By 1433, as a result of the defeat of the last countess of Holland in the Hook and Cod Wars, the Duke of Burgundy had assumed control over most of the Dutch-speaking territories and the concept of a nation of Dutch-speaking people was conceived.

By 1433 most of the Belgian and Luxembourgian territory along with much of the rest of the Low Countries became part of Burgundy under Philip the Good.

By its terms, the Pope recalled his bull of dissolution, and, reserving all the rights of the Holy See, acknowledged the council as ecumenical on 15 December 1433 except for the initial unapproved sessions that contained canons which exalted conciliar authority above that of the pope.

By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

By now Curt was seeing clearly again.

By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

By our policy the West was -- is -- split.

By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.

By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

By odd coincidence, on the evening of her return Shelley chose to read Parisina, which was the latest of the titled poet's successes.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

By Nov. 8, 1958, weakness, specifically involving the pelvic and thigh musculature, was pronounced, and a common complaint was `` difficulty in stepping up on to curbs ''.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

Morton wrote the column until 1975 ; it was revived in January 1996 and continues today, written by William Hartston, though the name " By the Way " has been dropped in favour of simply " Beachcomber ".

By 1976, the landfill was completed ; in many cases, the pre-existing piers were simply buried.

By simply denying that an efficient first cause is problematic, being easily explained as the creative action of an omnipotent God, medieval theologians re-purposed and enhanced Aristotle's argument, as if the intention had been to prove God's existence.

By simply rewriting the mathematical expression one can save 50 % of the multiplications required.

By no means do all Greek epigrams behave this way ; many are simply descriptive.

By the 14th century the qualifiers " moresca " and " latina " had been dropped and these two cordophones were usually simply referred to as guitars.

By the time of the movies distinct battle classes were not necessary as the Republic had not seen war in over a thousand years, and the title of Knight was simply a rank once again.

By this, man, as he stands in relation to man simply, hath liberty to do what he lists ; it is a liberty to evil as well as to good.

By the time of the First World War, the mass advertising and popularity of the Victor Talking Machine Company's Victrolas ( a line of disc-playing machines characterized by their concealed horns ) was leading to widespread generic use of the word " victrola " for any machine that played discs, which were however still called " phonograph records " or simply " records ", almost never " victrola records ".

By the one-seed theory, the germ of every embryo is contained entirely in the male seed, and the role of the mother is simply as an incubator and provider of food: on this view only a patrilineal relative is genetically related.

By Segal's definition, all religious stories are myths — but simply because nearly all stories are myths.

By simply holding the fire button down, the player can build up energy in their ship, drawing in tiny, glowing particles through the ship's nose.

By synecdoche the term " Sabbath " in the New Testament may also mean simply a " se ' nnight " or seven-day week, namely, the interval between two Sabbaths.

By simply selling their work for wages, " workers simultaneously lose connection with the object of labor and become objects themselves.

Alcoholic strength is expressed on the label with " Alcohol By Volume " (" ABV ") or sometimes simply " Vol ".

By simply building and launching large quantities of rockets, and hence launching a large volume of payload, costs can be brought down.

By this time the torpedo boat, the first of which had been built at the shipyards of Sir John Thornycroft in 1877, had gained recognition for its effectiveness, and the first torpedo boat destroyers ( later simply destroyers ) were built to counter it.

The first was on the right side with the channel number, call signs and city, then the second was the blue bar and the call letters only By the late 1990s, the call signs were minimized to be just barely readable to meet FCC requirements, and the stations were simply known as " UPN ", then channel number or city ( e. g., WPWR-TV in Chicago had been referred to as " UPN Chicago " and WWOR-TV in New York was referred to as " UPN 9 " until The CW merger was announced in late January 2006 ).

By and large, the theories of existentialism assert that conscious reality is very complex and without an " objective " or universally known value: the individual must create value by affirming it and living it, not by simply talking about it or philosophising it in the mind.

By contrast, ext2 and other Berkeley FFS-like file systems of that time simply used a fixed formula for computing inode locations, hence limiting the number of files they may contain.

By the 4th century, villa could simply connote an agricultural holding: Jerome translated the Gospel of Mark ( xiv, 32 ) chorion, describing the olive grove of Gethsemane, with villa, without an inference that there were any dwellings there at all ( Catholic Encyclopedia " Gethsemane ").

By some accounts, Harold and Dorothy had simply grown apart after Washington was sent to war during the first year of his marriage.

By contrast, Ponzi schemes can survive simply by persuading most existing participants to reinvest their money, with a relatively small number of new participants.

By late 1966, the Diggers opened free stores which simply gave away their stock, provided free food, distributed free drugs, gave away money, organized free music concerts, and performed works of political art.

By the end of the Republican era, a name for an aristocratic male citizen comprised three parts ( tria nomina ): praenomen ( given name ), nomen ( or nomen gentile or simply gentilicium, being the name of the gens or clan ) and cognomen ( name of a family line within the gens ).