Prior to this game, the match against Richmond was abandoned because of rain and the last game was also abandoned.

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 1991, the Soviet economy was the second largest in the world, but during its last years it was afflicted by shortages of goods in grocery stores, huge budget deficits, and explosive growth in money supply leading to inflation.

Prior to its sale to News Corp, the last members of the board of directors of the company were: Christopher Bancroft, Lewis B. Campbell, Michael Elefante, John Engler, Harvey Golub, Leslie Hill, Irvine Hockaday, Peter Kann, David Li, M. Peter McPherson ( Chairman ), Frank Newman, James Ottaway, Elizabeth Steele, and William Steere.

* Prior to 3500 BCE ( prehistory – Stone Age and Chalcolithic ): hunter-gatherer societies slowly giving way to farming and herding societies, and early metal-working in the last thousand years ;

As reported by Baltasar de Ocampa and Friar Gabriel de Oviedo, Prior of the Dominicans at Cuzco, both eyewitnesses, the Sapa Inca raised his hand to silence the crowds, and his last words were ;

Prior to the last challenge, the remaining players partake in a memorial activity appropriate for the theme of the show, where they pay respect to the players who have been eliminated previously.

Prior to 1949, however, the Supreme Court did not constitute the court of last resort ; litigants could appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.

Prior to the end of the last ice age the Purbeck Hills were continuous with the Isle of Wight and the Frome would have continued east through what is now Poole Harbour and Poole Bay, into The Solent, collecting the Stour, Beaulieu, Test and Itchen, before flowing into the Channel east of what is now the Isle of Wight.

Prior to the musical depiction of his execution, there is a brief, nostalgic recollection of the idée fixe in a solo clarinet, as though representing the last conscious thought of the soon to be executed man.

Prior Robert Pursglove, the last prior of Gisborough Priory

Prior to Spence again departing and the group again breaking up, the group performed a few concerts to support the album, most notably, during the last days of the Fillmore East.

Prior to the use of the Toyota Tundra silhouette in the Craftsman Truck Series, MG was reported as the last foreign brand to be used in NASCAR.

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 last Ice Age, the River Thames followed a more northerly route to the North Sea, from Reading via Marlow, Chorleywood, St Albans, Hertford and along the present Suffolk-Essex border.

Prior to the 9 / 13 game, the last ESPN telecast to encounter weather problems was on October 2, 1999 ( a Sunday night ) when lightning halted Seattle Seahawks at Kansas City Chiefs during the second quarter.

Prior to this, the last time it had been removed had been when the city was struck by a cholera epidemic in the 1930s.

Prior to 1988, the last time the procedure had been used was during a 1942 filibuster over civil rights legislation.

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 stated his desire to return to the big leagues, four years after last being on a major league squad ; he hoped to catch on with the Rangers as a long / middle relief pitcher.

He was succeeded as Grand Prior by Sir William Weston, the last Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in England before the dissolution.

Prior to the 2006 election, Victorian parliamentary elections could be held any time at the discretion of the government in the last year of their four year term of office.

Prior to the Cats ' job, his last managerial job was with the Delmarva Shorebirds, the Class-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles in 2003.

Prior to the Akkadian period the progressive salinisation of the soils, produced by poorly drained irrigation, had been reducing yields of wheat in the southern part of the country, leading to the conversion to more salt-tolerant barley growing.

Prior to the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, the civil war in Afghanistan produced cross-border effects that threatened to destabilize Tajikistan's fragile and hard-won peace.

Prior to World War I, most of the cordite used by the British Government was produced in its own factories.

Prior to this, there was an Australian version of Second Chance that aired in 1977 on Network Ten hosted by Earle Bailey and Christine Broadway and also produced by Grundy.

Prior to the use of matches, fires were obtained using a burning glass ( a lens ) to focus the sun on tinder, a method that could only work on sunny days, or by igniting tinder with sparks produced by striking flint and steel.

Prior to the December 2001 merger of SCI Systems and Sanmina, Dish Network receivers were produced at factories in Huntsville, Alabama and Fountain, Colorado.

Prior to Kids Incorporated, Lynch and Biller created and produced a long-running music video series for TBS, Night Tracks.

Prior to the tupelo bloom, all earlier season honeys are stripped from the bees to avoid contamination with lesser grades produced earlier.

Prior to Khosrau's tax reforms, taxes were collected based on the yield that the land had produced.

Prior to his first marriage, he had a relationship with the Vulcan priestess, T ' Rea, which produced Sarek's first son Sybok, a character not developed until the fifth feature film in the late 1980s.

While recording the album, the five members were all living in the same house, an arrangement that produced considerable tensions particularly between Hart and Prior on the one hand and the Woods on the other.

Prior to signing with Columbia, the group had recorded several tracks in Oakland, California produced by Dwayne Wiggins of Tony!

Prior to Friends, she appeared in at least two produced network pilots: NBC's Just Temporary ( also known as Temporarily Yours ) in 1989, playing Nicole ; and CBS ' Close Encounters ( also known as Matchmaker ) in 1990, playing a Valley girl.

Prior to their introduction, mass produced automotive finishes were limited in colour, with Japan Black being the fastest drying and thus most popular.

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 this bulletin, the programme in the slot was Powerhouse, a political news programme, also produced by ITN.

Prior to this, aircraft were produced under the name of the subsidiary company ( e. g. Hawker Hurricane, Hawker Sea Hawk, Gloster Javelin, Gloster Meteor ).

Prior to 1884, all the Shays Lima produced weighed 10 to 15 tons each and had just two cylinders.

The region produced no significant bands in the electric folk movement of the 1970s but can claim one of the most significant figures, as Maddy Prior was brought up in Blackpool.

Prior to 1955, the list was produced either quarterly or semiannually.

Prior to 2003, the CHWI newscasts were produced entirely out of studios at CFPL, and presently the weekend newscasts are simulcast with CFPL.

Prior to his work on soma, theologians had interpreted the Vedic and Magian practices to have been based on alcoholic beverages that produced inebriation.

Prior to this date, some developmental university radio projects had previously produced and aired programs on commercial radio stations, and CJRT-FM, a campus radio station of the instructional type, had been on air since 1949.

Prior to the film's release in Japan, Panasonic produced a cell phone identical to the one Cloud uses in the film ; the phone contained several features related to Advent Children such as wallpapers and ringtones.