Prior to the second world war, the subject was commonly known as radio engineering and basically was restricted to aspects of communications and radar, commercial radio and early television.

Prior to the invasion of neutral Belgium by German forces, Hergé published humoristic drawings in L ' Ouest, a paper run by future collaborator Raymond de Becker and which strongly advocated that Belgium not join the war alongside its World War One allies France and Britain.

Prior to the outbreak of the war with Iran in September 1980, Iraq's economic prospects were bright.

Prior to the civil war, Internet filtering under the Gaddafi regime had become more selective, focusing on a few political opposition Web sites.

Prior to and during the war, Beria directed his chief bodyguard, Colonel R. S.

Prior to the outbreak of the civil war in 1991, the roughly 53 state-owned small, medium and large manufacturing firms were foundering, with the ensuing conflict destroying many of the remaining industries.

Prior to the civil war, Somalia had only one national airline, Somali Airlines, that serviced the entire country.

Prior to the breakout of the civil war in Somalia in 1991, Turkey maintained an embassy in Mogadishu.

Prior to the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, the civil war in Afghanistan produced cross-border effects that threatened to destabilize Tajikistan's fragile and hard-won peace.

Prior to the battle with the Fomorians, he coupled with the goddess of war, the Mórrígan, on Samhain in exchange for a plan of battle.

Prior to waging war against Artaxerxes, Cyrus proposed that the enemy was the Pisidians, and so the Greeks were unaware that they were to battle against the larger army of King Artaxerxes II.

Prior to Arafat's marriage, he adopted fifty Palestinian war orphans.

Prior to the war, with no useful landmass or natural resources, Bermuda was largely ignored and left to its own devices by the London government.

Prior to the war, Korea sent two ambassadors to scout for signs of Japan's intentions of invading Korea.

Prior to World War I motorized ambulances started to be developed, but once they proved their effectiveness on the battlefield during the war the concept spread rapidly to civilian systems.

Cadfael became a man at arms ( foot soldier ) in the war waged by Henry I of England to secure the union with Normandy, and returned again to England in the service of a nobleman, Roger Mauduit, who kidnapped Prior Heribert of Shrewsbury Abbey in an attempt to foil a lawsuit.

Prior to sailing off to war against Troy, Agamemnon had angered the goddess Artemis because he had killed a sacred deer in a sacred grove, and had then boasted that he was a better hunter than she was.

Prior to this battle, Black Hawk had not been committed to war.

Prior to the war, there were large orange groves and cotton plantations.

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Prior to the war the college ’ s future was previously in jeopardy during the Great Depression and resulting local bank closures.

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, despite his new-found peace of mind and engagement to munitions worker Sarah, has been affected by the war and therefore does not have a lot of concern for his safety.

Prior to the United States formally entering the war, the U. S. Army leased land near Albuquerque, New Mexico airport known as Oxnard Field, to service transient Army and U. S. Navy aircraft.

Prior to that point classical economics had either denied the existence of business cycles, blamed them on external factors, notably war, or only studied the long term.

Delegations directly under the Prior General exist in Argentina, France, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, the Lebanon, the Philippines and Portugal.

Prior to the battle, Germany had regarded Britain as a naval power and discounted her as a military force to be reckoned with, believing Germany's major enemies were France and Russia.

Prior to the completion of the current Air France head office in Tremblay-en-France in December 1995, Air France was headquartered in a tower located next to the Gare Montparnasse rail station in Montparnasse and in the 15th arrondissement ; Air France had its headquarters in the tower for about 30 years.

Prior to Biot's thorough investigation of the meteorites that fell near l ’ Aigle, France in 1803, very few truly believed that rocks found on Earth could have extraterrestrial origins.

Prior to becoming an astronaut, he had attended the United States Military Academy, and from there he joined the United States Air Force and flew F-86s at Chambley-Bussieres Air Base, France.

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.

* French Fleur-De-Lis: Prior to the French Revolution, there was no national flag which represented France.

Prior has been cured of shell-shock and is preparing to return to France.

Prior to the German campaign in France in 1940 Count Ciano leaked a warning of imminent invasion to neutral Belgium.

Prior to moving the base to Lahr, Germany, there were ceremonies in these towns and in Longuyon, France ( Permanent Married Quarters ), where the Canadians left three small ' thunderbird ' totem poles.

Prior to the formation of the Third Coalition, Napoleon had assembled the Army of England, an invasion force meant to strike at England, around six camps at Boulogne in Northern France.

Prior to 1890 pictorialism emerged through advocates who were mainly in England, Germany, Austria and France.

Prior to the establishment of the 1663 Sovereign Council, the territories of New France were developed as mercantile colonies.

Prior to the Bosman ruling, professional clubs in parts of Europe ( but not, for example, in Spain and France ) were able to prevent players from joining a club in another country even if their contracts had expired.

Prior to directing films, Camus assisted filmmakers in France, including Jacques Feyder, Luis Buñuel, and Jacques Becker.

Prior to that a number of alternatives have been found including a note that in Warwickshire in 1892 the song was sung of both the Duke of York and the King of France ; from 1894 that it was sung of Napoleon.

Prior to the German attack on the Soviet Union, he sent information about German troop transfers from other fronts for Operation Barbarossa through a Soviet military attaché in Vichy France.

After his return from France Prior became under-secretary of state and succeeded John Locke as a commissioner of trade.

Prior to the establishment of the 1663 Sovereign Council, the highest positions in New France were that of Governor and Lieutenant-General, which were often held by the same person.

When Albany came from France and assumed the regency, these documents and the " purchase " of the bishopric from Rome contrary to statute were made the basis of an attack on Douglas, who was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, thereafter in St Andrews Castle ( under the charge of his old opponent, Prior Hepburn ), and later in Dunbar Castle, and again in Edinburgh.

Prior to establishment of the Intendant of New France and the Sovereign Council, the Governor shared legislative, executive and judicial powers with the old Council of Quebec, which was established by the royal statues of 1647 and 1648 .< ref >" Jean Talon.

Prior to that, the region had never belonged to France.