Prior to his break from the Society Mead had already begun emphasizing sources from the Western esoteric tradition in his writing.

Prior to working in the film industry, the Wachowskis wrote comic books for Marvel Comics ' Razorline imprint, namely Ectokid ( created by horror novelist Clive Barker ) in 1993 as well as writing for Epic Comics ' Clive Barker's Hellraiser and Clive Barker's Nightbreed comic series.

The oldest surviving writing to explicitly consider the rules by which reason operates are the works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle, especially Prior Analysis and Posterior Analysis.

He took a year to consider what action to take, before writing to the Prior of Bath in October 1500 to explain that a large amount of the priory income would be dedicated to rebuilding the cathedral.

Prior to World War I, Baedeker's guides were famous enough that baedekering became an English-language term for the process of travelling a country for the purpose of writing a travel guide or travelogue about it.

Prior to the 2004 election, Buchanan announced he once again identified himself as a Republican, declared that he had no interest in ever running for president again, and reluctantly endorsed Bush's 2004 re-election, writing:

Prior to writing this book, Bloom spent a decade studying the Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century.

Prior to the advent of Windows, DOS applications would either communicate directly with the various pieces of hardware ( responding to interrupts, reading and writing device memory etc.

Prior to writing the book, Davey spent six years researching the case and conducting his own experiments as to how the fire really may have started.

Prior to this, Bailey and Currie ( who were now a couple ) had their first child together in 1988, and in the following years they spent a lot of time writing material for other artists including the hit single " I Want That Man " for Debbie Harry in 1989.

Prior to the onset of the Islamisation, when Hindu-Buddhist influences were still firmly established in the region, the Pallava script was primarily used in writing Malay language.

Prior to writing the script to Alien, O ' Bannon had been working in France for Chilean cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky's planned adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel Dune.

Prior to this revamp, Claremont was writing both of the main X-Men titles ( Uncanny X-Men and X-Men, the latter of which became New X-Men, and then X-Men: Legacy ).

Maddy Prior, writing in the liner notes to the Steeleye Span retrospective Spanning the Years, drily characterizes the song's countercultural appeal, in describing one 1970s performance:

Prior to embarking on a full-time writing career, he served in the United States Air Force and worked for the US government and in private sector security.

Prior to the writing trip in Spain, he had decided that the new album would be more " acoustic-guitary " and also wanted to prove to himself that he could still write pop songs with choruses.

RUN reviewer Bob Sodaro noted the replay value of Mercenary, writing " Prior to marking up the maps with the game, you should make a number of photocopies so you'll have clean copies when playing subsequent adventures ".

Prior to writing full time about politics he worked as a technical writer, then moved into high-tech marketing.

Prior to the boom in historical writing in the High Middle Ages, the number and quality of works from England's earlier period is often lacking, with some notable and bright exceptions.

Prior to his writing the Confessions, the two great autobiographies were Augustine's own Confessions and Saint Teresa's Life of Herself.

Prior to writing the episode, Roberts had been an audio and visual editor on the show.

Prior to becoming a professor at Columbia University in 1946, Barnouw spent the mid-1930s writing, producing, and directing a number of radio shows for the CBS and NBC radio networks.

Prior to Dutch arrival the native inhabitants did not use writing, and the missionaries created a number of romanization schemes for the various Formosan languages.

Prior to his career in writing, he worked as a tree pruner, antiques restorer, hospital orderly, investigative reporter, photojournalist, recording musician, singer, and songwriter.

Prior to the Governing Body meeting, Ministers adopted the Bali Declaration on the Treaty that commits them to engage in further enhancing Treaty implementation to help meet the challenges of agricultural biodiversity erosion, food insecurity, extreme poverty and the effects of climate change ; and calls upon parties and relevant stakeholders to prioritize activities relevant to the MLS, sustainable use of PGRFA, and Farmers ’ Rights, and to mobilize more funds.

Prior to presenting their award, the K Foundation held a private exhibit of a collection of art works entitled Money-A Major Body of Cash.

Prior to filming Anchorwoman, Jones worked on the Baywatch workout video series, Baywatch Beach Body Workout, with Lauren Jones, which released in stores and on the Internet on December 4, 2007.

Prior to V. I. P., Raitano was an aerobics instructor and was a host of the ESPN2 show Hip Hop Body Shop.

Prior to writing The Body Shape Bible, Trinny and Susannah conducted a survey on women that helped them to identify the twelve most common body shapes which they would then feature in their fashion advice book.

Prior to the 19th century, textual analysis of the Bible itself was the only tool available to extract and evaluate whatever historical data it contained.

Prior to the 5th century, Armenians had their own spoken language, but it was not written, thus The Bible and Liturgy were written in Greek or Syriac rather than Armenian.

Prior to the Dutch arrival in the 18th century, a missionary, B. F. Matthews, translated the Bible into Buginese, which made him the first European to acquire knowledge of the language.

** Prior Catholic study of the Bible is faulted for being primarily interested in drawing out consistent doctrines 25.

Prior to starting his Bible school, Parham had heard of at least one individual in Sandford's work who spoke in tongues and had reprinted the incident in his paper.

Prior to the explanation above, the explanation of Sextus Julius Africanus that there had been a levirate marriage and that Joseph's grandfather Mattan ( descendant of Solomon ) had had a wife called " Esther " ( not recorded in the Bible ) with whom he fathered Jacob ( Joseph's father ), but Matthan died and Esther married Heli's father Melchi ( descendant of Nathan ).

Prior to Crowley's arrival in London, Grafton had been imprisoned three times for printing-related offences: twice in 1541 ( for a " sedicious epistle of Melanctons " and ballads defending Thomas Cromwell ), and then in 1543, for the Great Bible.

Prior to forming Cloud Ten, the LaLonde brothers had earned some notoriety in Christian Evangelical circles through their television program, This Week in Bible Prophecy.

Prior to that, a census was conducted in 1989 at the end of the communist regime.

Prior to Verdi's body's being driven from the cemetery to the official memorial service and its final resting place at the Casa di Riposo per Musicisti, Arturo Toscanini conducted a chorus of 820 singers in " Va, pensiero ".

Prior to the formation of the OSS ( the American version of the British Secret Intelligence Service and Special Operations Executive ), American intelligence had been conducted on an ad-hoc basis by the various departments of the executive branch, including the State, Treasury, Navy, and War Departments.

Prior to that time voting was conducted openly, allowing campaigns to confirm that voters cast ballots for the candidates they had been paid to support.

Prior to trial, most proceedings in non-criminal courts are conducted via papers filed in the court, often through lawyers.

Prior to that time, the county business had been conducted from " Old Chariton ," a small village near the confluence of the Chariton and Missouri Rivers.

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 the establishment of official rules by the Afghan Olympic Federation the sport was mainly conducted based upon rules such as not whipping a fellow rider intentionally or deliberately knocking him off his horse.

Prior to each flight a safety check is conducted to ensure all equipment such as life-vests, torches ( flashlights ) and firefighting equipment are on board, in the right quantity, and in proper condition.

Prior to the July 1956 general elections in the Gold Coast, a plebiscite was conducted under United Nations ( UN ) auspices to decide the future disposition of British Togoland and French Togoland.

Prior to this time, power tools were metal castings that often conducted electrical sparks or current into the user as well as being very heavy.

Prior to World War II, experiments to detect enemy aircraft with huge concrete acoustic mirrors were conducted at Denge.

Prior to his appearance, Clinton's campaign staff had conducted an intense debate about how far he should go in distancing himself from Jackson, who was unpopular with moderate voters.

Prior to the full establishment of smokejumping, experiments with parachute insertion of firefighters were conducted in 1934 in Utah and in the Soviet Union.

Prior to the introduction of electronic trading on 1 June 1990, all trading was conducted on the floor of the Stockholm Stock Exchange Building.

Prior to cession, warfare, though conducted on a modest scale, was endemic in Rotuma.

Prior to the institution of civil marriages in Greece, the only legally recognized marriages were those conducted in the Church of Greece.

Prior to 1996, seeding was conducted on a regional basis.

Prior to filming, Peirce conducted extensive research into the case which lasted almost five-and-a-half years.

( Prior to the war, the RCMP conducted political surveillance on labour and the left through its Criminal Investigation Department ).

Prior to his arrival, Edison conducted many costly trial-and-error experiments.

Prior to Struve, the Kharkiv Observatory was not registered within the Russian leveling network and the altitude of Kharkiv was based on rather inaccurate trigonometric leveling conducted by local triangulation.

Prior to 2001, census data were published for larger Enumeration Districts which were delineated before the census was conducted and were the organizational units for census data collection.

Prior to the availability of high performance turboprops, basic training was conducted with jet aircraft such as the BAC Jet Provost, T-37 Tweet, and Fouga Magister.