Prior to the commencement of the invasion four Navy SEALs, Lt Edward S. Coughlin, EN-3 Timothy K. Eppley, ET-1 Randy L. Beausoleil, and PH-2 Chris Dye, swam underwater into the harbor on Draeger LAR-V rebreathers and attached C4 explosives to and destroyed Noriega's personal gunboat the Presidente Porras.

Prior to the commencement of incubation the parent will sit over the eggs without actually warming them.

Prior to the commencement of the 1940 season, internal problems were brewing between the key personalities at the club.

Prior to the commencement of the Morisco revolt, Aben Humeya had been a town councilor of Granada and had been under house arrest for pulling out a dagger in the city council.

Prior to the commencement of hostilities with Japan the 1st Armoured Division had been scheduled to deploy to the Middle East where it would be fully equipped and complete its training ( 1st Armoured Brigade was to embark for the Middle East in December 1941, with 2nd Armoured Brigade embarking in March 1942 ).

Prior to each commencement, the ASU Alumni Association hosts a ring ceremony where the university president presents class rings to recipients.

Prior to the commencement of the meetings, vocal anti-merger supporters chanted team songs and anti-merger slogans.

Prior to commencement of surgery, careful and detailed planning is required to identify vital structures such as the inferior alveolar nerve or the sinus, as well as the shape and dimensions of the bone to properly orient the implants for the most predictable outcome.

Prior to the commencement of the Perth-Mandurah rail line, Transperth operated two routes through Ferndale ( 877 and 878 ), which had linked the suburb to Cannington and Perth.

Prior to the commencement of the building of the theatre, a production of Undermilkwood by Dylan Thomas was staged in a tent on the site of the future theatre.

Prior to the commencement of the RRFLs inaugural rugby league championship in 1990, 3 teams, Moscow Magicians, Leningrad and Tiraspol were sent to England to learn the finer points of rugby league.

Prior to the commencement of league the two clubs would play each other annually on Boxing Day for the ' Moseley Trophy ' and on one occasion in 1972 the starting line up at the fixture included 16 internationals.

Prior to Fox News, Roberts was a co-anchor of CNN's morning program American Morning from 2007 to 2010.

Prior to CNN, Roberts served as Chief White House Correspondent at CBS from 1999 to 2006, and regularly anchored a Sunday-afternoon 3 p. m.

Prior to his death, there were many sources that Roberts was retiring, since he had taken a prominent public relations position at the Falstaff Brewing Company and the race in which he was killed was to be one of his final races of his career.

Prior to writing the episode, Roberts had been an audio and visual editor on the show.

Prior to 2000, the awards were given at the Origins Game Fair, and Charles Roberts Awards prior to 1987 are also considered to be Origins Awards.

Prior to her fame Roberts never found flaws with her red hair calling it a " prized possession " but after critics picked up on her image she saw it as a flaw with Roberts explaining " I hated it and I hated people judging me.

Prior to his involvement with environmental issues, Roberts worked for two decades in the fields of community organizing, university teaching, media, labour education, industrial relations and union administration.

Prior to naming Roberts, Bush reportedly considered a wide range of candidates.

Prior to this, he served as the 5th Vice President of Liberia under President Stephen Allen Benson from 1860 to 1864, and as the 3rd Secretary of State in the cabinet of Joseph Jenkins Roberts from 1854 to 1856.

Prior to Megrahi's second appeal, another four procedural hearings took place at the High Court of Appeal in Edinburgh between December 2007 and June 2008.

Prior to directing the Spider-Man films, Raimi lobbied to direct Batman Forever when Tim Burton was ousted from the director's chair, but was rejected in favor of Joel Schumacher, whose reputation at the time outshone Raimi's.

Prior to his sudden death in December 983, Otto II had installed Pope John XIV, a non-Roman who had served as Otto II's chancellor in Italy, on the chair of St. Peter.

Prior to the U. S. invasion in April 2003, Al-Numan was the Baath Party's regional command chair, responsible for West Baghdad.

Prior to being elected Pope, he was an unordained layman and was therefore ordained a bishop in order to enable him to ascend the papal chair, having previously been a consul and senator.

Prior to her gubernatorial administration, Lingle served as Maui County mayor, council member, and chair of the Hawaii Republican Party.

Prior to the building of the main organ, the cathedral had a chair organ, which was built by Robert Taunton in 1662.

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 taking up the post of chair of the CQC, Barbara Young was the chief executive of the Environment Agency ( 2000 – May 2008 ), an appointment which led to her becoming a non-affiliated member in the House of Lords ; previously she had taken the Labour Party whip.

Prior to this legislated date, 163 deaths had occurred in Kentucky's electric chair.

Prior to this, Ohio, the second state to adopt the electric chair as a means of execution, executed 315 people between 1897 and its last use in 1963.

Prior to his tenured appointment to the University of Pennsylvania, Pritchard taught at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, 1942 – 1954, as the chair of Old Testament History and Exegesis.

Prior to his time at State, he had served as the chair of the Institute.

Prior to 2005 the Mayor of Richmond was the City Council's chair, chosen by its members.

Prior to the 1984 Democratic National Convention, he was appointed by party chairman Paul G. Kirk to chair the " Fairness Commission ," one of many Democratic commissions created to reform the presidential nomination process.

Prior to teaching philosophy at the Free University, Zuidema held a chair of Calvinistic philosophy at the University of Utrecht.

Prior to joining the court, Fried held the chair of Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School.

Prior to the transportation, Chthon had noticed that Doctor Strange used Chthon's Darkhold to hold up the wobbly part of his chair.

Prior to his election, he was teacher liaison chair for the New Democratic Party.

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 this there had been no records of appeals to the Lords, and a committee had concluded that there was no precedent to give the Lords jurisdiction over equity matters, except when problems and cases were sent directly to Parliament ( as occasionally had been the case ).

Prior to founding Blum Capital, Blum was with Sutro & Co. for seventeen years, holding various positions including director, major stockholder and member of the executive committee.

Prior to 2003, the Legislative Council comprised 44 members from 22 two-member provinces until a 2001 constitutional committee recommended the council be re-organised to the current system.

Prior to his departure Castrén indicated he planned to return to Helsinki in six months and continue his work as leader of the metro committee.

Prior to joining the Clinton Administration she worked in Clinton's campaign as a member of the search committee for the Vice Presidential nominee and on the transition team.

Prior to that, there had been an equality unit in the Cabinet Office and a Cabinet committee, which were continued under the leadership under the new minister.

Prior to that, he was chairman of the Derg's committee for legal affairs.

Prior to the 2004 Hong Kong LegCo election, only 24 seats were directly elected, with the other six seats chosen by an 800-member election committee.

Prior to the passage of Medicare, the committee was studying health care insurance coverage for elderly American citizens.

Prior to her service in Congress, Hart served in the Pennsylvania Senate, where she chaired the finance committee.

Prior to becoming chairman of the Xinjiang region, Tiliwaldi's postings included deputy chief and chief of the Personnel Department for the Kashgar Prefecture, deputy commissioner of Kashgar, deputy secretary of Kashgar Prefectural Party Committee, commissioner of Kashgar, secretary-general for the Xinjiang Autonomous Regional Government, deputy political commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps of the Army, standing committee member of the CPC Xinjiang Autonomous Regional Committee and deputy secretary of the Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs under the CPC Xinjiang Autonomous Regional Committee.

Prior to leading the full committee, Gibbons chaired the subcommittee on trade.

Prior to the revolution, Gamal was deputy secretary-general of the then-ruling and now-dissolved National Democratic Party, and head of its influential policies committee.

Prior to 1993, one must go back to 1985 to find another successful discharge petition in which the process was carried to its conclusion, rather than the bill dying or the leadership allowing the bill out of committee ( since as noted above, some bills with pending petitions the leadership has simply relented on ).

Prior to this Jennie Elias has had various other political roles including being a London Area Officer, Vice-Chairman of Kensington and Chelsea Conservative Association and serving several times on the London mayoral selection committee.

Prior to American Revolutionary War, he was a delegate to all conventions for securing independence, and was a member of the committee that drew up the Declaration of Rights of January 7, 1789.

Prior to the event, the Expo 2008 host committee estimated that the expo event could generate 135 million euros in receipts for admission to the exhibition centre.

Prior to Eck's involvement, Cajetan had expressed his desire that the committee members examine the whole context of Luther's writings and specify careful distinctions among the various degrees of censure to be applied to Luther's teachings.

Prior to his election as Senate President, he served as Senate Minority Leader from 2001 to 2004 and he chaired the most important committee of the Senate of Puerto Rico: the Committee on Government and Federal Affairs, as well as the Joint Committee for the Córdova-Fernós Congressional Internships Program from 1993 to 2000.

Prior to his retirement, Melville headed a committee tasked with studying how to use fuel oil in Navy boilers instead of coal.