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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.
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Prior and Bosman
Prior to the famous trial, Bosman played for Belgian first division club Standard de Liège and RFC Liège and won 20 caps for Belgium at youth level.
Prior and ruling
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 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 his resignation, Kingsley and the ruling Conservative party disagreed over whether fees paid to attend political conventions should be counted as political donations.
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 and professional
Prior to the 1950s, the various stages of the recording and marketing process had been carried out by different professionals within the industry – A & R managers found potential new artists and signed them to their labels ; professional songwriters created new material ; publishing agents sold these songs to the A & R people ; staff engineers carried out the task of making the recordings in company-owned studios.
Prior to 1950, professional baseball in Japan was the Japanese Baseball League.
Prior to entering politics, Johnson was a professional basketball player in the NBA, playing point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Phoenix Suns.
Prior to the debut of professional football in the city, an amateur team from Canton was mentioned as being a superior team in Stark County, Ohio.
Prior to his broadcast career, Cherry was a professional hockey player and National Hockey League coach.
Prior to turning professional, Shavers had a short but notable amateur career.
Prior to the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the United States Soccer Federation fulfilled promises to FIFA by aiding in the foundation of a new professional league.
Prior to the Minnesota Thunder forming in 1990 Minnesota had two former professional soccer teams.
Mark William Prior ( born September 7, 1980 in San Diego, California ) is an American professional baseball pitcher.
Prior to the 1960s, it acted as the sole governing body for most of professional wrestling, operating as a talent and brand name franchiser for the inter-regional " territory " system.
Prior to dedicating his professional life to politics, Hagen was CEO at Tate & Lyle Norway from 1970 to 1974, Consultant of Finansanalyse from 1977 to 1979, and economic policy consultant in the oil industry from 1979 to 1981.
Prior to doctoral studies, he was " a professional football player, print and television journalist, academic English teacher and world-traveller ".
Prior to the resolution of the 2004 – 05 lockout, the NHL was the only major North American professional sports league that had no luxury tax, revenue sharing, salary cap, or salary floor.
Prior to the 2003 season, Alou was named manager of the Giants, the team where he began his professional baseball career, replacing Dusty Baker who had left to manage the Chicago Cubs.
Prior to 1920, no national professional football league existed, and play was scattered across semi-pro and professional leagues in the upper midwest.
Prior to this there was no professional archaeological unit responsible for recording remains prior to destruction, though several individuals and volunteers did carry out important work.
Prior to the Senate, Eric served on the Raleigh City Council for two terms and has spent most of his professional life focused on public policy issues.
Prior to becoming a politician, she worked for a major Canadian life insurance company as a group insurance executive and a time as an office manager of a family-owned professional practice.
Prior to the NEA's founding, teachers had formed professional associations in 15 individual states, but there was no cohesive national association uniting them.
Prior to playing as a professional, he played three years of soccer for the University of Virginia where he was named the best player in college soccer and awarded the Hermann Trophy in 2002 after scoring 25 goals ( a school record ) and 4 assists for the Cavaliers.
Prior to his appointment with AURA, Dr. Smith served 14 years as a professional staff member in various capacities on the House Committee on Science.
Prior to Wattana becoming a professional, snooker had been dominated by British ( and to a lesser extent Irish, Canadian and Australian ) players.
Prior to his career in professional wrestling Hellwig was an amateur bodybuilder, competing in a number of NPC contests and winning the 1984 NPC Mr. Georgia crown.
Prior and clubs
Prior to the season, Frank Robison, the Spiders owner, bought the St. Louis Browns, thus owning two clubs at the same time.
Prior to the 1899 season, Frank Robison, the Spiders owner, bought the St. Louis Browns, thus owning two clubs simultaneously.
Prior to 1947, the only definition of first-class cricket had been one in Great Britain that dated from a meeting at Lord's in May 1894 between the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) committee and the secretaries of the clubs involved in the official County Championship, which had begun in 1890.
Prior to then, Essendon had ( and still have ) one of the worst records amongst current AFL clubs against Geelong in recent times, having only beaten the Cats once since 2003.
Prior to the 2006 World Cup, the G-14 members demanded a " fair percentage " of receipts from tournaments, such as the World Cup, to compensate for the clubs releasing players to compete in these tournaments.
Prior to the 2011 – 12 season, clubs could get relegated to the Kent County League, although in practice this rarely happened.
Prior to the 2005 – 06 season, the competition was open to all English clubs.
Prior to the start of the 1948 – 49 season the league was expanded to 16 clubs, largely through the addition of the ' A ' teams of four London clubs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United.
" Prior to the creation of the draft NHL teams would sponsor amateur teams and players, pre-empting other NHL clubs from acquiring new, young talent, and limiting amateur players ' prospects in the NHL to the team which sponsored them.
Prior to this show, few if any unsigned bands played local high profile clubs like the Whisky and The Roxy.
Prior to schism of 1895 which led to the formation of the Northern Rugby Union, Wakefield Trinity participated nine times in thirteen years in the final of the Yorkshire Cup ( T ' owd Tin Pot ), a trophy that is nowadays contested solely by rugby union clubs.
Prior to schism of 1895 which led to the formation of the Northern Rugby Union, Wakefield Trinity participated in the final of the Yorkshire Cup ( T ' owd Tin Pot ) nine times in thirteen years, a trophy that nowadays only rugby union clubs compete for.
Prior to coming to Scotland, he played for Italian clubs Bari, Mantova, Pescara, and Fiorentina, where he won the Italian Cup in 1996, as well as reaching the 1997 UEFA Cup Winners Cup semi-finals, losing out to the eventual winners Barcelona.
Prior to opening day the alumni teams of both clubs played each other in an exhibition game in front of a crowd of 30, 000 where all stadium functions were thoroughly tested.
Prior to the 2004 Copa Libertadores, Mexican clubs competed in two levels of competition — first against one another, and then against clubs from Venezuela — for spots in the main competition.
Prior to the 1996 season however, all of the American clubs disbanded, with one ( the Baltimore Stallions ) returning to Montreal.
Prior to 1954, Western clubs found limited success in the Grey Cup.
In 1966, he began performing with the Blackpool born Maddy Prior, touring English folk clubs.
Prior to this the only official representation to the university had been carried out through the office of Rector and rectorial clubs such as the Peel Club formed in 1836.
Prior to formation of the IRC, clubs from the eight Ivy League schools had competed in the Ivy Rugby Championship Tournament since 1969.
Prior to their popularity, the only outlet generally were folk clubs, which were not always friendly towards creators of new music, preferring traditional music.
Prior to coming to MLS, Zúñiga played for Mexican clubs Tigres, Chivas, Celaya, Puebla, and Veracruz.
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