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 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.

The remains of some of his soldiers were found in the nearby village of Cleeve Prior after fleeing from the battle of Evesham.

Prior to the 19th century the area now forming the Borough was practically unoccupied: very few of the present settlements were mentioned in the Domesday Book, although the village of Bexley has a charter dated 814CE.

Prior to its settlement by European and / or African people, on the site of this town was the Creek Indian village called " Tumkeehatchee ".

Prior to 1821, the village was known as Willimantic Falls, home to about twenty families and a single school district.

Prior to the plat of the village, there was an inn three-quarters of a mile east of the present site, called " Tantivy " or " TAN-TI-VY ".

Prior to its building, New Salem, which has always been the southeast corner of Franklin County, did not extend much further south than the village of Cooleyville, now along U. S. Route 202.

Horses baling straw circa 1900. The Dakota nation ceded land in 1851 and many relocated to Chief Shakopee's village — the current Shakopee-Mdewakanton Indian Reservation in nearby Prior Lake.

Prior to being an Ojibwe village, it was also a Mdewakanton Dakota village.

Seen as the sister city of Shakopee, Prior Lake was incorporated as a village in 1891, Prior Lake is one of the oldest southern metro cities to have been absorbed by suburban growth.

Prior to that time, the county business had been conducted from " Old Chariton ," a small village near the confluence of the Chariton and Missouri Rivers.

Prior to that, the area was known as Bloomingdale throughout the 19th century and was initially settled as a farming village starting about 1712 with the " Bloomingdale Forge " built shortly thereafter to take advantage of the iron in the hills.

Prior to European-American settlement, a major Cayuga Indian village, Chonodote, stood near the present-day site of Aurora village.

Prior to becoming a village, the area that constitutes modern day Brockport was primarily occupied by the Muoio Indian tribe ( A branch of the Seneca ).

Prior to the French and Indian War, a French trading post and block house was located on the site of the future village.

Prior to 1970, Indian Hill was incorporated as a village, but under Ohio law became designated as a city once its population was verified as exceeding 5, 000.

Prior to the industrial revolution, a " village smithy " was a staple of every town.

Prior to incorporation as a city, the village encompassed the entire area of two small townships.

Prior to the laying out of the village, the area was known as Darby Cross Roads.

Prior to being incorporated as the Village of Howard, the Town of Howard was commonly referred to as " Duck Creek " because of the Duck Creek waterway winding its way through the village.

Prior to 1974, it was a village in the Derwent Rural District, which was part of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Prior to the seventh century, the site was mainly occupied by small houses, formulating the occasional village.