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

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 rise of the railroad industry, rivers and canals were the major " highways of commerce " in the American Midwest.

Prior to the rise of the fast food chain restaurant, people generally had a choice between greasy spoon diners where the quality of the food was often questionable and service lacking, or high-end restaurants that were expensive and impractical for families with children.

Prior to these changes, The Independent had a daily circulation of around 217, 500, the lowest of any major national British daily, climbing to claim a 15 % rise by March 2004 ( to 250, 000 ).

Prior to the recent rise in MPEG-4 encoding in consumer devices, a progressive scan form of M-JPEG also saw widespread use in the “ movie ” modes of Digital Still Cameras, allowing video encoding and playback through the integrated JPEG compression hardware with only a software modification.

Prior was interviewed about the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory!

Prior to the rise of Athens, Sparta considered itself to be the leader of the Greeks, or hegemon.

Prior to her husband's rise to power, Maria Amalia and her husband had to cope with a persistent money problem due to the fact that they had no income aside from that which they were given by the English crown.

Prior to the rise of Theravada Buddhism, both Indian Brahmanic religion and Mahayana Buddhism were present in Thailand.

Prior to no-till farming's rise in popularity, the annual tilling of the soil often exposed arrowheads and other artifacts.

'" Prior to his rise to prominence as a writer, he was best known as the line editor for Andrew Rev's incarnation of Comico.

Prior to the rise of suburban shopping malls and in the 1970s, the Roslindale business district, Roslindale Square, was a major shopping district for the city of Boston, with department stores, showrooms, food markets, and a movie theatre.

Prior to the rise of Saladin, Egypt was the center of the Shia Fatimid Caliphate, the only period in Islamic history when a caliphate was ruled by members of the Shia branch of Islam.

Prior to his son's rise to fame, Poe had been known simply as ' Fernando Poe '.

Prior to the rise of Christianity, certain " homosexual " practices had existed among certain groups, with some degree of social acceptance in ancient Rome and ancient Greece ( e. g. the pederastic relationship of an adult Greek male with a Greek youth, or of a Roman citizen with a slave ).

Prior to the rise of video games, Sega produced arcade games that resemble video games, but were in fact electro-mechanical games that used rear image projection in a manner similar to the ancient zoetrope to produce moving animations on a screen.

Prior to the rise of Reza Khan, Khaz ' al had never attempted to separate his sheikhdom from Qajar Persia, to which he had maintained staunch loyalty.

Prior to the rise of classical economics in the eighteenth century, the economies in Europe and its North American colonies were governed by a variety of ( formal and informal ) regulations designed to prevent " greed " from overcoming " morality ".

Prior to the 2008 – 09 season, a Rivals. com writer called Drew the Big 12 " coach on the rise ", due to Drew's success in recruiting talent to Baylor.

Prior to the internet, virtual communities ( like social or academic organizations ) were far more limited by the constraints of available communication and transportation technologies.

Prior to the Victorian era, courtesans were sometimes limited in their apparel by various sumptuary laws and were restricted in where they could appear at social functions.

Prior to the 1960s and ' 70s, specialized gay communities did not exist as such outside Berlin and Amsterdam ; bars were usually where gay social networks developed, and they were located in certain urban areas where police zoning would implicitly allow so-called " deviant entertainment " under close surveillance.

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

Prior Lake is located in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, represented by John Kline, a Republican, who is conservative on a variety of social issues, scoring 2. 8 % progressive on a range of issues and 88 % conservative based on 2006 House votes.

Prior to World War II, they were generally conservative in social policy, and classically liberal in economic policy.

Prior to this consolidation the school was the social hub of the community.

Prior to the founding of the Musar movement, musar was a practice of the solitary seeker ; thanks to Salanter, it became the basis for a popular social / spiritual movement.

Prior to the 1980s, most Latin American countries focused on social insurance policies involving formal sector workers, assuming that the informal sector would disappear with economic development.

Prior to 1952, the social credit movement in British Columbia was divided between various factions.

Prior to the enlightenment, social theory took largely narrative and normative form.

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

Prior to the Civil War, Cooper was active in the anti-slavery movement and promoted the application of Christian concepts to solve social injustice.

Prior to the mid 20th Century literature on legal aid emphasised collective enforcement of economic, social and cultural rights.

Prior to 2013, the Super Quiz replaced one of the seven objective events each year ; from 2003-2012, it alternated between replacing science and social science.

A considerable number of their songs dealt with social and political issues Prior to becoming known as Endpoint, the band's original name was Deathwatch.

Prior to the elections, the party redefined itself in terms of the ideology of social democracy.

Prior to the move to Cannon Street, the LIFFE social life was certainly wilder around the Royal Exchange.

Prior to the start of the Kern County child abuse cases, several local social workers had attended a training seminar that foregrounded satanic ritual abuse as a major element in child sexual abuse, and had used the now-debunked memoir Michelle Remembers as training material.

Prior to being elected to public office, he founded and published the People ’ s Yellow Pages ( 1973 and 1976 ), which listed community and political groups, and social and public services in Seattle.

Prior to this period different social classes lived side by side, but they now lived in separate neighborhoods.

Prior to entering politics full-time, Brown was employed as a social worker and teacher.

Prior to Napoleon's invasion, almost all of Egypt's educational, legal, public health, and social welfare issues were in the hands of religious functionaries.

Prior to this amendment the only social services provision was s51 ( xxiii ) that gave power to legislate for invalid and old-age pensions.