Prior to the Dominion War, the Tal Shiar and the Cardassian Obsidian Order secretly worked together to launch a pre-emptive strike on the Founder homeworld.

Prior to the launch of its HD feed in 2004, some sitcoms and drama series were presented in this format, but now reality, talk, and game shows ( American Idol being the lone exception, as it is presented in High Definition ) are only presented in the enhanced definition widescreen mode.

Prior to launch, Soyuz 1 engineers are said to have reported 203 design faults to party leaders, but their concerns " were overruled by political pressures for a series of space feats to mark the anniversary of Lenin's birthday.

Prior to the launch of the comics division, Disney management proclaimed their intention to quickly become a dominant presence in the comic book market, competing with industry leaders DC and Marvel.

Prior to the final launch of the Columbia, Anderson stated: " There's always that unknown.

Prior to launch, Columbia spent 103 days in the Orbiter Processing Facility.

Prior to the launch, Columbia had spent only 70 days in the Orbiter Processing Facility — a record checkout time.

Prior to the close of the sale, WGN-TV was one of two Chicago commercial television stations ( not counting network-owned stations ) to have never been involved in an ownership transaction ( WCIU is the other, having been owned by Weigel Broadcasting since its launch in 1964 ).

Prior to these attacks the missile's range was thought to be less than, but these attacks proved that the range exceeded with Kuwaiti military observers seeing that the missiles originated from the area and tracking them on radar along with US satellite imagery of the launch sites.

Prior to the launch of Major League Soccer in 1996, teams from Los Angeles played in the Western American Soccer League, the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League / A-League, winning ten league championships ( 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1974, 1976 ), seven Lamar Hunt US Open Cups ( 1958, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 ), four regional championships ( 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 ) and one international championship ( 1975 ).

Prior to launch, " x86-64 " and " x86_64 " were used to refer to the instruction set.

Prior to his launch almost nothing was made public about the Chinese astronaut candidates ; his selection for the Shenzhou 5 launch was only leaked to the media one day before the launch.

Prior to its launch, Sky Movies signed first-run deals with 20th Century-Fox, Warner Bros. Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Orion Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution Co.

Prior to the launch of Apple's Mac App Store, GarageBand was only available as a part of iLife, a suite of applications ( also including iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and iWeb ) intended to simplify the creation and organization of digital content.

Prior to 2011: TV3 Group initially proposed to launch two channels to appear on the OneVision pay television service.

Prior to the launch of The Late Show in January 1989, there was some scepticism as to whether or not the programme, running four nights per week on BBC Two in a late night slot after Newsnight, would be a success.

Prior to the Challenger disaster, this mission was slated to launch in March 1986 as STS-61-E. Jon McBride was originally assigned to command this mission, which would have been his second spaceflight.

Prior to the launch, an article in The Grocer trade magazine had mentioned that the source of the Dasani brand water was in fact treated tap water from Sidcup, a suburban development in London.

Prior to the Challenger accident, Gardner was chosen to be a member of the first Shuttle mission to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Prior to the launch of the new station, GWN held a commercial monopoly on the market.

Prior to launch, and continuing through the early part of the mission, flight controllers on the ground were monitoring an anomaly within the electrical power generating Fuel Cell # 2 ( of three ), making it appear that oxygen and hydrogen might be starting to uncontrollably mix, which could lead to detonation.

Prior to its launch on 17 January 1983, BBC regional radio broadcasting for Cornwall amounted to the breakfast show ' Morning Sou ' West ' on the AM frequencies of Radio 4 in Devon and Cornwall.

Prior to this, the station generally stopped broadcasting at around 6pm, and handed over to BBC Radio 2 which was carried on the station's frequencies until the following morning although for the three years prior to the launch of Night Network, Radio Humberside had broadcast the Yorkshire-wide early evening specialist music programmes which were also carried on Radios York, Leeds and Sheffield.

Alastair Cook scored 189 and both Ian Bell and Matt Prior made centuries.

Prior to partition, both regions had cholera pathogens with similar characteristics.

Prior to the 1996 Australian Grand Prix, an earlier configuration of the current circuit was used for both the 1953 and 1956 Australian Grands Prix.

Prior to the introduction of the Latin term, incest was known in Old English as sibbleger ( from sibb ' kinship ' + leger ' to lie ') or mǣġhǣmed ( from mǣġ ' kin, parent ' + hǣmed ' sexual intercourse ') but in time, both words fell out of use.

Prior to the twentieth century, Laotian kingdoms and principalities encompassed areas on both sides of the Mekong, and Thai control in the late nineteenth century extended to the left bank.

Prior to the independence as a modern state in 1947, the country was both independent and under various colonial empires throughout different time periods.

Prior to 1894, both Taiwan and mainland China were ruled by the Qing Empire.

Prior to this discovery, this origin had been suspected from the similarity of the grapes ' names and the fact that Cabernet Sauvignon shares similar aromas with both grapes — such as the black currant and pencil box aromas of Cabernet franc and the grassiness of Sauvignon blanc.

Prior to 1953, a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting combined both breaking and investigative reporting under one category.

Prior to its emergence, the activity of posing hypothetical questions that employed subjunctive reasoning had existed for a very long time ( for both scientists and philosophers ).

Prior to the film's release, executive producer and Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs stated " If Toy Story is a modest hit — say $ 75 million at the box office — we'll and Disney both break even.

Prior to their dissolutions, both Air Gabon and Gabon Express were headquartered on the grounds of Libreville International Airport.

Prior to its merger with Standard Oil of California, Gulf was one of the chief instruments of the legendary Mellon family fortune ; both Gulf and Mellon Financial had their headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

As reported by Baltasar de Ocampa and Friar Gabriel de Oviedo, Prior of the Dominicans at Cuzco, both eyewitnesses, the Sapa Inca raised his hand to silence the crowds, and his last words were ;

Prior to 1922, Doctors McCray and McClintic both died while doing research on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

Prior to the role of ' Trapper John ', Rogers appeared on television in various roles in both dramas and sitcoms such as The Invaders, The F. B. I., Gunsmoke, Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C., The Fugitive, and had a small supporting role in the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke.

Prior to 1792, the region was claimed by both New York and Pennsylvania, so no county demarcations were made until the federal government intervened.

Prior to founding Mount Holyoke, Lyon contributed to the development of both Hartford Female Seminary and Ipswich Female Seminary.

Prior to 1983, canon law required banns to be announced, or " asked ", in the home parishes of both parties on three Sundays or Holy Days of Obligation prior to the marriage.

Prior to the annulment, she had been socially very active and this bothered both her and her husband considerably, although many in society were still prepared to receive her and to press her case sympathetically.

Prior to commencing the mass murder at the University of Texas ( where he was a student ), Whitman had murdered both his wife and mother in Austin.

Prior to this, only two land sales had been recorded, both for lumbering or speculative purposes.

Prior Lake is an extremely popular lake for both fishing and water sports.

The terms " abbey " and " priory " can be applied to both monasteries and canonries and distinguish those headed by an Abbot from the lesser dependent houses headed by a Prior.

a ) Religious institutes, both male and female, formally aggregated to the Order by a decree of the Prior General ( this would include the Augustinians of the Assumption, the Sisters of St Rita, etc.