By 1982, the perceived passivity of the FARC, together with the relative success of the government's efforts against the M-19 and ELN, enabled the administration of the Liberal Party's Julio César Turbay ( 1978 – 1982 ) to lift a state-of-siege decree that had been in effect, on and off, for most of the previous 30 years.

By Christmas of 1982, Coleco had sold more than 500, 000 units, in part on the strength of its bundled game.

By 1982 the stagnation of the Soviet economy was obvious, as evidenced by the fact that the Soviet Union had been importing grain from the U. S. throughout the 1970s, but the system was so firmly entrenched that any real change seemed impossible.

By 1982 after all of Sinai was returned to Egypt, the central government divided the peninsula into two governorates.

By 1982, oil would constitute half of Ghana's imports, while overall trade contracted greatly.

By 1982, only four players and three starting pitchers remained from the 1980 squad.

By early 1982, the Iraqi occupation forces were on the defensive and were being forced to retreat from some of their forward lines.

By 1982, sales were soaring.

In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.

By the end of 1982 it was obvious that the popular former trade union leader Bob Hawke was going to replace Hayden as Labor leader.

By 1982, increased income from the " coca boom " allowed them to expand into an irregular army, which would then stage large-scale attacks on Colombian troops.

By then, a neo-Campbellian revival of hard science fiction after 1982 at the hands of David Brin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and others had emerged.

By 1982, however, Peckinpah's health was in poor shape.

* 1982 – Jesse Blaze Snider, American singer-songwriter, illustrator, and writer ( Baptized By Fire )

By 1982, Iraq was on the defensive and looking for ways to end the war.

By the 1960s, tracks of 333. 3m length were commonly used for international competitions ( eg: the Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome used for track cycling events at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and Leicester's Saffron Lane velodrome used at the 1970 and 1982 Track Cycling World Championships ).

By 1963 a quarter of Venezuelan households had television ; a figure rising to 45 % by 1969 and 85 % by 1982.

By 1963 a quarter of Venezuelan households had television ; a figure rising to 45 % by 1969 and 85 % by 1982.

By the time Washington faced re-election in 1982, he had cemented his popularity in the 1st Congressional District.

By the end of 1982 Doe Maar notched up their first number 1-hit with De Bom, a joint Ernst -/ Henny-composition with the underlying message ' What's the point of making a career / doing your homework when the ( atomic ) bomb can drop at any moment?

By 1982, they were jumping from mobile cranes and hot air balloons.

By the 1980s, Māori leaders began to recognize the dangers of the loss of their language, and initiated Māori-language recovery-programs such as the Kōhanga Reo movement, which from 1982 immersed infants in Māori from infancy to school age.

By the end of 1981, Kelly had replaced Jelliman, with Trewavas replacing Minnett in 1982.

By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

By applying this general principle, a great number of complex compounds of osmium, ruthenium, iridium, and rhenium, with triphenylphosphine, triphenylarsine, and triphenylstibine have been obtained in this laboratory during the past few years.

By 1907 the number of undergraduates had risen to 1,107.

By its inclusion the order has grown enormously in number of species.

By making the mass number of soldiers blend within the landscape / painting, it shows that he believed that the usage and depiction of landscape was just as significant as a historical event, such as a war.

By the 18th century an increasing number of new plants had arrived in Europe from newly discovered countries and the European colonies worldwide and a larger number of plants became available for study.

By measuring the mean squared displacement over a time interval along with the universal gas constant, the temperature, the viscosity, and the particle radius, Avogadro's number can be determined.

By this point their number of MPs was severely depleted.

By now the rebel forces were said to have numbered 230, 000, however, this number should be treated with scepticism — Dio's account is known only from a late epitome, and ancient sources commonly exaggerate enemy numbers.

By the late 1950s, the once-prosperous port area of downtown Manhattan was occupied by a number of dilapidated shipping piers, casualties of the rise of container shipping which drove sea traffic to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey.

By attempting to predict which branch ( or path ) a conditional instruction will take, the CPU can minimize the number of times that the entire pipeline must wait until a conditional instruction is completed.

By the mid-20th century, the number of examples of people skipping stages, such as going from hunter-gatherers to post-industrial service occupations in one generation, were so numerous that 19th-century evolutionism was effectively disproved.

By convention, a calendar year consists of a natural number of days.

By far the most visible and obvious power of many modern central banks is to influence market interest rates ; contrary to popular belief, they rarely " set " rates to a fixed number.

By the end of 2005, the number of telephone main lines in use totaled 7, 851, 649.

By the time of Howard's suicide in 1936, he had written 21 complete stories, 17 of which had been published, as well as a number of unfinished fragments.

By contrast, the album had limited success in the US, only reaching number 83 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart.

By reducing the number of tracks used ( and thus the capacity ), Commodore could further reduce cost-in contrast to the double-density drives used e. g. in IBM PCs of the day which saved 180 KB on one side ( by using a 40-track format ).

By 1968, the number of dance clubs started to decline ; most American clubs either closed or were transformed into clubs featuring live bands.

By connecting to the Forgotten Tribe's settlements ( represented by number tokens ), players may earn cloth tokens when the number token for the Forgotten Tribe's villages are rolled.

By contrast, integrated circuits packed a large number — often millions — of tiny electrical components, mainly transistors, into a small chip around the size of a coin.

By the early 18th century, other publishers began to issue collections of dances as well ; a conservative estimate of the number of dances in the English style published between 1651 and 1810 would run to around 20, 000.

By inserting the energetic definitions of the ionization potential and electron affinity into the Mulliken electronegativity, it is possible to show that the Mulliken chemical potential is a finite difference approximation of the electronic energy with respect to the number of electrons., i. e.,