Prior to Kennedy Center, it screened films in the auditorium of the National Gallery of Art.

Prior to 1969, the National League champion ( the " pennant winner ") was determined by the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season.

Prior to the revolution, power was concentrated in the hands of the President of the Republic and the National Democratic Party which retained a super-majority in the People's Assembly.

Prior to the 1960 Democratic National Convention, Stevenson announced that he was not seeking the Democratic nomination for president, but would accept a draft.

Prior to being the National ERO, NERC's guidelines for power system operation and accreditation were referred to as Policies, for which compliance was strongly encouraged yet ultimately voluntary.

Prior to the beginning of training camps, however, the NBA owners, led by commissioner David Stern, locked out the players in order to force a new collective bargaining agreement with the National Basketball Players Association ( NBPA ).

Prior to 1939, as a part of National Steel Car Ltd. of Hamilton, the concern had been one of a number of shadow factories set up in Canada to produce British aircraft designs in safety.

Prior offers by the National Park Service and the Trust for Public Land to buy the land were rejected.

Prior to the 1888 Republican National Convention, federal judge Walter Q. Gresham sought Fairbanks's help in seeking the nomination for U. S. President.

Prior to National Reviews founding in 1955, some conservatives believed that the American right was a largely unorganized collection of individuals who shared intertwining philosophies but had little opportunity for a united public voice.

Prior to his broadcast career, Cherry was a professional hockey player and National Hockey League coach.

Prior to the Mad Dogs, Fred Smith was part of an ownership group ( along with such entities as the estate of Elvis Presley ) that tried to get a National Football League team into Memphis in 1993.

Prior to that, Carlucci served in a variety of senior-level governmental positions, including Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Richard Nixon administration, Deputy Director of the CIA in the Jimmy Carter administration, and Deputy Secretary of Defense and National Security Adviser in the Reagan administration.

Prior to 2004, this mostly annual event was billed as the " ComedySportz National Tournament ".

Prior to the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, Wallace and his aides Bill Jones and Seymore Trammell met in the Jefferson Davis Hotel in Montgomery with Alabama Republican leader James D. Martin, who had narrowly lost the U. S. Senate election in 1962 to J. Lister Hill.

Prior to becoming president, he served as the Executive Secretary of the Department of Higher Education of the National Education Association for seven years.

Prior to her election as Colorado Attorney General, Norton served in Washington, D. C. as Associate Solicitor of the United States Department of the Interior, overseeing endangered species and public lands legal issues for the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service.

In 2003, Prior finished third in the National League's Cy Young Award voting after compiling an 18 – 6 win-loss record despite missing three starts after an on-field collision with Atlanta Braves second baseman Marcus Giles.

He also walked 100 batters and surrendered 24 home runs, also career highs, but was selected as a National League All-Star and helped lead the Cubs to the playoffs as one half of " Chicago Heat " along with fellow pitcher Mark Prior.

Prior to 1968 Canada also used the rank of midshipman, until the National Defence Act consolidated the Royal Canadian Navy with the Army and Air Force into a single military, called the Canadian Forces.

Prior to 2010, ELSTAT was a non-autonomous service of the Greek state known as the National Statistical Service of Greece ().

Prior to her appointment as Governor-General, she presided over a 1988 inquiry into issues related to cervical cancer and its treatment at Auckland's National Women's Hospital, known as the Cartwright Inquiry.

Prior to this appointment, he served as the United States Deputy Secretary of State and as the first ever Director of National Intelligence.

Prior to 1928, certain responsibilities of the Pensions and National Health portfolio were carried out by the now-defunct post of Minister of Soldiers ' Civil Re-establishment.

Prior to 1944, the responsibilities of the current Health portfolio were part of the now-defunct post of Minister of Pensions and National Health.

Prior to the 1980s when there were no 24-hour news channels competing with Front Page Challenge, each round of the game began with silent black and white newsreel footage of the news story in question while a narrator, not heard by the panelists, summarized it.

Prior to being president, he led the Eritrean People's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) to victory in May 1991, thus ending the 30-year-old armed liberation struggle for Eritrean independence.

Prior to the 1988 general elections, the Barisan Sosialis and the Singapore United Front were absorbed into Workers ' Party.

Prior to 1979, US-66 came in from Missouri as Front Street and turned south on Main Street before joining K-66.

Prior to his suspension, he was a crew member on the # 34 Front Row Motorsports Cup team.

* Prior, Robin Command on the Western Front: The Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson 1914-1918 Leo Cooper Ltd ( 30 Jul 2004 ) ISBN 1-84415-103-4

* Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson, " Command on the Western Front.

Prior to the coup, the National Front was made up of four main parties ; the Iran Party, which was founded in 1946 as a platform for Iranian liberals, including figures such as Karim Sanjâbi, Gholam Hossein Sadighi, Ahmad Zirakzadeh and Allahyar Saleh ); the Toilers Party of the Iranian Nation ( a left-wing party that advocated a non-communist socialist Iran, led by Mozzafar Baghai and Khalil Maleki ); and the Mojâhedine Eslâm ( an Islamic party led by Âyatollâh Âbol-Ghâsem Kâšâni ).

Prior to the switch to Global Shopping Network in April 1997, WNDS also ran three additional shows: High School Sports Review ( which looked at high school sports news in the station's broadcast region ), Sports Wrap ( a Sports Talk show discussing Boston sports ), and WNDS News Up Front ( a local newsmagazine ).

Prior and during the Kosovo War of 1999, Slovenian top government officials called repeatedly for Slobodan Milošević's compliance with NATO demands.

Prior to the birth of Prince Leka, the position of Heir Presumptive was held by Prince of Kosova ( Kosovo ) Tati Esad Murad Kryziu, born 24 December 1923 in Tirana, who was the son of the King's sister, Princess Nafije.

Prior to the 1999 Kosovo War, Kosovo Polje was the town in Kosovo in which the Serb population formed its largest percentage at 24 %.

Prior to the 1999 Kosovo War, there were many more Serbs living in the territory of Kosovo.

Prior to the Kosovo War of 1999, Albanized Roma registered themselves as Albanians.

Prior to Iraq, he served for six months in Kosovo and three months in Northern Ireland.

The monastery was destroyed and burnt down during World War II in 1941, at the hands of Albanian Fascist Party and Balli Kombëtar forces, the Prior Damaskin Bošković was killed, and Italian troops disassembled the two big bells and took them away in 1942.