By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

By December 1863 a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery absolutely was brought to Congress for passage.

By December 1790 Phillip was ready to return to England, but the colony had largely been forgotten in London and no instructions reached him, so he carried on.

By December they decided to try his plan and made him a Colonel.

By a decree of 27 December 1999, the constitution was suspended and all the institutions of government were dissolved.

By December, the capital city of Nanjing had fallen to the Japanese, and Chiang moved the government inland, first to Wuhan and later to Chongqing.

By December 2001, it was ratified by the ECMA, with ISO standardization following in April 2003.

By December 1918, he left his father's home to attempt to find a job in San Francisco, California.

By December 1981, however, the U. S. had already begun to support armed opponents of the Sandinista regime.

By the time of the national assembly elections in December 1992, only three had qualified.

By December 5, 1969, the entire four-node network was established.

By the afternoon of 20 December Vitellius was dead, his armies having been defeated by the Flavian legions.

By the middle of December, some high-speed runs were made, in excess of but still well below Campbell's existing record.

By December 2006, over 1, 237, 000 square kilometers of forest land in Canada ( about half the global total ) had been certified as being sustainably managed ( Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition ).

By the end of July 1948 Orwell was able to return to Jura and by December he had finished the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

By the first week in December 2005, it had sold over 1 million physical copies.

By December 1958, the game Gettysburg from the Avalon Hill company had particularly captured Gygax's attention.

By late December to early January, eastern grays begin to arrive in the calving lagoons of Baja.

By December 1941, Hitler's troops had advanced to within 20 miles of the Kremlin in Moscow.

By December 1996 the Conservatives had lost their majority in the House of Commons.

By December 5, three months after leaving Los Angeles, Carson had brought Kearny's men to within of their destination San Diego.

By the end of the second day, December 7, the Americans were nearly out of food and water, low on ammunition and weak from the journey along the Gila River.

By December 10, Kearny believed all hope was gone, and planned to attempt a breakout the next morning.

By 28 December, the museum was cleared of most works, except those that were too heavy and " unimportant paintings were left in the basement ".

By December 15, 2010 it broke the record for longest serving spacecraft at Mars, with 3, 340 days of operation, claiming the title from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.

By the time of Operation Overlord in June 1944, the Allies had gained near complete air superiority over the Western Front.

By mid-1942, the Allies began to regroup and while some Allied aircraft such as the Brewster Buffalo and the P-39 were hopelessly outclassed by fighters like Japan's Zero, others such as the Army's P-40 and the Navy's Wildcat possessed attributes such as superior firepower, ruggedness and dive speed, and the Allies soon developed tactics ( such as the Thach weave ) to take advantage of these strengths.

By 1943, the Allies began to gain the upper hand in the Pacific Campaign's air campaigns.

By defeating Russia in 1917 Germany was able to bring hundreds of thousands of combat troops from the east to the Western Front, giving it a numerical advantage over the Allies.

By 1941, Germany had given up hope of evicting the Allies from the island and the constant air raids stopped.

By the beginning of 1945, with the Soviets on the Oder and the Western Allies preparing to cross the Rhine, Goebbels could no longer disguise the fact that defeat was inevitable.

By shutting down the German industry the Allies disrupted intra-European trade, a trade that was vital for European recovery, and they thereby delayed European economic recovery.

By this time the Allies were already reading Naval Enigma routinely.

By early 1947, the Allies held 90, 000 Nazis in detention ; another 1, 900, 000 were forbidden to work as anything but manual labourers.

By threatening any weakened Norwegian defence the Allies hoped to prevent or delay reinforcement of France following the Normandy invasion.

By an exercise of brilliant psychological deception, and a secretive night march covering nearly 40 miles in 18 hours, the Allies penetrated the allegedly impregnable lines without losing a single man ; Marlborough was now in position to besiege the fortress of Bouchain.

By 11 June it was evident that the Allies could not be dislodged from their beach-head in Normandy.

By this time, Saipan had fallen to the Allies.

By February 18, after desperate fighting, the Allies ' Final Beachhead Line ( prepared defenses more or less on the line of the original beachhead ) was under attack.

By 8 September 1943, when Italy surrendered to the Allies, only around 60 of the aircraft were in flying condition.

By shielding Barcelona in this way the Allies kept Spain in the war for two more years.

By the spring 1944, the Luftwaffe could not effectively challenge the Allies over France or the Low Countries.

By that time the Allies had already landed thousands of troops, vehicles and hundreds of tanks.

By the night of 16 / 17 August, Army Group G headquarters realized that they could not drive the Allies back into the sea.

By December 1942, with Allied forces advancing through Tunisia the North African campaign was coming to a close ; with victory in North Africa imminent, discussions began among the Allies regarding the nature of their next objective.

By that time Brazil had also sent a Naval Force, the Naval Division in War Operations ( DNOG ), commanded by Pedro Max Frontin to join the Allies ' Naval Forces in the Mediterranean.

By September 1944 the Western Allies had reached Germany's western border, which was protected by the extensive Siegfried Line.

By 22 April, the Allies took the position after hard fighting and the rest of the troops fled and held out in the west for another two months.