald Reagan's cabinet ) during several administrations since the early 1980s.

Prior to the development of SIOP and survivable command and control, Eisenhower predelegated nuclear release authority to certain senior commanders.

Prior to the decision to close the site, disagreements within DivX, Inc. on what to do with site appears to have led to the resignations of senior personnel, including co-founders Jordan Greenhall and Darrius Thompson.

Prior to playing for the senior team, he played on the under-17 team that finished runners-up to Switzerland at the 2002 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship.

Prior to the turn of the 21st century, Oman's senior team have generally finished in last place in all competitions in which competed in.

Prior to his government service, Winkenwerder worked as a senior health executive and practicing physician for more than 20 years.

Prior to joining the Bulletin, he was senior editor at the bimonthly magazine Foreign Policy, for which he had worked since 1997.

Prior to becoming considered one of the best high school basketball players in the nation as a senior at Thornwood High School in South Holland, Illinois, Curry aspired to be a gymnast and did not pick up basketball until the seventh grade when he reluctantly went out for the school team.

Prior to coming to Australia, Ryan had risen rapidly to very senior roles in British police ranks.

Prior to her election as a city councillor, Bussin served for 15 years as a senior political advisor at the provincial legislature for NDP Member of Provincial Parliament Morton Shulman.

Prior to his election, he worked as Chief Information Officer for the National Hockey League Players Association and was a senior technology consultant at the GTAA for the redevelopment of Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Prior to the year 1878, all apostolic letters and briefs requiring for their validity the leaden seal were engrossed upon rough parchment and in Gothic characters ( round letters, also called Gallicum and commonly Bollatico, but in Italy today Teutonic ) without lines, or diphthongs, or marks of punctuation.

Prior to one month of the beginning of the financial year the President of Turkmenistan submits to the Medjlis of Turkmenistan ( Parliament ) the State budget draft for consideration and adoption

Prior to his graduation at the top of his class, Adorno was already swept up by the revolutionary mood of the time, as is evidenced by his reading of Georg Lukacs's The Theory of the Novel that year, as well as by his fascination with Ernst Bloch's The Spirit of Utopia, of which he would later write:

Prior to 1934, the annual message was delivered at the end of the calendar year, in December.

Prior to round one of the 1998 season, Carey booted six second half goals in the Ansett Cup Grand Final against St Kilda, earning himself the Michael Tuck Medal, as the best on ground in the pre-season Grand Final, and issuing an ominous warning to the rest of the competition that he was over his injury woes of the previous year.

Prior to 1912, challenges could take place at any time, given the appropriate rink conditions, and it was common for teams to defend the Cup numerous times during the year.

He took a year to consider what action to take, before writing to the Prior of Bath in October 1500 to explain that a large amount of the priory income would be dedicated to rebuilding the cathedral.

Prior to the lockout-shortened 1994 – 95 season, Quinn stepped down as head coach to focus on his managerial duties and was replaced by Rick Ley ; Vancouver finished with a. 500 record that year.

Prior to that year, Mount Rainier held the world record for snow accumulation at Paradise in 1978.

Prior to that year, the league operated as a Division II conference.

Prior to that year, Lotus had been restricted from exporting software that used encryption keys that were longer than 40 bits by United States law.

Prior to a vote of the residents in that year, the community had formerly been known as El Toro since the 1880s.

Following the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre, journalist Elinor Burkett spent a year following students and teachers in Prior Lake High School.

Prior to the 2010-2011 school year the school district had three school buildings, including A. W.

Prior to the year 1881 there were no railroads in Dade County.

Prior to the 2006-07 school year, high school students from here were sent to Lawrence High School in Lawrence Township as part of a now-ended sending / receiving relationship with the Lawrence Township Public Schools.

Prior to the 2011 school year Appalachia High School was merged with Powell Valley High School in neighboring Big Stone Gap to form Union High School.

Prior to the inception of the Empire Air Training Scheme ( as it was commonly known in Australia ), the RAAF trained only about 50 pilots per year.

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 this last year, Stilwell had performed meticulously in his classes, and had participated actively in football ( as quarterback ) and track.

Prior to the 58th edition it was published ' as demand required ', which meant that in some years three editions would be published and at other times more than a year would pass between editions.

Prior to Uchimura's arrival, William S. Clark, a graduate of Amherst College, had spent the year assisting the Japanese government in establishing the college.

Prior to introduction the reborn " TC1 " after a year of road testing received improvements to critical chassis components due to the harsher roads of rural Argentina and a lot of parts were re-selected for ease of availability although most of it still had to be imported from European Ford plants.

Prior to his convictions, Hovind spoke at churches, private schools, and other venues each year.