A privy council composed of the Meiji genro, created prior to the constitution, advised the emperor and wielded actual power.
Songs released after 1972 are protected by federal copyright laws, but the laws concerning music created prior to that vary state-to-state.
The selection of 70 works on view avoids literal representations of 9/11; in fact, most of the work was created prior to that day.
I would suggest visiting those uniquely Venetian sights before even considering Peggy Guggenheim's house, and I'd skip the Palazzo Grassi entirely in favor of art created prior to this century.
In one of his first acts as president, Mr. Bush restricted federal financing for embryonic stem cell research to what turned out to be 20 or so stem cell lines that had been created prior to his announcement.
A low-frequency collimated beam was thus created prior to its propagation into the drilling fluid.
This created prior art that could effectively render the sequence material unpatentable.
Thus, early Muslims believed, like many Jews, that their holy book had been created prior to the cosmos.
The project reminds me a lot of Recognizr, the facial recognition mobile app from The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), created prior to TAT's acquisition by RIM.
