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By chance he encountered a copy of " Captain Claridge's work on the ' Water Cure ,' as practised by Priessnitz, at Graefenberg ", and " making allowances for certain exaggerations therein ", pondered the option of travelling to Graefenberg, but preferred to find something closer to home, with access to his own doctors in case of failure: " I who scarcely lived through a day without leech or potion!
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By " chance ", he means all those particular comprehensible events which the viewer considers possible in accord with their experience.
By both chance and providence, Ruth, a destitute, widowed and childless outsider, becomes an ancestress of King David ( Ruth 4: 13 ).
By the 1st century BCE, noxii were being condemned to the beasts ( damnati ad bestias ) in the arena, with almost no chance of survival, or were made to kill each other.
" By chance, a 35 mm nitrate composite master positive ( fine grain ) of the 1945 version survived.
By chance, Sally Hemings, a younger sister of James, was chosen ; she lived in the Jefferson household in Paris for about two years.
By December 1838, he had noted a similarity between the act of breeders selecting traits and a Malthusian Nature selecting among variants thrown up by " chance " so that " every part of newly acquired structure is fully practical and perfected ".
By December, after a chance encounter with chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, Doug Morris, Amos signed a " joint venture " deal with Universal Republic Records.
Few could disagree with McGonagall's closing judgement: ' I must now conclude my lay / By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay / That your central girders would not have given way ,/ At least many sensible men do say ,/ Had they been supported on each side with buttresses ,/ At least many sensible men confesses ,/ For the stronger we our houses do build ,/ The less chance we have of being killed '.
By chance, both spacecraft flew over cratered regions and missed both the giant northern volcanoes and the equatorial grand canyon discovered later.
By bonding ( interconnecting ) all exposed non-current carrying metal objects together, they should remain near the same potential thus reducing the chance of a shock.
By chance, he runs into an apologetic Sam.
By removing this rule, the stress on the joints and soft-tissue, as well as the chance of a fall, were decreased.
By calculating the area under the relevant portion of the graph for 50 trials, the archaeologist can say that there is practically no chance the site was inhabited in the 11th and 12th centuries, about 1 % chance that it was inhabited during the 13th century, 63 % chance during the 14th century and 36 % during the 15th century.
By chance, a mistaken order from General Rosecrans caused a gap to appear in the Union line and Longstreet took additional advantage of it to increase his chances of success.
By the end of February, relegation threatened, and when Newcastle offered Ardiles the chance to become their new boss, he accepted, becoming the club's first foreign manager.
By chance, one week later, Sgt Matt O ' Mara of No. 453 Squadron RAAF also crash landed on Bintan, and arranged for them to be collected.
By Markov's Inequality, the chance that it will yield an answer before we stop it is 1 / 2.
By July 2010 when a further six cats had been imported into the UK from Australia there was the chance to widen the gene pool and offer healthy, happy, genetically sound kittens to pet buyers within the UK and the US.
By chance he was in a summer camp in 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World War and was granted a regular, not wartime, commission in the British Army, in the Scots Guards, later serving in the 6th Guards Tank Brigade, a separate unit from the Guards Armoured Division.
By chance, Keaty and Jed end up working in the same building, although for different companies ; coincidentally like how they both stayed in the same guest house that burned down a few years before they both arrived at the beach.
By chance, an aging Acrisius was there and Perseus accidentally struck him on the head with his javelin ( or discus ), fulfilling the prophecy.
By chance, he is spotted by Odysseus and Diomedes while they are on a secret raid to plunder the Trojans.
By and encountered
By 1967, however, Frei encountered increasing opposition from leftists, who charged that his reforms were inadequate, and from conservatives, who found them excessive.
By his own account, he spent a great deal of time in the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital's library, where he would have encountered the work of Freud and other psychoanalysts.
By 1985, the group had encountered Burlington, Vermont luthier Paul Languedoc, who would eventually design two guitars for Anastasio and two basses for Gordon.
By September 1945, control of major infrastructure installations, including railway stations and trams in Java's largest cities, had been taken over by Republican pemuda who encountered little Japanese resistance.
By the time European powers were capable of sending ships to Chinese waters, Chinese isolationism had resulted in these developments being abandoned and forgotten, and construction halted on all but the smallest types of junks so that what they encountered were coastal defence ships comparable to European sloops and not the purported 137-metre-long ( 450 ft ) and 55-metre-wide ( 180 ft ) treasure ships Admiral Zheng He commanded.
By historic times, the Chitimacha and Atakapa inhabited the area and were the American Indians encountered by Spanish and French explorers and settlers.
By the Orontes the Battle of Qarqar was fought in 853 BC, when the army of Assyria, led by king Shalmaneser III, encountered an allied army of 12 kings led by Hadadezer of Damascus.
By the 24th century, Universal Translators are built into the communicator pins worn by Starfleet personnel, although, since crew members ( such as Riker in the Next Generation episode “ First Contact ”) have spoken to newly encountered aliens even when deprived of their communicators, some other factor must also be at work.
By Christmas Day, she was southwest of Greenland, when she encountered the British armed merchant cruiser Avenger.
By around 1100, the distinct Iroquoian and Algonquian cultures that would eventually be encountered by Europeans had developed.
By the end of 1875, one German trader reported: " German trade and German ships are encountered everywhere, almost at the exclusion of any other nation ".
By chance Morgan and the young Parker encountered each other in an Albany book store.
By December 1937, after the defeat of the Chinese soldiers, the Japanese soldiers would often go house-to-house in Nanking, shooting any civilians they encountered.
By then, Selig Polyscope had encountered severe financial difficulties, and Tom Mix and Victoria Forde both subsequently signed with Fox Film Corporation, which had leased the Edendale studio.
By using gravity to lower the slide into the projector, the chance of jamming was greatly reduced, since a warped slide would not descend past the point at which it encountered resistance in the mechanism.
By the 1860s both societies encountered financial difficulties and, on the advice of the evolutionary biologist Thomas Huxley, Owens College ( now the University of Manchester ) accepted responsibility for the collections in 1867.
By this time, Reed had met John Cale and was interested in starting a band, so when they encountered Morrison, he was invited to join.
By a similar token, the deamination of cytosine leads to uracil, whereas a deamination of a commonly encountered ( in eukaryotes ) 5-methylcytosine will lead to thymine.
By this time, the National Road had also reached Springfield, but the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad had encountered difficulties in raising capital, and construction and would be delayed for three years in reaching Springfield and closing the gap in the plan to link the Great Lakes with the Ohio River.
By the 1750s, the Kowita had developed such a powerful military machine that they could consistently defeat any branch of the Cherokee that they encountered.
By mid-morning, Hotze's advanced guard had encountered moderate French resistance first from the two brigades Ney had at his disposal.
By the end of its first year in 1898, Tau Phi Delta had 10 members, but the new Fraternity encountered membership struggles at the turn of the 19th to 20th century.
By mid-January the Japanese had reached Johore where, on 14 January, they encountered troops from the Australian 8th Division, commanded by Major-General Gordon Bennett, for the first time in the campaign.
By 1955 he encountered the rock ' n ' roll of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley ; after leaving school in 1956, aged 15, Merritt formed The Meteors with friends Ross Clancy ( sax ), Peter Patonai ( piano ), Ian Glass ( bass ) and Pete Sowden ( drums ).
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