Prior to the official engagement announcement, he abandoned his Greek and Danish royal titles, converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Anglicanism, and became a naturalised British subject, adopting the surname Mountbatten from his British maternal grandparents.

Prior to the announcement, the project was kept under considerable secrecy, and was known only as " Project Gorilla " while Hyperion made several purchase agreements on land north and east of Elk Point.

Prior to this announcement, made in Spring 2007 at Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, Intel had very closely guarded who had access to the FSB, only allowing Intel processors in the CPU socket.

Prior to the 2011 announcement, the IRB had contemplated adding two stops to the previously eight-event circuit.

Prior to the start of the festival, Lee wrote an e-mail to the publicist of the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, copying in other comedians, in response to the announcement of a poll to find the public's favourite act from 30 years of the award, which was previously known as the Perrier Award.

Prior to the formal announcement, store employees saw weekly shipments shrink and delivery schedules went from 3 days per week to one.

Prior to Richard Nixon's announcement of his candidacy, Pat's brother Tom Ryan said, " Pat told me that if Dick ran for governor she was going to take her shoe to him.

Prior to Major League Baseball's announcement of the Montreal Expos move to Washington, Puerto Rico and San Juan made an effort to lure the Expos franchise to the island territory permanently.

Prior to the announcement, they were forced to defend their decision to not make the game a full retail release, as they received backlash from disappointed fans.

Prior to this announcement Allingham often said that he tried not to think about the prospect, but has also been quoted as saying " I don't mind — as long as it's not me.

Prior to departure when the pilot closes the doors, an announcement asks guests to " Please stand clear of the doors.

Prior to the 1998 Winter Olympics an announcement was made that NHL would shut down for two and a half weeks to allow its players to participate in the international tournament for the first time.

Prior to the announcement, more than 25, 500 Western Australians signed a petition in support of their state's bid.

Prior to the end of the year, Johnson made an ' announcement ' saying he was happy with his new career in broadcasting.

Prior to the official announcement of the event, many news sources ( see e. g. ) referred to the event as Live Aid 2.

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Prior to this announcement, he stated he would remain at the club as a youth coach.

Prior to the announcement of the launch date, the station's DJs began providing live spiels again every top of the hour since October 12.

Prior to the TATT announcement of which companies received licenses, both Digicel and Cingular Wireless had announced a deal where Digicel will acquire from Cingular their entire Caribbean and Bermuda-based wireless networks and licenses, thus leaving only Laqtel and Digicel as new entrants for Trinidad and Tobago.

Prior to LSI, he had been with Intel for 14 years.

Prior to Intel, there had been substantial disagreement as to the availability of Section 1782 Discovery.

Prior to the standardization of rapid radiosity calculation, some graphic artists used a technique referred to loosely as false radiosity by darkening areas of texture maps corresponding to corners, joints and recesses, and applying them via self-illumination or diffuse mapping for scanline rendering.

Prior to British occupation, the bay was referred to as Walthenham Harbor.

Prior to the rise of Kizzuwatna, the heart of that territory in Cilicia was first referred to by the Hittites as Adaniya.

Prior to the Babylonian exile, the names of only four months are referred to in the Tanakh:

Prior to Keynes, a situation in which aggregate demand for goods and services did not meet supply was referred to by classical economists as a general glut, although there was disagreement among them as to whether a general glut was possible.

Prior to its creation as the Territory of the Saar Basin by the League of Nations after World War I, the Saarland ( or simply " the Saar ", as is frequently referred to ) did not exist as a unified entity.

Prior to the 19th century, suburb often referred to the outlying areas of cities where work was most inaccessible — implicitly, where the poorest people had to live.

Prior to that event, the vessel is referred to as " USS Name ," but afterward the " USS " is dropped and it is referred to as " ex-Name.

Prior to the Middle Ages, the Visigoths, as well as other Germanic peoples, followed what is now referred to as Germanic paganism.

When the fallacy of begging the question is committed in more than one step, it is sometimes referred to as circulus in probando or reasoning in a circle but incorrectly so, if this fallacy is considered under the definition Aristotle gave in Prior Analytics.

Prior to being the National ERO, NERC's guidelines for power system operation and accreditation were referred to as Policies, for which compliance was strongly encouraged yet ultimately voluntary.

Prior to the 15th century English speech in Scotland was known as " English " ( written Ynglis or Inglis at the time ), whereas " Scottish " ( Scottis ) referred to Gaelic.

Prior to being renamed the Vanyar, the First Kindred were referred to in manuscripts as the Lindar (' Singers ').

Prior to this time, the Assyrians referred to Tarsus as Tarzi.

Prior to the dissolution of the Sainte-Chapelle in 1803, following the French Revolution, the term " la Sainte-Chapelle royale " also referred not only to the building but to the chapelle itself, the Sainte-Chapelle ( choir ).

Prior to the mid 19th century, mariners referred to these animals as mermaids.

Prior to that the concept " generation " had generally referred to family relationships, not broader social groupings.

" Prior to this modern meaning, " enharmonic " referred to relations in which ( using traditional notation ) there is no exact equivalence between a sharpened note and the flattened note., as in enharmonic scale.

Prior to their encounter with Europeans, the Guaraní referred to themselves simply as Abá, meaning " men " or " people.

Prior to the introduction of a new city charter on June 20, 1984, council members in Windom were referred to as alderpersons.

Prior to 1986, Chestnut Ridge was an unincorporated area within the town of Ramapo often referred to as " South Spring Valley " ( its fire district ), as many postal addresses carried the Spring Valley designation.

Prior to this point is was often referred to as South Taylorsville.

Prior to the 18th century, private property usually referred to land ownership.

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.