Prior to this — before the Second World War — he was content with the role of an apolitical liberal intellectual: " Now teaching at a lycée in Laon [...] Sartre made his headquarters the Dome café at the crossing of Montparnasse and Raspail boulevards.

Prior to the release of Windows Media Player in Windows 98 Second Edition, separate programs, CD Player, Deluxe CD Player, DVD Player and Media Player, were included in old versions of Microsoft Windows for playback of media files.

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 Second World War, the township was a resort area with trains coming from New York City to stations at Charlotteburg, Newfoundland, Oak Ridge in the south and Hewitt ( also known as Sterling Forest station ) and Awosting in the north.

Prior to the establishment of the Second Law, many people who were interested in inventing a perpetual motion machine had tried to circumvent the restrictions of First Law of Thermodynamics by extracting the massive internal energy of the environment as the power of the machine.

Prior to the start of the Second World War technology had improved so that it appeared that the interceptor mission would be effectively impossible.

Prior to the Second World War, Kaunas, like many other cities in eastern Europe, had a significant Jewish population.

Prior to the construction of The Pentagon during the 1940s, the Second Empire-style Ohio State Asylum for the Insane in Columbus, Ohio was reported to be the largest building under one roof in the U. S., though the title may actually belong to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, another Kirkbride Second Empire asylum.

Prior to 1827 the First Lord of the Treasury also held the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer unless he was a peer and thus barred from that office ; in this case, the Second Lord of the Treasury usually served as Chancellor.

Prior to the Second World War, virtually all hog troughs were homemade.

Prior to the Grimsby Turnpike Act of 1765 the road ( track ) through Swallow seems to have followed a line close to Chapel Lane ; a green road ran from Swallow to Rothwell until the Second World War when it was ploughed up to grow crops and never re-instated.

Prior to the Second World War Ringelblum worked for various social organizations.

Prior to the end of the Second World War the city was German and known as Hirschberg.

Prior to disestablishment, Second Fleet oversaw approximately 126 ships, 4500 aircraft, and 90, 000 personnel homeported at U. S. Navy installations along the East Coast.

Prior to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, it marked the end of a three-week period when church weddings were forbidden.

Prior to the establishment of the Empire, the territories of the Roman Republic had been divided among the members of the Second Triumvirate: Mark Antony, Octavian and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.

Prior to the reforms instituted after the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church mandated fasting ( only one full meal per day plus two partial, meatless meals ) on all Ember Days ( which meant both fasting and abstinence from meat on Ember Fridays ), and the faithful were encouraged ( though not required ) to receive the sacrament of penance whenever possible.

* Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception, Second Grand Prior of the order

Prior to the Second World War, there usually existed a division of racing for cars smaller and less powerful than Grand Prix racers.

Prior to the Second World War the British had built a large airfield to house a permanent RAF base, RAF China Bay and a fuel storage and support facilities for the Royal Navy and HMS Highflyer naval base based there.

Prior to the see of Constantinople's elevation to the dignity of Patriarch by the Second Ecumenical Council in 381, the primary jurisdiction in Asia Minor was the Patriarchate of Antioch.

Prior to the Second World War, the majority of immigrants to Australia had come from the United Kingdom-though most of Australia's Catholic immigrants had come from Ireland.

( See Pastoral Care of the Sick, USA numbers 243, 265 ) Prior to the Second Vatican Council, the Apostolic Pardon was called the Apostolic Blessing.

Prior to enactment of the Morrill Act in 1862, Michigan State University was chartered under Michigan state law as a state land-grant institution on February 12, 1855, as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, receiving an appropriation of of state-owned land.

Prior to the 1963 Act, it was chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

Prior to the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act, many hedge fund advisers voluntarily registered with the SEC.

Prior to the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 2007, the state-owned Liberia Telecommunications Corporation ( LIBTELCO ) held a legal monopoly for all fixed line services in Liberia, and remains the sole licensed fixed line telephone service provider in the country.

Prior to the statute's enactment in 1710, copying restrictions were authorized by the Licensing Act.

Prior to 1871 the government of the United States regularly entered into treaties with Americans of the United States but the Indian Appropriations Act of March 3, 1871 ( ch.

Prior to the Pension Protection Act, employers were held responsible for investment losses as a result of such automatic enrollments.

Prior to the Act, the main means of ensuring impartiality was by allowing legal challenges to the sheriff ’ s choices.

Prior to the Act, charters were granted by state legislatures who were under an immense amount of political pressure and could be influenced by bribes.

Prior to the Elkins Act, the livestock and petroleum industries paid standard rail shipping rates, but then would demand that the railroad company give them rebates.

Prior to 1975, jurisdiction over family law matters was held and exercised largely by state Supreme courts under the Matrimonial Causes Act.

Prior to the enactment of the Local Government Act 2001, the county was a unified whole despite the presence of two local authorities.

Prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, protests about local racial segregation which began quietly in Franklin Street restaurants led to mass demonstrations and disturbance.

Prior to the enactment of the Local Government Act 2001, the county was a unified whole despite the presence of two local authorities.

Prior to an Act of Parliament in 1824, Protestant deputies were required when the Earl Marshal was a Roman Catholic.

Among articles included were: " The Secession Tradition in America " by Donald Livingston ; " The Ethics of Secession " by Scott Boykin ; “ Nations by Consent: Decomposing the Nation-State ” by Murray Rothbard ; " Yankee Confederates: New England Secession Movements Prior to the War Between the States " by Thomas DiLorenzo ; " Was the Union Army's Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act?

Prior to the Act, most financial services companies were already offering both saving and investment opportunities to their customers.

Prior to the Act of Union 1800 which abolished the Irish parliament, the Lord Lieutenant formally delivered the Speech from the Throne outlining his Government's policies.

Prior to this, terrorism was defined in an Act as a footnote, such as Reinsurance ( Acts of Terrorism ) Act 1993 ( c. 18 ) section 2 ( 2 ):

Prior to this, the municipalities of Warrington and Salford established libraries in their museums, under the terms of the Museums Act of 1845. Warrington Municipal Library opened in 1848.

Prior to the Restoration, Japan's feudal fiefs all issued their own money, hansatsu, in an array of incompatible denominations, but the New Currency Act of Meiji 4 ( 1871 ) did away with these and established the yen as the new decimal currency, which had parity with the Mexican silver dollar.

Prior to enactment of the Act, universal service had been funded through implicit subsidies, levied as above-cost business rates, urban rates, and above-cost rates for the “ access charges ” that long distance carriers paid as intercarrier compensation to local telephone companies for originating and terminating their subscribers ’ long distance calls.

Prior to the Act, regulation of securities was chiefly governed by state laws, commonly referred to as blue sky laws.