Prior to and following the Embassy closure, the United States and Guinea-Bissau have enjoyed excellent bilateral relations.

Prior to closure, the district's schools were Drew Hunter High School and A. W.

Prior to the first closure experiment in Biosphere 2, initial tests were carried out in a smaller, 480 cubic meter onsite facility ( the " Test Module "), looking at potable water generation, atmospheric sealing, atmospheric expansion and contraction, and the behavior of life systems inside a closed ecological system.

Prior to its closure in 2009, the Valley of the Fallen was the third most visited site of the Patrimonio Nacional after only the Royal Palace of Madrid and El Escorial.

Prior to the closure of passenger traffic the airport was serving 12 million passengers per year.

Prior to the formal closure in 2009, FEER died many deaths — in 1992 when Bowring was forced to resign as editor ; in 2001 when it was merged with the Asian Wall Street Journal ; in 2004 when it ceased as a weekly and was published as a monthly after being downsized to a staff of two.

Lytham station, St Annes station and Ansdell & Fairhaven station all lie on the Blackpool South to Preston branch of the Blackpool Branch Lines. Prior to the closure of Blackpool Central in 1964 the Coast Road, as it was known, was the main line into Blackpool.

Prior to the eruption, USGS scientists convinced local authorities to close Mount St. Helens to the general public and to maintain the closure in spite of pressure to re-open it ; their work saved thousands of lives.

Prior to its original closure, the deck was open only on weekends, to prevent disruption to the law firm that has offices on the 32rd floor.

Prior to its closure in 1989, the College offered Associate's degrees in liberal arts and sciences, business and engineering.

Prior to closure, around two dozen bus routes ran through the tunnel.

Prior to its most recent closure in the fall of 2010, the resort boasted several chairlifts, including one high-speed detachable quad, as well as a hotel, condominiums and a large base lodge.

Prior to its closure, and before several changes of name, Cairnmartin Secondary School also served the greater Shankill area.

Prior to its closure the hall had become a meeting place for local artists, poets, folk musicians, and sculptors, including Arthur Dooley, Roger McGough, and Adrian Henri, forming what became known as the Liverpool Scene.

Prior to its closure, Pulse FM's owners commissioned an ' independent ' report which put Pulse on a par with currently licenced commercial stations such as FM104 and 98FM.

Prior to its closure, the Pine Point region of Scarborough was a barrier island, the only one in Maine.

Prior to closure of its scheduled routes, Sunshine Express employed over 40 people and was a Qantas partner airline.

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, environmentalists and others, including voters in St. Bernard Parish whom the canal was intended to help, called for its closure.

Prior to 2010 Turtle Lake Lodge had a store and rental cabins with some facilities ; since the closure of those operations, South Bay is the only beach on the lake with store / gas / restaurant & lounge operations.

Prior to its closure, the NHSIA was also responsible for overseeing the delivery of the ECDL (" European Computer Driving Licence ") qualification to NHS staff via a network of local, internal ECDL test centres.

Prior to the website's closure, ColdHeat featured products other than the soldering tool that use the same technology, including a cordless hot-melt glue gun called Freestyle.

Prior to its closure on 9 October 2011, Parramatta Correctional Centre was Australia's oldest serving correctional centre.

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Prior to the closure of Flint Central in 2009, Central won the overall series 41-39-1.

Prior to its temporary 2010-2012 closure, Opry Mills was a single level mall that contained over 200 stores ( although no department stores ), including Bass Pro Shops, Blacklion, Bed Bath & Beyond, Gibson Showcase, Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th, and Barnes & Noble.

Prior to the Rhineland Campaign the enemy had to be cleared from the Roer Triangle during Operation Blackcock.

Prior to this, Mr. Meale had been a member of the Socialist Campaign Group.

Prior to her election to Parliament, she was chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a UK pressure group ; she resigned in 1985.

Prior to the passage of the McCain-Feingold law, also known as the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, it was generally accepted that 527s were not covered by campaign finance laws.

Prior to April 30, 2005 the medal was awarded for service within Iraq and Afghanistan, but has been replaced with the Iraq Campaign Medal and Afghanistan Campaign Medal and now serves primarily as recognition for personnel who have deployed in support of the War on Terror to locations beyond Iraq and Afghanistan.

Prior to his election to the Victorian State Parliament in 1999, he was Assistant State Secretary 1988 had later State Secretary and Campaign Director of the Victorian ALP in 1994.

Prior to the Okpo Campaign, Yi mainly patrolled the seas near his Jeolla Province, to fortify is position before he began moving westward, due to the call for help from Admiral Won Gyun.

Prior to 2002, Camp Hyrule was limited to the 500-2000 registrants, thus causing intense competition and often overloading the servers.

Prior to the 2006 demise, Exabyte offered tape storage and automation solutions for servers, workstations, LANs and SANs.

Prior to the featured race, the stewards announced that apprentice James P. Verrone is suspended ten days for crowding horses and crossing the field sharply in two races on Wednesday.

Prior to meeting Mallowan, Christie had not had any extensive brushes with archaeology, but once the two married they made sure to only go to sites where they could work together.

Prior to the Normandy landings on D-Day in June 1944, the Allies knew the locations of all but two of the 58 German divisions on the Western front.

Prior movements had all originated in cities which were home to at least two teams.

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 Diego died, after two years in the mission field, on his return trip to Spain.

Prior to his departure, Oxford entered into two indentures.

Prior to Parsons ' departure from The Byrds, he had accompanied the two Rolling Stones to Stonehenge ( along with McGuinn and Hillman ) in the English county of Wiltshire, where Richards had a house near the ancient site.

Prior to the 386, the difficulty of manufacturing microchips and the uncertainty of reliable supply made it desirable that any mass-market semiconductor be multi-sourced, that is, made by two or more manufacturers, the second and subsequent companies manufacturing under license from the originating company.

Prior to the meiosis process the cell's chromosomes are duplicated by a round of DNA replication, creating from the maternal and paternal versions of each chromosome ( homologs ) two exact copies, sister chromatids, attached at the centromere region.

Prior to the December 1984 coup that brought Taya to power, the Mauritanian-Moroccan cooperation agency stated that relations between the two countries were on the mend in spite of alleged Moroccan complicity in a 1981 coup attempt and Mauritania's subsequent turn toward Algeria.

Prior to Stephen's alliance with Pepin, Rome had constituted the central city of the Duchy of Rome, which composed one of two districts within the Exarchate of Ravenna, along with Ravenna itself.

Prior to version 3. 0, Python had two kinds of classes: " old-style " and " new-style ".

Prior to the 1999 season, Clemens was traded to the New York Yankees where he won his only two World Series titles.

But two plays later, Packers defensive back Mike Prior intercepted a long pass that was intended for wide receiver Shawn Jefferson, and returned it 8 yards to the Green Bay 26-yard line.

Prior to the development of SLR, all cameras with viewfinders had two optical light paths: one path through the lens to the film, and another path positioned above ( TLR or twin-lens reflex ) or to the side ( rangefinder ).

Prior to 2012, the two losers of the knock-out rounds would race for the Bronze Medal ; this change was instituted to encourage performance from all qualifying teams since all would have a chance to race for a medal depending on their performance.

Prior to the " turn around ", each party regards the other party's clock to be recording time differently than his own, but the noted difference is symmetrical between the two parties.

Prior to the construction of a dam at the resurgence to feed water to the paper mill downstream, two more chambers ( the Fourth and Fifth ) were accessible.

Prior to signing the accords, Arafat — as Chairman of the PLO and its official representative — signed two letters renouncing violence and officially recognizing Israel.

Prior to his death, Lee told his then only two living instructors Kimura and Inosanto ( James Yimm Lee had died in 1972 ) to dismantle his schools.

( Prior to 2003, this was two rounds ; prior to 2001, it was three.

Prior to 2005, after the top two cars were set, the top 14 cars in the qualifying races advanced to the field, and then between six ( 1998 – 2003 ), eight ( 1995 – 97, 2004 ), or ten ( until 1994 ) fastest cars which did not advance from the qualifying race were added, and, since 1976, between one and seven cars were added by previous year's points performance and or championship, except for 1985, when no such car was eligible for a provisional starting spot, the only time that happened in the Daytona 500 from when the provisional was added in 1976 through 2004.

Prior to 2008, this event encompassed two jumps from the ski jumping normal hill, and 15 km cross country skiing.