Prior to a 2002 amendment to the Foreign Service Act ( Section 503 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, as amended by the Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 ), United States government employees were required to resign from government service for their period of assignment to AIT.

Prior to the 2008 – 09 season, Robinson left from behind the Devils ' bench to become a special assignment coach between the organization's prospects in Lowell, Mass., and the Devils.

Prior to his assignment at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Bridges was the commander, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California.

Prior to his assignment to command STS-88, Cabana served three years as NASA ’ s Chief of the Astronaut Office.

Prior to her assignment at NASA in 1987, she attended initial rotary-wing pilot training and was subsequently assigned as an instructor pilot at the U. S. Army Aviation School.

Prior to his first space flight assignment, Massimino served in the Astronaut Office Robotics Branch, and in the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity ( EVA ) Branch.

Prior to his last assignment, Schoomaker spent over 30 years in a variety of assignments with both conventional and special operations forces – he is the first Special Forces-trained Army Chief of Staff and the second to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( General Henry H. Shelton was the first, when he served as Chairman ).

Prior to that assignment, Treinen held a number of responsibilities at First Data, including Senior Vice President from February 2006 to August 2006 ; President of First Data Government Solutions from April 2004 to January 2006 ; and Managing Director of eONE Global, a First Data Corporation subsidiary, from November 2000 through March 2004.

Prior he worked as a general assignment reporter for WPIX-11, the CW's flagship station in New York City.

Prior to each session of the court, the assignment of the cases is determined by lot.

Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Chowdhury completed his assignment ( 1996-2001 ) as Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York.

Prior to this assignment, he led Booz-Allen's energy, chemicals and pharmaceuticals practice.

Prior to his final assignment, Burns was the United States Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Prior to joining MSNBC, Fitzgerald served as weekend anchor and general assignment reporter for the NBC owned-and-operated station WVTM-TV in Birmingham, Alabama.

Prior to his CNBC Radio assignment, David was co-anchor of CNBC's Morning Call.

Prior to that, Townsend spent thirteen years at the United States Department of Justice in a variety of senior positions, her last assignment as Counsel to the Attorney General for Intelligence Policy.

Prior to her Washington assignment, she was the host of the network's morning show: CBC News: Morning, and she has also been an anchor for The National.

Prior to this assignment, Welch served as Officer in Charge, USCGC Point Chico ( WPB 82339 ), also homeported in Bodega Bay.

Prior to modern times, there was no distinction between architects, engineers and often artists, and the title used varied depending on geographical location.

Prior to version 0. 7, Freenet used a heuristic routing algorithm where each node had no fixed location, and routing was based on which node had served a key closest to the key being fetched ( in version 0. 3 ) or which is estimated to serve it faster ( in version 0. 5 ).

Prior to Gardner's investigations, no serious archaeological excavation had occurred at the city, though he himself soon unearthed four miles of earthworks, and uncovered finds that included tombs, pottery, and porcelain dating from Ming China.

Prior to that event, the north-flowing Steubenville River ( no longer in existence ) ended between New Martinsville and Paden City, West Virginia.

Prior to working at Atari, Alcorn had no experience with video games.

Prior to forming and commanding the Xiang Army, Zeng Guofan had no military experience.

Prior to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and its eventual decipherment, there had been no understanding of the Ancient Egyptian language and script since shortly before the fall of the Roman Empire.

Prior to full membership it had no right to a seat as one of the elected members of the UN Security Council.

Prior to ratification of the Twenty-fifth Amendment in 1967, no provision existed for filling a vacancy in the office of Vice President.

Prior to this discovery, the earliest-known fossil turtles were terrestrial and had a complete shell, offering no clue to the evolution of this remarkable anatomical feature.

Prior to this, many nonwhite immigrants with full rights of citizenship in Britain were obliged to take the jobs that no one else wanted ( such as street cleaning, night-shift assembly production lines ), often paid considerably less than their white counterparts.

On 28 April, Powell spoke in the Commons against the Northern Ireland Secretary's ( Jim Prior ) plans for devolution to a power-sharing assembly in Northern Ireland: " We assured the people of the Falkland Islands that there should be no change in their status without their agreement.

Prior to 2005, after the top two cars were set, the top 14 cars in the qualifying races advanced to the field, and then between six ( 1998 – 2003 ), eight ( 1995 – 97, 2004 ), or ten ( until 1994 ) fastest cars which did not advance from the qualifying race were added, and, since 1976, between one and seven cars were added by previous year's points performance and or championship, except for 1985, when no such car was eligible for a provisional starting spot, the only time that happened in the Daytona 500 from when the provisional was added in 1976 through 2004.

Prior to the late 1930s, black tie was even discouraged as too informal for evening weddings, with Amy Vanderbilt arguing that " no man should ever be caught in a church in a tuxedo.

Prior to the European foundation of the city, there was no established nation state, and the population instead consisted of some indigenous semi-nomad groups that are collectively called Chichimecas.

Prior to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish Catholics had no cemeteries of their own in which to bury their dead and, as the repressive Penal Laws of the eighteenth century placed heavy restrictions on the public performance of Catholic services, it had become normal practice for Catholics to conduct a limited version of their own funeral services in Protestant cemeteries.

Prior to relocating to Chicago, the Everleigh sisters toured brothels in many cities, trying to find a location which had " plenty of wealthy men but no superior houses.

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 adoption of Protocol no. 14, judges were elected for a six-year term, with the option of renewal.

Prior to August 1981, no great white shark in captivity lived longer than 11 days.

" Prior to filming, the AHA were told by the producer's office that no animals were to be used in the film.

Prior to the IEEE standard, programmers often used a special value ( such as − 99999999 ) to represent undefined or missing values, but there was no guarantee that they would be handled consistently or correctly.

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 Fourier's work, no solution to the heat equation was known in the general case, although particular solutions were known if the heat source behaved in a simple way, in particular, if the heat source was a sine or cosine wave.