By the end of the 1960s, admission to CUNY's flagship City College had become highly competitive.

By his own admission, Hubbard made what he considered was one of the greatest mistakes of his life when he used the biological definition of engram as a " trace on a cell ", which was not in line with the proper biological definition.

By the 18th century, the menagerie was open to the public ; admission cost three half-pence or the supply of a cat or dog to be fed to the lions.

By Jennings ' own admission in interviews, his son, Shooter Jennings, was the main inspiration to quit permanently.

By the age of 41 he had declined so far in health that his arms were by his own admission thin and weak.

By his own admission in his 1919 Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, he " attempted to discover some flaw in Cantor's proof that there is no greatest cardinal ".

By their own admission, the band have never been fashionable in the eyes of the media.

By his own admission, Widukind first wrote several Christian hagiographies before he began his Res gestae saxonicae.

By Mobutu's own admission, the union would serve as an instrument of support for government policy, rather than as a force for confrontation.

By his own admission, by early 1969, I think, he had lost, what, a half million soldiers?

By his own admission, while at Oxford University, Neave did only the minimal amount of academic work that was required of him by his tutors.

By then he had ( by his own admission ) mastered the skills needed — in the era before DNA profiling — to leave minimal incriminating evidence at a crime scene.

By 2000, a majority of undergraduates at such elite public California schools as UC Berkeley and UCLA, which are obligated by law to not consider race as a factor in admission, were Asian American.

By their own admission this Leadmill gig was one of the band's most successful.

By the administration's own admission, the announcements were poorly handled, and there was widespread criticism of several key aspects, namely the nationality and experience of appointees, the transparency of the recruitment process and the level of officials ' salaries.

By the end of January, the admission bill, along with the boundary issue, was locked in the judiciary committee of both Houses of Congress.

By his own admission, Perle acquired the reputation of an influential figure who preferred to work in the background, a reputation that has followed him through the years in both the public and private sectors.

By his own admission, he is very handsome.

By his own admission a bit of a dabbler ( touche-à-tout ), Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generation, with a major influence on post-1960 Quebec intellectual life.

By Kapuściński's own admission ( made in an interview given to the Union of Polish Youth's newspaper, the Sztandar Młodych, in August 1977 ), he on occasion himself participated in armed combat in Angola on the side of the MPLA.

By the 1920s the question of " open membership ," or " admission of the pious unimmersed to membership " had arisen as an additional source of tension.

By his own admission he was " losing it badly " and ranted about his dead father, saying that any " funny business " would result in him " snapping necks ".

By 1881, when the school registers begin, Maria Unwin was headmistress, and the first pupil on the roll was Henry Alfred Robinson ; eighty-seven years later the final admission, Sharon Redfearn was number 1, 068.

( By his own admission, over thirty years later, he still could not speak the language well although he had lived with the Hidatsa nearly continuously.

By the time they reach that age, however, Aristotle no longer worries about the evil influence of comedies.

By 1700, approximately 20 percent of Berlin's residents were French, and their cultural influence on the city was immense.

By 1931, the National Socialist German Workers ' Party was starting to gain influence and control in German politics.

By contrast, in ceremonial monarchies, the monarch holds little actual power or direct political influence.

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 demanding that leaders of the Church be a one woman man, Paul excluded remarried widowers from having influence.

By the 18th century, however, Geneva had come under the influence of Catholic France, which cultivated the city elite, who tended to be at odds with the ordinary townsfolk – to the point that an abortive revolution took place in 1782.

By then, the emperors had lost their influence in Italy and Burgundy.

By the eastward settlement the Empire's influence increased to eventually include Pomerania and Silesia – also due to intermarriage of the local, still mostly Slavic, rulers with German spouses.

By the influence of William Russell, earl of Bedford, he was appointed one of the king's itinerant preachers in Lancashire, and after living for a time in Garstang, he was selected by the Lady Margaret Hoghton as vicar of Preston.

By the end of the 15th century was widely professed and taught in many theological faculties, but such was the influence of the Dominicans, and the weight of the arguments of Thomas Aquinas ( who had been canonised in 1323 and declared " Doctor Angelicus " of the Church in 1567 ) that the Council of Trent ( 1545 – 63 )— which might have been expected to affirm the doctrine — instead declined to take a position.

By the end of World War II, a handful of Cambodians had joined its ranks, but their influence on the Indochinese communist movement and on developments within Cambodia was negligible.

By changing the balance it is possible to influence the anisotropy of the etching, since the chemical part is isotropic and the physical part highly anisotropic the combination can form sidewalls that have shapes from rounded to vertical.

By about 250 BC, the Parthian dynasty brought the Persian Gulf under their control and extended their influence as far as Oman.

By the 1820s, Gluckian influence in France had given way to a taste for Italian bel canto, especially after the arrival of Rossini in Paris.

By this time, however, Panama ’ s importance and influence had become insignificant as Spain ’ s power dwindled in Europe and advances in navigation technique increasingly permitted to round Cape Horn in order to reach the Pacific.

By the 1920s however the Senate had lost much of its original influence, and hence no sitting senator had been known to have serious aspirations of becoming prime minister whilst remaining in the Senate.

By being translated as well as imitated, Plautus was a major influence on comedy of the Elizabethan era.

By coming down solidly on the side of Spanish interests, in part because Gregory XIV was elected due to the influence of the Spanish cardinals, the recent papal policy of trying to maintain a balance between Spain and France was abandoned.

By the 17th century the influence of Renaissance painting resulted in Russian icons becoming slightly more realistic, while still following most of the old icon painting canons, as seen in the works of Bogdan Saltanov, Simon Ushakov, Gury Nikitin, Karp Zolotaryov and other Russian artists of the era.

By the early 20th century, interest in reincarnation had been introduced into the nascent discipline of psychology, largely due to the influence of William James, who raised aspects of the philosophy of mind, comparative religion, the psychology of religious experience and the nature of empiricism.

By Powell's own account, Ingram was a major influence on him.

By this time however, the influence of Slobodan Milošević was confined to Serbia only as Montenegro had experienced internal regime change in 1996 when former Milošević ally Milo Đukanović reversed his policies, showed resilience by becoming leader of his party and subsequently dismissing former Montenegrin leader Momir Bulatović, a man who remained loyal to Milošević.

By 1871 he had met and befriended most of the major Pre-Raphaelite painters and it was in part due to their influence that the artist brightened his palette, varied his hues, and lightened his brushwork.

By 1970 the DGI had managed to train hundreds of Sandinista guerrilla leaders and had vast influence over the organization.