By far the largest regional market was the Middle East, to which Brazil sold approximately 50 % of its arms from 1977 through 1988.

By 1977, in its first edition, Disk / Trend, a leading hard disk drive industry marketing consultancy segmented the industry according to MBs ( decimal sense ) of capacity.

By 1977, the Fairchild Channel F had sold 250, 000 units and was second-place behind the VCS.

By the publication of the 1977 game editions, combat was mostly resolved verbally.

By 1977 the EPLF was poised to drive the Ethiopians out of Eritrea.

By 1977 there were 15 to 20 Greenpeace groups around the world.

By 1977 there were one million unemployed people under age 24.

By 1977, Brown was no longer a dominant force in R & B.

* 1977 – Benjamin Clapp, American drummer ( Baptized By Fire, Skeleton Key, and Amfibian )

By 1977, a second wave of the punk rock movement was breaking in the three countries where it had emerged, as well as in many other places.

By the end of 1977, according to music historian Clinton Heylin, they were " England's arch-exponents of New Musick, and the true heralds of what came next.

By 1977 China had joined Intelsat and, using ground stations in Beijing and Shanghai, had linked up with satellites over the Indian and Pacific oceans.

By most accounts, Coca-Cola was India's leading soft drink until 1977 when it left India after a new government ordered The Coca-Cola Company to turn over its secret formula for Coke and dilute its stake in its Indian unit as required by the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act ( FERA ).

By September 1977, Somalia controlled 90 % of the Ogaden and captured strategic cities such as Jijiga and put heavy pressure on Dire Dawa, threatening the train route from the latter city to Djibouti.

By 1977, it had appeared in an additional 18 languages.

By 1977 the band were performing their own three-chord pop punk material, which was performed alongside cover versions at concerts, primarily at The Casbah, where the band began to perform in February.

By the summer of that year the concerts the Undertones performed would include the song " Teenage Kicks ", which had been written by guitarist John O ' Neill in the summer of 1977.

By 1977, the American Bicycle Association ( ABA ) was organized as a national sanctioning body for the growing sport.

By 1977, the company was selling a heat-resistant duct tape for heating ducts.

By 1977 boron fiber technology had been muscled out by the cheaper material of graphite and was no longer competitive in the market.

By 1977, the introduction of the second generation, known as home computers, made microcomputers considerably easier to use than their predecessors because their predecessors ' operation often demanded thorough familiarity with practical electronics.

By around 1977, most pinball machines in production switched to using solid state electronics for both operation and scoring.

By 1977, ABC had become the nation's highest-rated network.

By May 1977 twenty-seven items of merchandise had been proposed for release by companies including Palitoy, Letraset and Airfix.

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 the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.

By 1965, several or all of these systems will have been fully tested and their reliability established.

By 1853, the new partnership announced the precision vernier caliper as the first fruit of their joint efforts.

By their pattern of endogamy and exogamy, the core families and the marginal families show distinct limits to the intergroup contact they maintain.

By the time pupils reach the sixth grade, their ethical and moral standards are fairly well developed ; ;

By preying on the sick, by playing callously on the hopes of the desperate, by causing the sufferer to delay proper medical care, these medical ghouls create pain and misery by their very activity.

By and large their programs are satisfactorily connected both to the employment situation and to the realities of the apprentice system.

By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.

By making comparisons across cultural traditions ( time-based ) and cultural regions ( space-based ), anthropologists have developed various kinds of comparative method, a central part of their science.

By this time they have undergone metamorphosis, lost their eyes and gills, developed a thicker skin and mouth tentacles, and reabsorbed their teeth.

By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

By studying these images, they can detect solar system objects by their movements relative to the background stars, which remain fixed.

By the beginning of the 8th century, these kingdoms had either been conquered by Nicene neighbors ( Ostrogoths, Vandals, Burgundians ) or their rulers had accepted Nicene Christianity ( Visigoths, Lombards ).

By the fall of that year, their benefactor Haines died suddenly and the Alcotts again suffered financial difficulty.

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

By the conditions accepted in the treaty, the Avars were to take possession of Pannonia and the Lombards were promised military support in Italy should the need arise ; also, for a period of 200 years the Lombards were to maintain the right to reclaim their former territories if the plan to conquer Italy failed, thus leaving Alboin with an alternative open.

By their assistance and that of his own subjects, who entertained a great attachment for him, he recovered Epirus.

By the beginning of 1204, Isaac II and Alexios IV had inspired little confidence among the people of Constantinople in their efforts to defend the city from the Latins and Venetians, who were restless and rioted when the money and aid promised by Alexios IV was not forthcoming.

By " chance ", he means all those particular comprehensible events which the viewer considers possible in accord with their experience.

By leaving large sums of money to their children, wealthy business leaders were wasting resources that could be used to benefit society.

By that point, Apple was deep in their ultimately doomed Copland efforts.

By the third millennium BCE, widespread civilizations had developed sophisticated awareness of celestial cycles, and are believed to have consciously oriented their temples to create alignment with the heliacal risings of the stars.