Prior to the increased industrialization and modernization following the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the consumption of meat or animal products was " strikingly low.

Prior to independence, the French establishment and Catholic Church feared Opangault's radicalism and favored the rise of Fulbert Youlou, a former priest.

Prior to the establishment of the UPU, each country had to prepare a separate postal treaty with other nations it wished to carry international mail to or from.

Prior to the establishment of UNHCR, Fridtjof Nansen was the League of Nations High Commissioner of the Nansen International Office for Refugees, from 1922.

Prior to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish Catholics had no cemeteries of their own in which to bury their dead and, as the repressive Penal Laws of the eighteenth century placed heavy restrictions on the public performance of Catholic services, it had become normal practice for Catholics to conduct a limited version of their own funeral services in Protestant cemeteries.

Prior to this, he had defaulted to the dominant view of the Parisian music establishment, as typified by Le Sueur: that the symphony was a lesser form of composition that Mozart and Haydn had already taken as far as possible.

Prior to the establishment of the EPA, the federal government was not structured to comprehensively regulate environmental pollutants.

Prior to the establishment of the missions, the native peoples knew only how to utilize bone, seashells, stone, and wood for building, tool making, weapons, and so forth.

Prior to the establishment of the missions, the native peoples knew only how to utilize bone, seashells, bush, and wood for building, tool making, weapons, and so forth.

Prior to the Academy's establishment, air power advocates had been pushing for a separate air force academy for decades.

Prior to the establishment of ICANN for this purpose, IANA was administered primarily by Jon Postel at the Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ) of the University of Southern California ( USC ), under a contract USC / ISI had with the United States Department of Defense, until ICANN was created to assume the responsibility under a United States Department of Commerce contract.

Prior to the establishment of universities, European higher education took place for hundreds of years in Christian cathedral schools or monastic schools ( Scholae monasticae ), in which monks and nuns taught classes ; evidence of these immediate forerunners of the later university at many places dates back to the 6th century AD.

Prior to the establishment of The Office, Virgin Atlantic had its head office in Ashdown House on the High Street in Crawley.

Prior to the establishment of Penn's Philadelphia, New Castle was center of government.

Prior to the settlers ' establishment, the area was occupied by Native Americans as a hunting area and a burial ground.

Prior to the establishment of a series of dams, the river dropped in, from Dalton to Bath.

Prior to the establishment of Haddon Township High School in the 1960s, most Haddon Township students attended Collingswood High School ; however, some attended Haddonfield Memorial High School or Audubon High School.

Prior to the village's establishment on July 7, 1982, the area was an unincorporated section of the town of Rye.

Prior to establishment of its post office with the name “ Rattan ”, the area was called Sulphur Springs, Indian Territory.

Prior to the establishment of Northampton County in 1752, the area was part of Bucks County and the land currently occupied by South Whitehall was known as " the back part of Macungie " on the " Heidelberg District.

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 establishment of this mail route, the families received mail from Sipe Springs.

Prior to the establishment of the village of Harrisburg a post office named Big Darby Post Office had been established on March 13, 1834, and the name was changed to Harrisburgh Post Office on February 18, 1835.

Prior to the establishment of the York Racecourse on the Knavesmire, Acomb Moor was used for staging horse racing.

Prior to the establishment of official rules by the Afghan Olympic Federation the sport was mainly conducted based upon rules such as not whipping a fellow rider intentionally or deliberately knocking him off his horse.

Prior to that, party bosses often used the Vice Presidential nomination as a consolation prize for the party's minority faction.

Prior to the name change in 2009, the monetary prize amount was for the winner, and each finalist received £ 2500.

Previously, in 1939, she and Baker had won the Prior Memorial prize for an essay on Furphy.

Prior to the Jackpot's introduction a bonus prize, usually around $ 500 in value, was given to any contestant who spun a natural triple.

Prior to Weston's patronage of the award, the prize was for the winner and for the finalists.

Prior to Weston's patronage of the award, the prize was for the winner and for the finalists.

Since its inception, recipients of the prize have included Mother Teresa, Taizé Prior Roger Schutz, Evangelist Billy Graham, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Baba Amte.

Prior to reaching the playoffs, Billick forbade his players from using either the term " playoffs " or the term " Super Bowl ," with the idea of keeping them focused on winning each game instead of on their more distant prize.

In 1997, Prior collaborated with Swiss choreographers Jürg Koch and R. Lucia Baumgartner on the piece an die Materie and the music from this piece went on to win an honorary mention at the 1998 Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition and first prize in the 1998 EAR ( Hungarian Radio ) composition prize.

Prior to the outbreak of the 1998 – 2000 Eritrean – Ethiopian War, landlocked Ethiopia mainly relied on the seaports of Asseb and Massawa in Eritrea for international trade.

Prior to that, Del Rio was the Baltimore Ravens linebackers coach, participating in that capacity on the Ravens ' record setting championship 2000 defense.

Prior to the 2000 election the media typically alternated which color represented which party each presidential election cycle.

Prior to becoming Chairman, he served as the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from March 2000 to September 2001.

Prior to 2000, the United States armed forces trained together with the UPDF as part of the African Crisis Response Initiative.

Prior to Windows 2000, Windows NT ( and thus PE ) supported the MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC ISAs.

Prior to 2000, a County Sheriff's Department existed for the purpose of executing judicial warrants, prisoner transport, court security, Bailiff, and county and state executions.

Prior to 2000, a County Sheriff's Department existed for the purpose of executing judicial warrants, prisoner transport, and court security.

Prior to 2000, a County Sheriff's Department existed for the purpose of executing judicial warrants, prisoner transport, and court security.

Prior to the 2000 general elections, the PRI held its first primaries to elect the party's presidential candidate.

* Sebastian Wolff appointed Prior Administrator in January 2000

Prior to the 2000 census it was part of Perrine.

Prior publications introducing Western parents to this ancient practice include the booklet Conscious Toilet Training, by Laurie Boucke ( 1979 ), book Trickle Treat: Diaperless Infant Toilet Training Method, by Laurie Boucke ( 1991 ), a pamphlet entitled Elimination Timing, by Natec ( 1994 ), and the more extensive Infant Potty Training: A Gentle and Primeval Method Adapted to Modern Living, by Laurie Boucke ( 2000 ).

Prior to its incorporation in May 2000, it was a census-designated place ( CDP ).

Prior to the 2000 census, Alderwood Manor was counted as part of the Alderwood Manor-Bothell North CDP.

Prior to 2000 Schneider Electric's head office was in Boulogne-Billancourt.

Prior to annexation and the 2000 census, the northern portions of Bothell which lie in Snohomish County were considered a part of the Alderwood Manor-Bothell North census-designated place.

There were doubts over the future of the band when Prior announced her departure in 1997, but Steeleye continued in a more productive vein than for many years, with Woods as lead singer, releasing Horkstow Grange ( 1998 ), and then Bedlam Born ( 2000 ).

Prior to the release of their debut album in 2000, they had already contributed songs to film soundtracks and made featurings on high profile albums.

Prior to the release of Windows 2000, PWS was available as a free download as well as included on the Windows distribution CDs.

Prior to December 2000 it was known as the Metropolitan Lounge.

Prior to research on the mounds in 2000, it was thought that Lophelia required a hard substratum for attachment.

Prior to his election to the Governor's office, Hoeven served as the President of the nation's only state-owned bank, the Bank of North Dakota, from 1993 to 2000.

Coincidentally, Hawpe, when playing for LSU in the 2000 College World Series, had hit a three-run home run off Prior that eliminated USC from contention that year.