Prior to becoming Emperor, Domitian's role in the Flavian government was largely ceremonial.

Prior to 1990 Saudi Arabia played an important role in restraining the many Islamist groups that received its aid.

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 its formal accession to the United Nations, Switzerland had maintained an observer role at the UN's General Assembly and its Economic and Social Council.

* Prior to the passage of the Statute of Westminster, the U. K. government continued to have a significant role in Irish governance.

Prior to that, he had passed on a role in another Stephen Gaghan-written role, Robert Wakefield in Traffic.

The war poet Siegfried Sassoon, who appears as a major character in the first book, Regeneration, is relegated to a minor role in this final volume, in which the main players are the fictional working-class officer, Billy Prior, and the real-life psychoanalyst, William Rivers.

Prior to the formation of Coastal Command in 1936, the role of the maritime naval operations fell to the RNAS.

Prior to their nominations, and Diana Ross for Lady Sings the Blues the same year with Winfield and Tyson, only three other African Americans-Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Poitier and James Earl Jones-had ever been nominated for a leading role.

* Prior to parturition it may have a role inhibiting contractions, through increasing cAMP levels in the myometrium.

Prior to his role on Beverly Hills, 90210, Green had a recurring role for three seasons ( 1986 – 1989 ) on the hit CBS prime time soap opera Knots Landing, playing the role of Brian Cunningham, the son of Abby Cunningham Ewing ( Donna Mills ).

During this period, about the year 1279, as the purposes of the Order shifted from that of religious hospitallers to a more military role, the position of Prior, the Order's religious head, lost its pre-eminent position.

Prior to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 this role was held by the House of Lords.

" Prior to her role as Grimbridge, Nelkin played only small cameo roles in television series like CHiPs and The Waltons.

Prior to the start of the campaign, the Predators announced defenceman Kimmo Timonen as the team's new captain, while naming Kariya and Steve Sullivan as alternates ( the two served in that role the previous season, as well, but not on a permanent basis ).

( Prior to starting as 44, Victor French had a brief guest role in the season-one episode " Too Many Chiefs " as Smart's Mutual Insurance agent.

Prior to this, the government relied on the monks from the traditional schools in Nara to perform rituals, such as chanting the Golden Light Sutra to bolster the government, but this event marked a new reliance on the esoteric tradition to fulfill this role.

Prior to being cast in the role, Robinson knew little of the Star Trek franchise and had never seen an episode of any of the television series.

Prior to his role with RI, Michel served as the United Nations High Commission on Refugees ( UNHCR ) Regional Representative for the United States and the Caribbean.

Prior to 1997, the role was played by the Governor of Hong Kong

* On Aristotle's Prior Analytics ( written by John Philoponus )

Prior Executive Editors include John V. Dodge ( 1950 – 1964 ) and Philip W. Goetz.

Prior to this, they were not limited as to how many terms they could serve ; John Engler, the governor at the time, served three terms as his first term occurred prior to the restriction.

Prior to his death the building housing much of Life Sciences at Sussex was renamed the John Maynard Smith Building, in his honour.

Prior to the election of the Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II in 1978, the last non-Italian was Pope Adrian VI of the Netherlands, elected in 1522.

He or she also upon installation automatically becomes a Knight or Dame of Justice and the Prior and Chief Officer in Canada of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Prior to his sudden death in December 983, Otto II had installed Pope John XIV, a non-Roman who had served as Otto II's chancellor in Italy, on the chair of St. Peter.

Prior to its sale to News Corp, the last members of the board of directors of the company were: Christopher Bancroft, Lewis B. Campbell, Michael Elefante, John Engler, Harvey Golub, Leslie Hill, Irvine Hockaday, Peter Kann, David Li, M. Peter McPherson ( Chairman ), Frank Newman, James Ottaway, Elizabeth Steele, and William Steere.

Prior to the release of this tape, President Nixon had denied political motivations in his instructions to the CIA, and claimed he had no knowledge prior to March 21, 1973 of any involvement by senior campaign officials such as John Mitchell.

Prior to this, a similar flag appeared in the Coat of Arms of King John III's duchy, which is today Finland Proper.

Prior to the 1986 – 87 season, the Pistons acquired more key players: John Salley ( drafted 11th overall ), Dennis Rodman ( drafted 27th ) and Adrian Dantley ( acquired in a trade with the Utah Jazz ).

Prior to the 1973 – 74 NHL season, Henderson spoke to the John Bassett, owner of the World Hockey Association ( WHA )' s Toronto Toros.

The Reagan Doctrine was especially significant because it represented a substantial shift in the post – World War II foreign policy of the U. S. Prior to the Reagan Doctrine, U. S. foreign policy in the Cold War was rooted in " containment ," as originally defined by George F. Kennan, John Foster Dulles, and other post – World War II U. S. foreign policy experts.

The collection of portraits includes works by John Brewster, Jr., Ammi Phillips and William Matthew Prior.

Prior to Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John Kerry's selection of Senator John Edwards, Vilsack was thought to be high on the list of potential running mates for Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.

Prior to the incorporation of the Village of Grand Cane in 1899, the settlement of four families ( Thomas Abington, Israel Rogers, Wright Hobgood, and John Wagner ) influenced the development of the area around two wagon trails that intersected in the sparsely populated area known as the Grand Cane Territory.

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.

* John Robert Roach, Archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis ( 1975 – 1995 ) was born in Prior Lake on July 31, 1921.

Prior to the arrival of the Moravians, there was no distinct town, but several families farmed on Jenny Jump Mountain, to the south of Hope, in surrounding area and on John Samuel Green, Jr .’ s farm in the center of what is now the Village.

In 1687, Montagu joined with Matthew Prior in " The City Mouse and the Country Mouse ," a burlesque of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther.

Prior to the release of Big Science, Anderson returned to Giorno Poetry Systems to record the album You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With ; Anderson recorded one side of the 2-LP set, with William S. Burroughs and John Giorno recording a side each, and the fourth side featured a separate groove for each artist.

Its commander, Pietro Giustiniani, Prior to the Order of St. John, was severely wounded by five arrows, but was found alive in his cabin.

Prior to recording with Albini, the band recorded a second session with John Peel on 22 September and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's " Highway 61 Revisited ," and two new songs " Me Jane " and " Ecstasy.