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 the rise of social media networks, K-Pop concerts and related events outside East and Southeast Asia were mostly unheard of.

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 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.

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 joining the Afghan government, Jalali lived with his family in suburban Maryland.

Prior to this, it had been suggested that European records referred to escapes from captivity, because of their tameness, the distance from the species ' normal breeding range, the suburban habitat of many of the records, and their winter timing ; Hirschfeld presented counter-arguments to all these points, and today it is generally accepted that most if not all Rufous Turtle Doves in Europe are wild birds.

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 his appointment as president of the American Automotive Policy Council in 2011, Blunt served as a member of the board of Copart, an auto salvage company in Fairfield, California ; an advisor for Solamere Capital, a suburban Boston private equity firm started by Tagg Romney ; and a consultant for Cassidy & Associates, a Washington, D. C. lobbying firm, and a partner with the Ashcroft Group, the Washington, D. C. and St. Louis-based consulting firm founded by former U. S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Prior to their displacement on these services by railcars, right into the 2000s the Cravens could be found on outer suburban workings, such as those from Dublin to Arklow and Longford.

Prior to being elected Father General, Arrupe made a visit to Latin America and, on one occasion, was celebrating the Eucharist in a suburban slum.

Prior to his death in 1938, Albert Grace planned suburban expansion of the Grace Bros stores from the City, a move which is considered the reason Grace Bros survived when many of their contemporaries perished such as Anthony Hordern ’ s and Mark Foys.

Prior to the building's completion, the township conducted business from a rented basement office at Kiski Park Plaza shopping center on Route 56 at the intersection of the 356 by-pass.

" Prior to selling its certificate business to Symantec in 2010, Verisign had more than 3, 000, 000 certificates in operation for everything from military to financial services and retail applications, making it the largest CA behind the encryption and authentication on the Internet, which most people recognize as the small padlock icon in their Web browser when shopping online or logging into a secure website.

Prior to the emergence of military rule in the early 1980s, Ikeja was a well planned, clean and quiet residential environment with shopping malls, pharmacies and government reservation areas.

Prior to the construction of the Stirling railway station as part of the Northern Suburbs Transit System, a possible deviation of the rail alignment was considered to directly service the suburb and it's shopping district including Westfield Innaloo.

Prior to the construction of the Johor Bahru City Square, this was the most popular shopping centre.

Prior to this day, special discounts on clothes, furniture, electronics and various deals and shopping discounts are available.

Prior to the extension, the 70, 000 m² Southland shopping centre had very limited development options.

Prior to the construction of the shopping center in the late 1960s, the Broadway side of the shopping center had a used car lot.

Prior to taking on this particular case, the lawyers of the Thomas More Law Center traveled the country shopping for a school board willing to withstand a lawsuit as a test case for the teaching of intelligent design in public schools, forcing the first test case for intelligent design in the courts.

Prior to the 1970s the protection of basic air and water supplies was a matter mainly left to each state.

Prior to 1979, the symbol < span style =" font-size: 112 %"></ span > ( script small l, U + 2113 ), came into common use in some countries ; for example, it was recommended by South African Bureau of Standards publication M33 and Canada in the 1970s.

Prior to the 1970s, it was one of the most popular drum woods.

Prior to this, as late as the 1970s and early 80s, First Nations and Inuit in Canada, as Native Americans in the United States, were forced into residential schools imposed on them by the Canadian government to integrate indigenous cultures into European-Canadian society.

Prior to this they had reportedly saved an episode of Saturday Night Live by breaking through a picket line and hosting the show against the union's wishes ; the episode was a ratings smash the likes of which the series had not seen since the 1970s.

Prior to the development of in vitro fertilization in the 1970s, all babies inherited their mitochondrial DNA from the woman in whose uterus they had developed.

Prior to the 1970s, the main function of the constables was to provide court service and security to the Justice of the Peace courts.

Prior to the FIFA's 1991 establishment of the Women's World Cup, several unofficial world tournaments took place in the 1970s and 1980s, including the FIFA's Women's Invitation Tournament 1988, which was hosted in Taiwan.

Prior to the Welland Canal relocation in the early 1970s, there were two bridges crossing the old canal.

Prior to the 1970s American airports had minimal security arrangements to prevent aircraft hijackings.

Prior to the evolution of punk in the 1970s, there was little rock and roll tradition from Minneapolis, which author Steven Blush attributed to a lack of anything to " rebel against ", noting that it was Minneapolis ' friendly atmosphere that made future hardcore punk musicians " crazy and rebellious ".

Prior to the 1970s, a popular view in the defense community was that missiles would render WVR combat obsolete and hence maneuverability useless.

Prior to the opening of the M5 motorway in the 1960s and 1970s, the A38 formed the main " holiday route " from the Midlands to Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.

Prior to the 1970s, MITI guidance had successes such as an improved steel industry, the creation of the oil supertanker, the automotive industry, consumer electronics, and computer memory.

Prior to the 1980 Census, Nevada had only a single at-large member in the United States House of Representatives, but population growth in the 1970s resulted in the state picking up a second district.

The region produced no significant bands in the electric folk movement of the 1970s but can claim one of the most significant figures, as Maddy Prior was brought up in Blackpool.

Prior to the 1970s there had been an underground ( mostly male ) gay scene centred around various bathhouses and bars around the city that were not exclusively gay establishments but were known to be frequented by homosexuals.

Prior to joining the NASCAR circuit, Wallace made a name for himself racing around the Midwest in the late 1970s by winning a pair of local track championships.

Prior to the establishment of the men's World Open, a tournament called the World Amateur Individual Championship was held in the late-1960s and 1970s.

Prior to the 1970s, air transport operations were not considered sufficiently demanding to require advanced equipment like electronic flight displays.

Prior to Musselman Library being built in the late 1970s, and due to Gettysburg's wet climate and drainage issues, the quad and library site would be prone to accumulating water, creating a large, muddy " lake " of sorts.

Prior to the design and construction of the Galileo probe to Jupiter in the late 1970s to early 1980s, NASA used Vidicon cameras on most of their unmanned deep space probes equipped with the remote sensing ability.

Prior to the introduction of Brain death into law in the mid to late 1970s, all organ transplants from cadaveric donors came from non-heart beating donors ( NHBDs ).

Prior to the early 1970s, the communities of Onaping Falls were company towns with no direct municipal government.

Prior to the 1970s the air forces had been seen primarily as delivery mechanisms for tactical nuclear weapons, or for attacks on enemy air forces.