Shortly before his nomination he had set forth his basic view about the problem of negotiations with the Soviet leader in these words:

Shortly before his assassination, Lincoln announced he had a new plan for southern Reconstruction.

Shortly before his marriage, for example, his future father-in-law Colonel Joseph May helped him find a job teaching at a school in Boston run by the Society of Free Enquirers, followers of Robert Owen, for a lucrative $ 1, 000 to $ 1, 200 annual salary.

Shortly afterwards Trajan was chosen by Nerva to be his successor, adopted with public fanfare in absentia by the old man shortly before his death.

Shortly before this battle the Spartan navy, of which he had received the supreme command, was totally defeated off Cnidus by a powerful Persian fleet under Conon and Pharnabazus.

Shortly before its final " flowering ", the changes in a single minute of the Blight's life are said to exceed those of 10, 000 years of human civilization.

Shortly before his death, he passed his chair on to John of La Rochelle, setting the precedent for that chair to be held by a Franciscan.

Shortly before the World Cup Charlton was involved in the Bogotá Bracelet incident in which he and Bobby Moore were accused of stealing a bracelet from a jewellery store.

Shortly after 20: 00, a dismasted hulk was spotted drifting in front of Swiftsure and Hallowell initially ordered his men to fire before rescinding the order, concerned for the identity of the strange vessel.

Shortly before his death, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church had given Pasternak the last rites.

Shortly before this, Chaplin and his wife had separated after 18 months of marriage — they were " irreconcilably mismated ", he remembered.

Shortly before 1951, Lewis Fry Richardson, in researching the possible effect of border lengths on the probability of war, noticed that the Portuguese reported their measured border with Spain to be 987 km, but the Spanish reported it as 1214 km.

Shortly before the end of the First World War in 1918, the Croatian Parliament severed relations with Austria-Hungary as the Entente armies defeated those of the Habsburgs.

Shortly before quitting, he moonlighted as a comic book artist, contributing half the artwork for a one-shot comic book ( the other half of the art being done by story partner Jack Hannah ) titled Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold.

Shortly before the satellite-linked interview was scheduled to commence, the death of the Spanish dictator General Franco was announced.

Shortly before World War II, he edited two of the earliest periodicals devoted entirely to science fiction, Stirring Science Stories and Cosmic Stories.

Shortly before his death in 2002, he received the ACM PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing for his work on self-stabilization of program computation.

Shortly before his death, Mount Palomar's giant reflector Hale Telescope was completed, and Hubble was the first astronomer to use it.

Shortly before leaving he had issued a famous instruction to F. Gaspar Barazeuz who was leaving to go to Ormuz ( a kingdom on an island in the Persian Gulf, now part of Iran ), that he should mix with sinners:

Shortly before Christmas, he left for Kyoto but failed to meet with the Emperor.

Shortly before leaving Florence, as they knew that they would soon have to retreat, the Germans murdered many freedom fighters and political opponents publicly, in streets and squares including the Piazza Santo Spirito.

Shortly before the trial Eiffel had announced his intention to resign from the Board of Directors of the Compagnie des Establissments Eiffel, and did so at a General Meeting held on 14 February, saying " I have absolutely decided to abstain from any participation in any manufacturing business from now on, and so that no one can be misled and to make it most evident that I intend to remain absolutely uninvolved with the management of the establishments which bear my name, I wish to that my name should disappear from the name of the company.

Shortly before the invasion, when fast delivery and secrecy was essential, fast yachts and small vessels were used for special courier services.

Shortly before accepting the offer from Nagoya Grampus Eight, Tottenham had rejected an offer from ambitious Second Division club Blackburn Rovers, who had recently been taken over by steel baron Jack Walker.

In 1998, the Ericsson AXD301 switch was announced, containing over a million lines of Erlang, and reported to achieve a reliability of nine " 9 " s. Shortly thereafter, Erlang was banned within Ericsson Radio Systems for new products, citing a preference for non-proprietary languages.

Shortly after his election in 2003, Governor Ernie Fletcher undertook the last major reorganization of the executive branch to date, reducing the number of cabinets to nine — Justice and Public Safety, Education and Workforce Development, Environmental and Public Protection, Transportation, Economic Development, Health and Family Services, Finance and Administration, Tourism, Arts and Heritage, and Personnel.

Shortly after his elevation, three men, convicted of murdering a group of nine Native American men, women and children, believed to be Senecas, were scheduled for execution.

Shortly thereafter, in the 2001 – 02 VB Series against Australia and South Africa, he earned a player-of-the-tournament award for taking 21 wickets in nine games.

Shortly after, thousands of students held a protest at the Democracy Monument demanding the re-enrolment of the nine students.

Shortly after the 1967 World Series, Brett spent six months in the Army Reserve and missed spring training in 1968 and, in his first Triple-A outing back, was left in the game for nine innings.

Shortly after entering the Collège St. Jacques in Joigny at age nine, Louis decided to become a Catholic priest.

Shortly after being arrested, he was taken to a psychiatric ward of Oregon State Hospital for nine months.

Shortly afterwards, he was tipped off that a warrant for his arrest would be issued and he was able to disappear for nine months to live in hiding amongst the watermen of Wapping.

Shortly afterwards, Andrew made an alliance again with Leszek I and they occupied Halych where again Andrew's son was appointed to prince.

Shortly after the start of World War I, Germany launched a biological sabotage campaign in the United States, Russia, Romania, and France.

Shortly after the record was released, Love told Kurt Loder on TRL: " I cannot exist as a solo artist.

Shortly after the Roman Emperor Constantine I legalized Christianity in 321, he also constructed an elaborate second capital of the Roman Empire located at Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople, in 324.

Shortly before World War I, with the assistance of the Zoellner Quartet she determined that by placing her fingertips on a resonant tabletop she could experience music played close by.

Shortly after Bernard Montgomery had been appointed to command II Corps, Alexander was, while still on the beachhead, placed in command of I Corps, and left the beach on the last destroyer on 3 June after ensuring that all British troops had been evacuated.

Shortly following their first performance together, the band entered the studio to record the Brown-Byrd composition, " Get Up ( I Feel Like Being a ) Sex Machine ", the song further enhanced Brown's influence in funk music, moving further away from his late 1960s funk origins.

Shortly before the end of World War I, representatives of the three peoples proclaimed a Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes under King Peter I.

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, in August 1914, New Zealand sent an expeditionary force to seize and occupy German Samoa.

Shortly afterwards, Stephen sent troops to help Boleslaw I in his campaign against Kievan Rus '.

Shortly after his introduction to Guy Chambers, Williams released " Old Before I Die " which would be the first single taken from his début album.

Shortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors Valentinian II, Theodosius I and Arcadius declared homosexual sex to be illegal and those who were guilty of it were condemned to be publicly burned alive.

Shortly thereafter, Pratt and his wife presented the game to Waddingtons's executive, Norman Watson, who immediately purchased the game and provided its trademark name of " Cluedo " ( a play on " clue " and " Ludo "; ludo is Latin for I play ).

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, troops of the Russian Empire captured Allenstein in 1914, but it was recovered by the Imperial German Army in the Battle of Tannenberg.

Shortly after Syncom 3, Intelsat I, aka Early Bird, was launched on April 6, 1965 and placed in orbit at 28 ° west longitude.

Shortly afterward, she left to visit her brother, King George I of Greece, in Corfu.

Shortly thereafter, in 1492, Artois was ceded back to Marie's son Philip the Handsome, as part of an attempt to keep Philip's father, Emperor Maximilian I, neutral in French King Charles VIII's prospective invasion of Italy.

Shortly after his arrival there he received an offer from Philip I, King of France, who was also at odds with William, of a castle and lands near the borders of Normandy from which he would be able to raid his enemies ' homeland.

Shortly after his ascension, however, Władysław I Herman was forced by the barons to give up the de facto reins of government to Count Palatine Sieciech.

Shortly after World War I, he purchased a plot of land in Toulon and donated it to the local sports club, RC Toulonnais, for the building of a stadium.