By 1938, however, the oppression had become so extensive that it was damaging the infrastructure, economy and even the armed forces of the Soviet state, prompting Stalin to wind the purge down.

By April the public debate in Britain was becoming so damaging that the government decided that the best option was to back down as gracefully as it could.

By the next story, he blew up again, severely damaging his scars.

By trying to return to the track, he hit Alex Tagliani's car, damaging the whole front of it.

By re-running the test cases, the developer can be confident that code refactoring is not damaging any existing functionality.

By 3 p. m. CDT, it had become evident that a widespread severe weather event was imminent ; the Storm Prediction Center upgraded locations within the moderate risk area to a high risk of severe weather around 4 p. m. CDT as wind shear profiles, combined with volatile atmospheric conditions, had made conditions highly conducive for a significant tornadic event across most of Oklahoma, southern Kansas and north Texas, including the likelihood of damaging tornadoes.

By 6 June Allied fighter pilots had succeeded in damaging or destroying hundreds of locomotives, thousands of motorized vehicles, and many bridges.

By 1974, Matthews had become one of the toughest and most damaging players in the game.

By the time Task Force 58 retires, its aircraft have flown a total of 1, 250 combat sorties over the two days of strikes, dropping 400 tons ( 164, 600 kg ) of bombs and torpedoes against shipping and 94 tons ( 85, 276 kg ) of bombs against airfields and shore facilities, sinking two auxiliary cruisers, two destroyers, two submarine tenders, an aircraft ferry, and 23 merchant ships including six tankers and 17 cargo ships totalling 200, 000 gross register tons of shipping, and destroying or damaging 250 to 275 Japanese aircraft, in exchange for the loss of 17 American aircraft in combat and eight to other causes.

By the time the mistake was discovered six years later, the blanket had melted, severely damaging the boiler.

By revolving his speech around attacking Clodia, Cicero avoided setting himself against public opinion or damaging his relationship with Pompey.

By storing most of the deluge it spared towns downstream, including Lesterville and Centerville, from a damaging flood.

By this time the call for a boycott of Shell products was being heeded across much of continental northern Europe, damaging Shell's profitability as well as brand image.

By having other, more flexible policies to deal with aggressive Soviet actions, the U. S. could opt out of a nuclear strike and take less damaging actions to rectify the problem without losing face in the international community.

By allowing the wood panel to float, it can expand and contract without damaging the door.

By using ultrasonic testing, engineers were able to evaluate the state of the terra cotta without further damaging the pieces.

By manipulating the basic dimensional constants one can also construct the Planck time, Planck length and Planck energy which make a good system of units for expressing dimensional measurements, known as Planck units.

By eliminating ρ and J, using Maxwell's equations, and manipulating using the theorems of vector calculus, this form of the equation can be used to derive the Maxwell stress tensor σ, in turn this can be combined with the Poynting vector S to obtain the electromagnetic stress-energy tensor T used in general relativity.

By manipulating space in this way, Voidhawks can open wormholes and jump long distances ( many light years ) instantaneously.

By manipulating food's taste, sugar and fat content, and directing their advertising to children, the suit argued that the company purposely misleads the public about the nutritional value of its product.

By juxtaposing, usurping and manipulating images and ideas in surprising ways, a conceit invites the reader into a more sophisticated understanding of an object of comparison.

By 1997, search engines recognized that webmasters were making efforts to rank well in their search engines, and that some webmasters were even manipulating their rankings in search results by stuffing pages with excessive or irrelevant keywords.

By manipulating the appearance of images through what some called " ennobling processes ", such as gum or bromoil printing, pictorialists were able to create unique photographs that were sometimes mistaken for drawings or lithographs.

By manipulating the mass media, Phibulsonggram supported fascism and nationalism.

By manipulating the magnetic lenses of the microscope, the diffraction pattern may be observed by projecting it onto the screen instead of the image.

By manipulating the input power into the two ends of the fiber, there will be an increase of a " optical stretching " that can be used to measure viscoelastic properties of cells, with sensitivity sufficient to distinguish between different individual cytoskeletal phenotypes.

By 1977, however, the same allegations that had been made against Morosi in the political world were being made in the alternative lifestyle movement: specifically, that she was manipulating Cairns, and that her husband was manipulating both of them for financial gain.

By manipulating the VGA's control registers the programmer can decide how some or all of these 4 planes will be affected by each write or read operation.

By manipulating Westminster Council's public housing stock, the fraudsters were able to move voters more likely to vote for their electoral rivals from marginal wards to the wards that they were going to lose anyway.

By manipulating the culture ( values and mores ) of the society, the ruling class can intellectually dominate the other social classes with an imposed worldview that ideologically justifies the social, political, and economic status quo as natural and normal, inevitable and perpetual.

By manipulating this non-conductive layer, p – n junctions are commonly used as diodes: circuit elements that allow a flow of electricity in one direction but not in the other ( opposite ) direction.

By gathering clues and manipulating the environment, the player solves thematically linked puzzles.

By manipulating his blood to form words, he asks Zatanna to consign his soul to the ' abyss ', a realm Hell cannot affect.

By manipulating the brain in this way, Emergent managers induce obsession with a single idea or specialty, which they call Focus, essentially turning people into brilliant appliances.

By creating and manipulating crises, such as by suddenly raising interest rates, poorer nations can be forced into bankruptcy, and agreeing to such deals like that of the structural adjustment programs can yield more damages to those nations.

By interleaving independent instructions between the memory fetch instruction and the instructions manipulating the fetched operand, the time occupied by the memory fetch could be used for other computation.

By manipulating Oscar's traction device, the vengeful Mimi crippled Oscar, so that he became a paraplegic.

By manipulating the franchise, the government obtained progressively more conservative, but less representative, Dumas.

By manipulating the Mafia's rules and eliminating rivals, the Corleonesi came to completely dominate the Commission.

By focusing on a specific chakra ( while often holding the breath ) the subtle winds enter the central channel.

By November the Deputy General Minister and President, William Howland, suggested that the committee's staff consultant and chairperson agree on a specific proposal and bring it back to the committee: that meant Robert L. Friedly of the Office of Interpretation and Ronald E. Osborn.

By contrast, a dynamic web page is a broader concept, covering any web page generated differently for each user, load occurrence, or specific variable values.

By 1918 we can find a shot of the sky being used to reflect the mood of one of the characters without specific explanation in The Gun Woman ( Frank Borzage ), but it must be emphasized that these examples are very rare, and did not either then, or within the next several years, constitute regular practice in the American cinema.

By contrast, the " Verb of Similarity " ( فعل المضارع, fi ' l al-mudaara ' ah ), so called because of its resemblance to the active participial noun, is considered to denote an event in the present or future without committing to a specific aspectual sense beyond the incompleteness implied by the tense: يضرب " yadribu ", he strikes / is striking / will strike / etc.

By interacting with their specific receptors, IFNs activate signal transducer and activator of transcription ( STAT ) complexes ; STATs are a family of transcription factors that regulate the expression of certain immune system genes.

By default, the method with the most specific argument classes is chosen ; then in the order in which parent classes are named in the subclass definition.

By segregating an application into tiers, developers acquire the option of modifying or adding a specific layer, instead of reworking the entire application.

By changes in structure, specific proteins acquire the capability to enter the nucleus of the cell and bind to promoter DNA, or to other proteins that themselves are already bound to a given promoter.

By 1894, the year the Congress was held, he publicly criticised the type of amateur competition embodied in English rowing contests, arguing that its specific exclusion of working-class athletes was wrong.

By analogy the same term is used in politics and public affairs to refer to the informal process by which statements, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents, are deployed in the media.

By comparing the spectra of stars such as Sirius to the Sun, they found differences in the strength and number of their absorption lines — the dark lines in a stellar spectra due to the absorption of specific frequencies by the atmosphere.

By dividing Somalia's cities into specific quarters, the private sector has found a manageable method of providing cities with electricity.

By the thirteenth century, it signified a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure.

By following the drawing instructions, the computer creates an " outline " shape at a specific size, and then " fills " it with ink.

By the mid-20th century, some speakers applied the word to any American born north of the Mason – Dixon Line, though usually with a specific focus still on New England.

By replacing the liquid with gas it is possible to prepare aerogels, materials with exceptional properties including very low density, high specific surface areas, and excellent thermal insulation properties.

By mid-July, the Washington Post reported that Perot's campaign managers were becoming increasingly disillusioned by his unwillingness to follow their advice to be more specific on issues, and his need to be in full control of operations with such tactics as forcing volunteers to sign loyalty oaths.

By having a robot randomly access many sites enough times, with a message or specific address given as the referrer, that message or Internet address then appears in the referrer log of those sites that have referrer logs.

By default, it reports matching lines on standard output, but specific modes of operation may be chosen with command line options.

By the 12th century, Medieval Europeans had more specific conceptions of Islam and " Saracen " had become a racial and religious marker.

By targeting federal resources to specific geographic areas the Kennedy administration realized that political favors could be bought.

By limiting the dialogue and discourse between specific candidates and political parties, the media can psychologically limit choices in the public mind and thus assure that only politicians acceptable to the ruling class and corporate structure are elected to public office.

By its standard practices of applying good scientific methods, mainstream is distinguished from pseudoscience as a demarcation problem and specific types of inquiry are debunked as junk science, cargo cult science and scientific misconduct etc.

By the mid-18th century, classifications become specific enough that it is easier to identify references to Hmong and Mong people.