By a further act of 1541 — which was not repealed until 1845 — artificers, labourers, apprentices, servants and the like were forbidden to play bowls at any time except Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence.

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

By Christmas Eve, Zogu had reclaimed the capital, and Noli and his government had fled to Italy.

By 2007 the " Bjäre julmust " was only sold at McDonald's restaurants and it had completely disappeared from Coca-Colas range of products by Christmas 2008, only to return for Christmas 2011.

By 1969, military interest in Christmas Island had ceased and the facilities were abandoned and for the most part dismantled.

By contrast, the Christmas tree in spite of frequent association with Thor's Oak cannot be shown to be an innovation predating the Early Modern period.

By Christmas, the number of 32X consoles sold had reached 500, 000.

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By the mid 1980s the Father's Council wrote that "(...) Day has become a ' Second Christmas ' for all the men's gift-oriented industries.

Karen Knowles had a string of Gold Records, and continues to perform regularly around Australia-including performances at various Christmas Concerts, including Melbourne's annual " Carols By Candlelight " and at the 2010 " Lord Mayors Carols In The City " at the Riverstage in Brisbane.

By 1849, Dickens was engaged with David Copperfield and had neither the time nor the inclination to produce another Christmas book.

By 2100, the Coptic Christmas will be on the Gregorian date of 8 January.

By December of 1854 this area that Dyer had been calling Pomfret was renamed Rushford after a vote during a Christmas dinner served at Dyer's home.

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By Christmas 1756, as no response had been received to diplomatic letters to the Nawab, Admiral Charles Watson and Clive were dispatched to attack the Nawab's army and remove him from Calcutta by force.

By putting all these ideas together on his return from the Paris family holiday, the Christmas Cracker was born complete with a surprise novelty gift, a trinket, a tissue paper hat, a snap to make a bang when pulled apart and a piece of paper with a joke or motto-a maxim of appropriate character to express a principle or ideal suited to the occasion.

By this time, the oil rigs and workover rigs used to drill and complete the well have moved off the wellbore, and the top is usually outfitted with a collection of valves called a Christmas tree or Production trees.

By then 45 members had been imprisoned of which 25 were released before Christmas.

By Christmas 1914 they were anxious about the war ; it was not, in their opinion, going well, and yet they were restricted to serving on committees and making recruitment speeches.

By Christmas 1932, he had logged 150 hours flying and had obtained a B2 certificate.

By the early part of the 20th century, Christmas had become a " cultural signature " of Christianity and indeed of the Western culture even in countries such as the United States which are officially non-religious.

By the 13th century, the Franciscans had encouraged a strong tradition of popular Christmas songs in the native languages.

By Christmas 1968, 87 % of the squadron's support personnel were ANG members.

By 19 December 1915, General Sir Douglas Haig had replaced General Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ).

By 26 May, the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) and the French First Army were bottled up in a corridor to the sea, about deep and wide.

By December 1916 there were 183 AA Sections defending Britain ( most with the 3-inch ), 74 with the BEF in France and 10 in the Middle East.

By April 1915 the BEF had grown to 900, 000 men in 28 divisions.

By then, the BEF had already conquered Monte Prano, and taken control of the Serchio valley without any major casualties.

By the standards of Continental European armies, the BEF was, in 1914, exceedingly small.

By 20 May, Wehrmacht armored divisions had reached the coast of the English Channel, splitting the BEF from the French First Army and from the main French forces.

By that time, many former handicraft workers had been forced to seek employment in the emerging manufacturing industries, using not closely guarded techniques but standardized methods controlled by corporations.

By the end of 1984, Chernenko could hardly leave the Central Clinical Hospital, a heavily guarded facility in west Moscow, and the Politburo was affixing a facsimile of his signature to all letters, as Chernenko had done with Andropov's when he was dying.

By mid-July, his 100, 000-man army had besieged Vienna ( guarded by 10, 000 Habsburg soldiers ), following in the footsteps of Suleiman the Magnificent in 1529.

By 2002, it had been abandoned and partially overblown with sand, inhabited only by a few Imraguen fishermen and guarded by a Mauritanian military outpost, despite this not being formally Mauritanian territory.

After their defeat at the polls in October, Petigru advised Jackson that he should " Be prepared to hear very shortly of a State Convention and an act of Nullification .” On October 19, 1832 Jackson wrote to his Secretary of War, “ The attempt will be made to surprise the Forts and garrisons by the militia, and must be guarded against with vestal vigilance and any attempt by force repelled with prompt and exemplary punishment .” By mid-November Jackson ’ s reelection was assured.

By this time Royal Malta Artillery now guarded the Grand Harbour.

By March 2006, the city was being guarded by elements of the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion ( LAR ) and an Iraqi rifle company from the 3d Brigade, 7th Infantry Division, Iraqi Army.

By the mid-1950s about 500, 000 people ( roughly 10 % of Malaya's population ) had been moved into compounds, termed ' New Villages ', which were surrounded by high barbed wire fences and guarded by police.

By late 1915 the Germans had achieved air superiority, making Allied access to vital intelligence derived from continual aerial reconnaissance more dangerous to acquire.

By reference to the continual to-and-fro motion associated with that, the term was then applied in transportation and then in other spheres.

By 1833, he felt it was sufficiently complete that preparations for publication could begin, though continual lack of time and means prevented it from appearing in its entirety during his lifetime.

By 2005 continual use had taken its toll on the track and a rebuilding project funded by a federal TEA-21 grant took place.

By the summer of 1973 there were rumors of squadron reductions, and deactivation of the squadron was announced officially in March 1974 as a result of the continual downsizing since the 1958 moratorium.

By late 1915 the Germans had achieved air superiority, making Allied access to vital intelligence derived from continual aerial reconnaissance more dangerous to acquire.

By 1955 the Pioneer Zephyr < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s route had been updated to run between Galesburg, Illinois, and Saint Joseph, Missouri ; the trainset had been in continual service since 1934, operating over nearly 3 million miles ( 4. 8 million kilometres ).

By 2006 continual regeneration of the upper Ord catchment appeared to have reduced the amount of sediment inflow.

By 1940 the water users of the Kings River were leaning towards letting the USACE build the dam, in light of the continual water-rights problems associated with the USBR's plans, in addition to full federal funding offered by the USACE.