By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

By reductio ad absurdum, Bastiat argued that the national trade deficit was an indicator of a successful economy, rather than a failing one.

By the mid-1950s, Bogart's health was failing.

By then his health was failing.

By failing to employ sprezzatura, he destroys his opportunity for grace.

By this time Tate had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and her health and strength were failing ; her meeting with Bush marked her final public appearance.

By now Pope's health, which had never been good, was failing, and he died in his villa surrounded by friends on 30 May 1744.

By 1929 Lysenko's skeptics were politically censured, accused of offering only criticisms, and for failing to prescribe any new solutions themselves.

By 1993, when Burr signed with NBC for another season of Mason films, he was using a wheelchair full-time because of his failing health.

By this time her health was failing, and after disagreements with Cohen she walked off the set.

By this time, however, his physical and mental health was already failing.

By 1934 the White Star Line was failing and the British Government was concerned about potential job losses.

By usually failing to discriminate sufficiently between main arteries and residential streets, the first were not made wide enough while the second were usually too wide for purely neighborhood functions.

By the 1880s, there was dissatisfaction among the users that the rates for traffic were higher than on the railways, and the canals were failing to modernise, as steam boats were banned, despite them having been in use for 50 years on the neighbouring Aire and Calder Navigation.

By the end of the day, after several mutual pauses for rest, the Vikings found themselves with both flanks failing, Sigurd dead, and everyone exhausted.

By 1979, there was an increasing dissatisfaction with the aging President Kekkonen, whose failing health was becoming difficult to conceal, and the lack of change.

By the early 1930s, a number of stars began failing at the box office, partly due to the Great Depression that was now undermining the economy along with the public's ability to spend on entertainment.

By this time his memory was failing, and he often had to ask his wife for details that escaped him.

By the spring of 1522, Norfolk was almost 80 years of age and in failing health.

By 1966, though his itinerary remained unreduced, Vanier's strength was failing.

By initiation or threat of a student strike, the students could enforce their demands as to the content of courses and the pay professors would receive, for otherwise they would be paid nothing with the students failing to attend.

By this time, Perkins ' health was failing and he did not live to see its success, nor that of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea ( 1952 ), which was dedicated to his memory.

After failing to draw in much of an audience as a comedy, the film was marketed as a drama and re-released a few months later under the title By the Book, again without much box office success.

By failing to prioritize their construction, he allowed Louisiana and Mississippi to compete for scarce resources.

By 1920, over 10, 000 arrests were made, and the aliens caught up in these raids were deported back to Europe, most notably the anarchist Emma Goldman, who years before had attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick.

By December 1838, Zulu prince Mpande and 17, 000 followers had already fled from Dingane, who was seeking to assassinate Mpande.

By this time, both Henry and Bobby know that there is an FBI agent undercover in their drug operations and despite Nick's idea to ' leak ' the operation and have him pulled, decide to simply assassinate him.

By this point in the war the Naashanites are desperate and attempt to use a demon to assassinate Gorben, but he is saved by Druss thanks to Snaga-the only weapon that seems to hurt the demon.

By contrast, neighboring Chinese leader Mao Zedong was mostly ignored and Kim Il-sung rejected most of his policies such as the Hundred Flowers Campaign and ( later ) the Cultural Revolution.

By 1962, while Zhou, Liu and Deng managed affairs of state and the economy, Mao had effectively withdrawn from economic decision-making, and focused much of his time on further contemplating his contributions to Marxist-Leninist social theory, including the idea of " continuous revolution ".

By early June, throngs of young demonstrators lined the capital's major thoroughfares holding giant portraits of Mao, beating drums, and shouting slogans against his perceived enemies.

By late 1975 however, Mao saw that Deng's economic restructuring might negate the legacy of the Cultural Revolution, and launched a campaign to oppose " rehabilitating the case for the rightists ", alluding to Deng as the country's foremost " rightist ".

By then, the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under Mao Zedong had signed a ceasefire to create the Second United Front and fight the Japanese invasion of China, which began in July.

By the mid 1970s, Jiang Qing also spearheaded the campaign against Deng Xiaoping ( afterwards saying that this was inspired by Mao ).

By 1973, although was not reported due to it being a personal matter, Mao and his wife Jiang had separated:

By 1956, Mao was becoming bored with the day-to-day running of the state and also worried about growing red tape and bureaucracy.

By 1962 Liu's opposition to Mao's policies had led Mao to distrust Liu.

By the spring of 1957, Mao had announced that criticism was " preferred " and had begun to mount pressure on those who did not turn in healthy criticism on policy to the Central Government.

By early July 1957, the campaign had become too difficult to control, and Mao viewed many of the received letters as absurd.

By that time Mao had witnessed Nikita Khrushchev denouncing Joseph Stalin and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, events by which he felt threatened.

By conforming to Soviet policy, Mao also appeased Stalin and avoided his further interference.

By the late 1950s Mao had developed a lifestyle that was out of touch with Peng's preference for modesty and simplicity.

Jiang wore it only on special occasions, such as to state dinners, but this practice was almost totally discontinued by his successor Hu Jintao .. Hu Jintao still wears the Mao suit, however, on special occasions, such as military parades .. By the early part of the 21st century, the Mao suit is rarely worn even on formal occasions.

By the time they reached Yan ' an, it was obvious that Mao was the winner.

By using about 80, 000 paid Chinese villains known as Chiang Mao Tao, he funded hundreds of criminal groups, using them for every kind of social disturbance, turnover, assassinations and sabotage inside unoccupied China.

By contrast, in northern China, as controlled by Mao Zedong's communists, an altogether different type of literature was developing, dedicated to exalting the communist movement.

By July, when Mao joked that with a group of Red Guard leaders that he himself was the “ black hand ” suppressing campus revolutionaries, the glory days of the movement were ending.

By 1944, Snow was wavering on the question of whether Mao and the Chinese Communists were actually " agrarian democrats " and not dedicated Communists bent on totalitarian rule, a view encouraged by Mao and his party leadership.

By 405, he was a mid-level military commander under the command of Mao Qu ( 毛璩 ), the Jin governor of Yi Province ( 益州, modern Sichuan and Chongqing ).

By the early 1930s, even that was unsafe and leaders began to converge at Mao Zedong's Jiangxi Soviet.