Prior to the Marian reforms ( see below ) the heavy infantry was subdivided, according to experience, into three separate lines of troops:

Prior to this date Fisher had denounced various abuses in the Roman Catholic Church, urging the need of disciplinary reforms.

Prior to the reforms of Pius XII ( which reduced the proportions further ), 1 % of the Old Testament and 16. 5 % of the New Testament had been read at Mass.

Prior to Khosrau's tax reforms, taxes were collected based on the yield that the land had produced.

Prior to the 2009 constitutional reforms, if no candidate received half the popular vote, the president was chosen by a vote in a joint legislative session from among the top two candidates ( prior to 1995, the top three candidates were eligible ).

Prior to this, the only Tory / Conservative party in Scotland was the official Conservative Party, which had never achieved parity with the dominant Whig and Scottish Liberal Party ascendancy since the election reforms of 1832.

Prior to Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms a work unit acted as the first step of a multi-tiered hierarchy linking each individual with the central Communist Party infrastructure.

Prior to the reforms instituted after the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church mandated fasting ( only one full meal per day plus two partial, meatless meals ) on all Ember Days ( which meant both fasting and abstinence from meat on Ember Fridays ), and the faithful were encouraged ( though not required ) to receive the sacrament of penance whenever possible.

Prior to the 1991 financial reforms, RBI ’ s major source of funding and control over credit and interest rates was the CRR ( Cash reserve ratio ) and the SLR ( Statutory Liquidity Ratio ).

Prior to reforms within cities in the mid-to-late 19th century, sanitation was not a government priority.

Prior to the lockout, in late 2003 the union proposed a system that included revenue sharing, a luxury tax, a one-time five percent rollback in player salaries, and reforms to the league's entry level system.

Prior to the referendum, the state president F. W. de Klerk had already implemented extensive reforms e. g. removing the Group Areas Act.

Prior to the 1989 local body reforms, the area was a city in its own right, known as the City of East Coast Bays.

Prior to these reforms, many government officials charged high taxes on most services, allegedly amounting to little more than organized graft.

Prior to the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, there were a number of other vestments which were worn only by the pope:

Prior to the reforms of 2007 they were armed with thin wooden canes.

Prior to the 1918 boundary reforms, the county of Aberdeen had been covered, nominally, by the four constituencies of East Aberdeenshire, West Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen North, and Aberdeen South, and the county of Kincardine had been covered, nominally, by the Kincardineshire constituency.

Prior to this — before the Second World War — he was content with the role of an apolitical liberal intellectual: " Now teaching at a lycée in Laon [...] Sartre made his headquarters the Dome café at the crossing of Montparnasse and Raspail boulevards.

Prior to the release of Windows Media Player in Windows 98 Second Edition, separate programs, CD Player, Deluxe CD Player, DVD Player and Media Player, were included in old versions of Microsoft Windows for playback of media files.

Prior to this, there was an Australian version of Second Chance that aired in 1977 on Network Ten hosted by Earle Bailey and Christine Broadway and also produced by Grundy.

Prior to the Second World War, the township was a resort area with trains coming from New York City to stations at Charlotteburg, Newfoundland, Oak Ridge in the south and Hewitt ( also known as Sterling Forest station ) and Awosting in the north.

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 start of the Second World War technology had improved so that it appeared that the interceptor mission would be effectively impossible.

Prior to the Second World War, Kaunas, like many other cities in eastern Europe, had a significant Jewish population.

Prior to the Second Morrill Act, 17 states excluded blacks from access to the land grant colleges without providing similar educational opportunities.

Prior to the construction of The Pentagon during the 1940s, the Second Empire-style Ohio State Asylum for the Insane in Columbus, Ohio was reported to be the largest building under one roof in the U. S., though the title may actually belong to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, another Kirkbride Second Empire asylum.

Prior to 1827 the First Lord of the Treasury also held the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer unless he was a peer and thus barred from that office ; in this case, the Second Lord of the Treasury usually served as Chancellor.

Prior to the Second World War, virtually all hog troughs were homemade.

Prior to the Grimsby Turnpike Act of 1765 the road ( track ) through Swallow seems to have followed a line close to Chapel Lane ; a green road ran from Swallow to Rothwell until the Second World War when it was ploughed up to grow crops and never re-instated.

Prior to the Second World War Ringelblum worked for various social organizations.

Prior to the end of the Second World War the city was German and known as Hirschberg.

Prior to disestablishment, Second Fleet oversaw approximately 126 ships, 4500 aircraft, and 90, 000 personnel homeported at U. S. Navy installations along the East Coast.

Prior to the establishment of the Empire, the territories of the Roman Republic had been divided among the members of the Second Triumvirate: Mark Antony, Octavian and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.

* Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception, Second Grand Prior of the order

Prior to the Second World War, there usually existed a division of racing for cars smaller and less powerful than Grand Prix racers.

Prior to the Second World War the British had built a large airfield to house a permanent RAF base, RAF China Bay and a fuel storage and support facilities for the Royal Navy and HMS Highflyer naval base based there.

Prior to the see of Constantinople's elevation to the dignity of Patriarch by the Second Ecumenical Council in 381, the primary jurisdiction in Asia Minor was the Patriarchate of Antioch.

Prior to the Second World War, the majority of immigrants to Australia had come from the United Kingdom-though most of Australia's Catholic immigrants had come from Ireland.

( See Pastoral Care of the Sick, USA numbers 243, 265 ) Prior to the Second Vatican Council, the Apostolic Pardon was called the Apostolic Blessing.

Prior to the demise of the Papal States, the First Vatican Council had been convened by Pope Pius IX.

Prior to Vatican II they provided personal assistance to the Pope on formal state occasions as members of the Papal Court.

Prior to Vatican II, the Martyrology was read publicly as part of the Roman Catholic Divine Office at Prime.