By a strange twist, the Benedictines were not a mendicant order, but a stable, monastery-based order, and single-volume breviaries are rare from this early period.

By strange coincidence, in 2002 the most vocal ' Leefbaar Rotterdam ' politician Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed by an animal rights activist at Hilversum Media Park just after finishing a radio interview.

By early 1945, Americans were becoming aware that something strange was going on.

By his second wife, the daughter of the influential noble George Sursuvul, he had three sons: Peter, who succeeded as Emperor of Bulgaria in 927 and ruled until 969 ; Ivan, who rebelled against Peter in 928 and then fled to Byzantium ; and Benjamin ( Bajan ), who, according to Lombard historian Liutprand of Cremona, " possessed the power to transform himself suddenly into a wolf or other strange animal ".

By discharging a high voltage point near an insulator, he was able to record strange tree-like patterns in fixed dust.

* Stand By Your Van, where a musician relates a story of something funny or strange that happened to them on tour,

: By this time, my nose was beginning to sniff a strange odor of " fish.

By my journal I find that I had noticed this strange occurrence from June 23 to July 20 inclusive, during which period the wind varied to every quarter without making any alteration in the air.

By strange coincidence, Giles and Bremner would both score exactly 115 goals for the club, casting doubt on the modern penchant for " holding " midfield players.

* 1977: By Persons Unknown: the strange death of Christine Demeter ; George Jonas with Barbara Amiel.

In the 27 March 1925, edition of the Charleroi Mail, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, an article entitled " Whales Slain By Hairy Monster " reported that whales there were killed by a strange creature which was washed up on a beach exhausted and fell unconscious, but made its way back into the ocean and swam away after 10 days, never to be seen again.

By a strange twist of fate, his first ejection happened when manager of the Braves in a game against the Mets, on May 1, 1978.

By the next day, even the local children are talking of the strange change that seems to have come over their minister.

By a strange co-incidence he came across the body of his good friend Captain Nolan and lay down beside it.

By a strange irony, the publication of his Reditus consilium was subsequently forbidden in Venice because of its uncompromising advocacy of the supremacy of the pope over the temporal powers.

By the time of Bowie's 1974 Diamond Dogs Tour ( which was choreographed by Toni Basil ), Michael Jackson was among those attending Bowie's Los Angeles shows, later remarking on Bowie's strange moves.

By the time of William Lilly, only the Lot of Fortune continued to be used by astrologers, although in a manner that would be considered strange by ancient practitioners.

By nightfall, Vittorio arrives at the most strange of villages, for there are no beggars at the street, no elderly, no sick or dying.

:: By strange and boundless forces urged ahead,

By the end of the century Cyrano's works would inspire a number of philosophical novels, in which Frenchmen travel to foreign lands and strange utopias.

George Jonas and his wife Barbara Amiel, published By Persons Unknown: The strange death of Christine Demeter, in 1976.

By a twist of fate Rawdon dies weeks before his older brother, whose son has already died ; the baronetcy descends to Rawdon's son.

By a twist of fate, Hal becomes trapped in an elevator with famous American life coach Tony Robbins, who after talking with Hal, hypnotizes him into only seeing physical manifestations of a person's inner beauty.

By the time the 2000s came, the strip was still going strong, but with a slight twist to the usual ending of the strip ; rather than Ernest being jilted by Daisy for another man, Ernest usually ended up being beaten up, falling from a great height, or otherwise suffering some painful misfortune, which usually put him in traction.

By knowing how much force it took to twist the fiber through a given angle, Coulomb was able to calculate the force between the balls.

By controlling the voltage applied across the crystal, the amount of remaining twist can be selected.

By means of a kaleidoscope-like instrument, he can twist the minds of other people so they can perform the mind trick.

By not putting his faith in himself and in his abilities he was creating improper balancing ultimately causing not only the gift within himself to twist and fail, but also the magic of the Sword of Truth to fail.

By an ironic twist of Fate, however, Hastings himself had intervened in this murder ; by turning a revolving bookcase table while seeking out a book in order to solve a crossword clue ( coincidentally Othello again ) he had swapped the cups of coffee so that the one with poison in it was actually drunk by Mrs Franklin herself.

By a weird twist of fate, shortly in connection to the murder allegations, a short comic in Galago was published.

By the end of the day, you will be equipped to give your favorite retro song a modern twist

By using spray paint, or other mediums, the artists essentially remix and change the wall or other surface to display their twist or critique.

By that time traders had already created a regular demand for steel tools, cloth, and twist tobacco and the Dobu mission was recruiting natives to work in gold mines and copra plantations.

By a twist of fate, Buzančić became a mayor in real life in 1990, following first democratic elections in Croatia during which he supported Croatian Democratic Union.

By a twist of fate, he ends up accidentally accompanying the children on a boxcar train to Auschwitz, and he is eventually used, in Pied Piper fashion, to help lead the Jewish children to their deaths in the gas chamber.

By some twist of fate, however, Liu Bingyi would eventually become emperor ( as Emperor Xuan ) in 74 BC following the death of Crown Prince Ju's younger brother Emperor Zhao and a brief reign by their nephew, Prince He of Changyi.

By controlling leech tension, the boom vang is one of the three methods of controlling sail twist.

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.