Prior to her marriage, Anderson's mother had briefly attended the Virginia Seminary and College in Lynchburg and had worked as a schoolteacher in Virginia.

Prior to commencing the mass murder at the University of Texas ( where he was a student ), Whitman had murdered both his wife and mother in Austin.

Prior to his release, he is interviewed by a local college newspaper reporter, to whom he recounts the brutal murder of his mother and her boyfriend with a Kaiser blade-during which scene he notes to the reporter that, " Some folks call it a sling blade.

Prior to the massacre, Barton had been a suspect in the 1993 beating deaths of his first wife, Debra Spivey, and her mother, Eloise Spivey, in Cherokee County, Alabama.

Prior to the official autopsy reports being released publicly, Haim's mother stated that the coroner had given her a " courtesy call " to state his preliminary findings that Haim died of pulmonary edema and was suffering from an enlarged heart and water in the lungs.

Prior to joining the army, Miranda's mother ran off with a man and left her alone.

As the seven-hour play progresses, Prior is visited by ghosts and an angel who proclaim him to be a prophet ; Joe finds himself struggling to reconcile his religion with his sexuality ; Louis struggles with his guilt about leaving Prior and begins a relationship with Joe ; Harper's mental health deteriorates as she realizes that Joe is gay ; Joe's mother, Hannah, moves to New York to attempt to look after Harper and meets Prior after a failed attempt by Prior to confront Hannah's son ; Harper begins to separate from Joe whom she has depended upon and finds strength she was unaware of ; and Roy finds himself in the hospital, reduced to the companionship of the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg and his nurse, Belize, a former drag queen and Prior's best friend, who meanwhile has to deal with Louis's constant demands for updates on Prior's health.

Prior to 1997, it also included all persons who had an ethnic Fijian mother but a non-Fijian father, as ethnic identity was defined according to the male line, a fact which caused considerable resentment among the large numbers of " Part Europeans " ( who had a European father or paternal grandfather ) and " Chinese Fijians " ( whose father or paternal grandfather was Chinese ).

Prior to this, the mother and father of many children had been unable to marry each other because one or the other was already legally bound, by civil or canon law, in a non-viable earlier marriage that did not admit of divorce.

Prior to the creation of USSOCOM each service's special operations forces operated under the direction of their mother service.

Prior to an internal propaganda film released after ascension of Kim Jong-un, there were three attempts made to idolize Ko, in a style similar to that associated with Kang Pan-sŏk, mother of Kim Il-sung, and Kim Jong-suk, mother of Kim Jong-il and the first wife of Kim Il-sung.

Prior to modern surgery, ectopic pregnancy invariably caused the deaths of both mother and baby.

Prior to the development of modern surgery ( caesarean section ), such a complication would lead to the death of the mother, the baby or both.

Prior to the age of 7, children are also always given custody with the mother, and when they are older, they can choose to live with either parent.

Prior to the introduction of Banks dories, fish were caught with handlines from the mother ship alone.

Huddleston's order asked him to return to England in 1956, where he worked as the master of novices at the CR's Mirfield mother house in West Yorkshire for two years, and then Prior of the Order's branch priory in London where he remained until his election as a bishop.

Prior to the wedding, she had her ears pierced for the very first time especially to be able to wear a pair of antique diamond earrings that originally belonged to her adoptive grandmother, and that her adoptive mother had worn on her wedding day.

Prior to this she had said that he knew pain in losing his mother.

Prior to Ballard's birth, his mother had an experience that led her to believe her son would be an apostle.

Prior to serving in the Legislature, she was a fundraiser for the unsuccessful United States Senate campaign of her mother Chellie Pingree, who now represents Maine's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

Prior to coaching at the University of Illinois, Zuppke coached at Muskegon High School in Muskegon, Michigan and Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois, where he tutored future Pro Football Hall of Famer George Trafton.

Prior to leaving Mahallat, Hasan Ali Shah equipped himself with letters appointing him to the governorship of Kerman.

Prior to Kidd returning to New York City, he learned that he was a wanted pirate, and that several English men-of-war were searching for him.

Prior to the elections in 2001 Chiluba tried to change the constitution to allow him to run for a third term.

For example, there is a story that at the Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346, the Prior of the Abbey at Durham received a vision of Cuthbert, ordering him to take the corporax cloth of the saint and raise it on a spear point near the battlefield as a banner.

Prior to the recording of their fourth album Burning from the Inside ( 1983 ) Peter Murphy was stricken with pneumonia, which prevented him from contributing much to the album.

Whatever the case, in the words of Barker's character Billy Prior, Rivers's experience was traumatic enough to cause him to " put his mind's eye out ".

Prior to this, Hrungnir had been drunkenly boasting of his desire to, amongst other things, kill all of the gods except Freyja and Sif, whom he wanted to take home with him.

Prior to the 2008-09 season opener, the Blackhawks named Toews, at 20 years and 79 days, as the new captain, succeeding the traded Lapointe and making him the third-youngest captain at the time of appointment.

Prior to Achilles ' entrance, Penthesilea had tried to fight Telamonian Ajax but he had merely laughed off her attempts, thinking her unfit to face him.

His personality reflects more modern, pragmatic attitudes and progressive ethics than those of his time, which often puts him in conflict with his brethren, particularly with his superior Prior Robert and Robert's clerk Brother Jerome, who disapprove of Cadfael for his casual attitude toward rules and for the privileges that are allowed him by their Abbot.

Prior to assuming office, Rosselló announced his intentions to remove Senate President Kenneth McClintock and be elected to replace him.

Prior to recording the song and to get into the mood, she requested Moroder to turn off the lights while they sat on a sofa with him inducing her moans and groans.

Prior to this literary assault Barnes had written a sonnet for Harvey's anti-Nashe pamphlet Pierces Supererogation ( 1593 ), in which he labelled Nashe a confidence trickster, a liar, a viper, a laughing stock and mere " worthless matter " who should be flattered that Harvey even deigned to insult him.

The veterinary surgeon Osmer, as quoted by Prior, described him in the following manner: " There never was a horse ( at least, that I have seen ) so well entitled to get racers as the Godolphin Arabian ; for, whoever has seen this horse must remember that his shoulders were deeper, and lay farther into his back, than those of any horse ever yet seen.

Prior to the incident, Warren had not seen him since the divorce.

Prior to the establishment of official rules by the Afghan Olympic Federation the sport was mainly conducted based upon rules such as not whipping a fellow rider intentionally or deliberately knocking him off his horse.

Prior thereto, the show's credits listed him as " Edward Windsor.

Prior to the battle, Richard is visited by the ghosts of his victims, all of whom tell him to " Despair and die!

Prior to the taping, however, a " sloppy " stage hand, at the request of drummer Keith Moon ( who allegedly bribed him with a bottle of whiskey ), had overloaded Moon's kick drum with gun powder.

Prior to her combat with Talbot, he exclaims, " Devil or devil's dam, I'll conjure thee ./ Blood will I draw on thee – thou art a witch –/ And straightway give thy soul to him thou serv ' st " ( 1. 6. 5 – 7 ).

Nicholas Felton, Bishop of Ely, nevertheless made him his chaplain, and gave him the living of St Mary, Swaffham Prior, which he held till 1626.

Prior to a discussion of his raids against the Japanese positions in the Marshall Islands, Halsey told the young midshipmen before him, " Missing the Battle of Midway has been the greatest disappointment of my career, but I am going back to the Pacific where I intend personally to have a crack at those yellow bellied sons of bitches and their carriers ," to the rousing applause of the assembled midshipmen.