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 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!

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 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 counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

By what one reader called a `` series of dissolving views '', he merges one period into another and gives a sense of continuous growth.

By then one begins to notice the middle-age spread ; ;

By sharing the load of important speeches with his colleagues, the president can develop a cadre of able spokesmen who will help to create a public perception of the university as an institution, something more than the lengthened shadow of one man.

By this scheme, pulling one signal to clear locks all the other switch and signal levers in safe positions until the first signal is again restored to normal.

By using the appropriate version any one of these factors can be determined for any combination of the other three.

By automobile from New York, for example, you can take a one or two-day tour to Annapolis, Maryland to see the colonial homes and the U.S. Naval Academy ( where you can shoot the dress parade on Wednesdays ) ; ;

By accepted definition, a 1-ton conditioner will provide 12,000 BTU of cooling in one hour.

By that, one feels that magnetic forces are as general as electrical forces.

By scrutinizing the flowers, one can also notice that the scale bears one or two tiny warts.

`` By one fell swoop the Court now finds that Congress indulged in needless legislation in the acts of 1910, 1913, 1925, 1934 and 1937.

By saying `` another emotional death '', she reveals that there has been a previous one, although she has not described it in words.

By this same combination of the will and the imagination, each one of us can learn to portray permanently the kind of character we would like to be.

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 the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.

By then, the stranger was thanking Haney profusely and had one arm around his shoulders as if he were an old friend.

By and large, Robert McEnroe's adaptation of Maurice Walsh's film, `` The Quiet Man '', provides the entertainment it set out to, and we have a lively musical show if not a superlative one.

By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time and respected as an important researcher into visual communication and sight-related theories as well.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

By preserving the value, only one division operation is needed and the higher-order statistics can thus be calculated for little incremental cost.

By the Rule of St Benedict, which, until the Cluniac reforms, was the norm in the West, the abbot has jurisdiction over only one community.

By having three stations, a total of three different cars can be operated on at the same time, each one at a different stage of its assembly.

By reducing detail in one direction more than another, these effects can be reduced.