Prior to the December 1984 coup that brought Taya to power, the Mauritanian-Moroccan cooperation agency stated that relations between the two countries were on the mend in spite of alleged Moroccan complicity in a 1981 coup attempt and Mauritania's subsequent turn toward Algeria.

Prior to the turn of the 20th century, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad moved to Hamlet, helping the town become a crossroads for rail spurs extending from Florida to New York and all points east and west.

Prior to and during World War II, the naval bases of Point Mugu and Port Hueneme were established in the area to take advantage of the only major navigable port on California's coast between the Port of Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay, and the bases in turn encouraged the development of the defense-based aerospace and communications industries.

Prior to recording the song and to get into the mood, she requested Moroder to turn off the lights while they sat on a sofa with him inducing her moans and groans.

Bradwardine's theories on the insolubles including the liar paradox were a great influence on the work of Jean Buridan and therefore, in turn of the more recent philosopher A. N. Prior.

Prior to undergoing expensive fertility procedures many women and couples will turn to online sources to determine their estimate chances of success.

Alba remained in exile two years, when the success of António, Prior of Crato, in assuming the crown of Portugal caused Philip to turn to Alba as the man whose ability and fidelity he could most rely on.

Prior to these changes, the OAS's top body was the Inter-American Conference, which in turn was the successor to the International Conference of American States.

Prior to putting the Cap of Centipedes on the head, his hair was shaved, to make it easy for the Centipedes to suck blood, which in turn made holes in skull.

Prior to the 1495 Spanish colonization of Tenerife, the native Guanches referred to the volcano as Echeyde, which in the Guanches ' legends, meant some sort of powerful figure leaving the volcano that could turn into hell.

Prior to the 2005 restructure, the reserve forces of the Irish Army were known as the Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil ( Local Defence Force ), which in turn has its origins in the Units formed in 1920s.

Prior to the war, the U. S. government had aligned itself with Tutsi interests, in turn raising Hutu concerns about potential U. S. support to the opposition.

Prior to the face turn, Brown had started wrestling with a chest protector, supposedly for a torn pectoral muscle sustained in a match against Dan " The Beast " Severn.

Prior to iptables, the predominant software packages for creating Linux firewalls were ipchains in Linux 2. 2 and ipfwadm in Linux 2. 0, which in turn was based on BSD's ipfw.

The Derby Racer was built in 1927 for Playland by Prior & Church with horses carved by Marcus Charles Illions, a turn of the Century New York carousel horse carver.

Prior to the turn of the 21st century, Oman's senior team have generally finished in last place in all competitions in which competed in.

Prior to the turn of the 20th century West Levenshulme was considered to be a " dormitory " for Manchester.

Prior to Microsoft's release of a security patch, the workaround for this issue was to turn off 16-bit application support, which prevented older programs ( those written for DOS and Windows 3. 1 ) from running.

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Prior to the turn of the century, a former slave purchased most of the old town site for $ 500.

Prior to the completion of the Pretty River Parkway in Collingwood in the 1970s, Highway 26 was routed through Collingwood along Hume Street, before making a 90 degree right turn ( north ) at the intersection with Highway 24 ( Now Simcoe Road 124, Hurontario Street ) with which it was concurrent until Highway 24's terminus at First Street, where Highway 26 makes a 90 degree left turn ( west ) onto First Street, continuing on the present route.

Prior to the Treaty of Lisbon, each member state ( in turn ) took the responsibilities of both the Presidency of the European Council and the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Prior to the turn of the millennium, the Canucks and Flames faced each other during the first round of postseason play in, which was the first playoff series victory by the Canucks, en route to the Finals,,, during the Flames championship season of, and 1994, with Calgary holding a 3-2 margin.

Prior to its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation ( pronounced " Garner " or " Gowna ").

Prior to the early 20th century, all shotgun barrels were forged by heating narrow strips of iron and steel and shaping them around a mandrel.

Prior to liberalization measures, the Central Bank of Honduras ( Banco Central de Honduras ) maintained interest rate controls, setting a 19 percent ceiling, with the market lending rate hovering around 26 percent in late 1991.

Prior to nationalisation, the island's telegraph operations had been performing poorly and the company's share price valued it at around £ 100.

Prior to recent years, science fiction television shows were normally centered around a premise and characters were defined essentially based on what they did or encountered in the course of their adventures.

Prior to the introduction of standard time, each municipality around the civilized world set its official clock, if it had one, according to the local position of the Sun ( see solar time ).

The first known definition in the West is by Aristotle around 350 BC, in his book Prior Analytics, where he classified it as a material fallacy.

Prior to World War I, bayonet doctrine was largely centered around the concept of ' reach '; that is, a soldier's theoretical ability, by use of an extremely long rifle and fixed bayonet, to bayonet an enemy soldier without having to approach within reach of his opponent's blade.

Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the land Wayne County encompasses was originally part of the Iroquois Confederacy, which had existed from around August 31, 1142.

Prior to the arrival of the missionaries, some 550 natives were scattered throughout the local area ; by 1790, the number of converted Christians had grown to 700, and just six years later nearly 1, 000 " neophytes " ( recent converts ) lived in or around the Mission compound.

Prior to joining the Our Gang comedies, " Sonny ," as he was called by his family, modeled children's clothing for a Dallas department store and was also seen around the Dallas area on highway billboards and in print advertisements for Wonder Bread.

Prior to 1921 " Uzbek " and " Sart " were considered to be different dialects ; " Uzbek " was a vowel-harmonised Kipchak dialect spoken by descendants of those who arrived in Transoxiana with Shaybani Khan in the 16th century, who lived mainly around Bukhara and Samarkand, although the Turkic spoken in Tashkent was also vowel-harmonised ; " Sart " was a Qarluq dialect spoken by the older settled Turkic populations of the region in the Ferghana Valley and the Kashka-Darya region, and in some parts of what is now the Samarkand Province ; it contained a heavier admixture of Persian and Arabic, and did not use vowel-harmony.

Prior to the arrival of European settlers around 1740, Greenbrier County, like most of West Virginia, was used as a hunting grounds by the Shawnee and Cherokee Nations.

Prior to 1782, with the exception of occasional failed colonization schemes, the Europeans ignored the vast Ouachita Valley, which extended from the area around Hot Springs, Arkansas southward towards the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

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 arrival of Europeans, the area around San Juan Bautista was populated by the Mutsunes, a branch of the Ohlone Indians.

Prior to its purchase by English settlers in 1662, the area around Moodus was inhabited by Native American Algonquians, three of which tribes are known: the Wangunks, the Mohegans and the Nehantics.

Prior to the late 1800s the area around present-day Elsmere was a small rural community, largely open farmland with some scattered residential dwellings.

Prior to European settlement, the Minquas ( or Susquehannock ) peoples lived in and around modern-day Newport.

Prior to the arrival of European settlers in North America, Native American settlements appear to have been limited to the area north of the Indian River, north of what is now Bethany Beach ; even after Europeans pushed the Native Americans — mostly Nanticokes -- out of their coastal settlements in the mid-17th century, the Native Americans moved west to settle around Oak Orchard, Delaware, and in the Millsboro, Delaware, area rather than south toward what would become Bethany Beach.

Prior to Pelot's arrival, the area around Lake Lillian was a popular resting place for Native American bands including the Seminole tribe under Osceola.

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 to the formation of the Third Coalition, Napoleon had assembled an invasion force, called the Armée d ' Angleterre ( Army of England ) around six camps at Boulogne in Northern France.

Prior to the attack the town had a population of around 2, 500.