By secretly giving inside information to the Komnenoi, Maria was an invaluable ally.

By one estimate, it has the fourth highest gross national income at purchasing power parity in Africa, giving it a standard of living around that of Mexico and Turkey.

By giving it the title ' knowledge ', conspiracy theory is considered alongside more ' legitimate ' modes of knowing.

By giving each channel a different frequency " slot " on the cable the separate television signals do not interfere.

By the end of the " Kino-Pravda " series, Vertov made liberal use of stop motion, freeze frames, and other cinematic " artificialities ," giving rise to criticisms not just of his trenchant dogmatism, but also of his cinematic technique.

By defeating Russia in 1917 Germany was able to bring hundreds of thousands of combat troops from the east to the Western Front, giving it a numerical advantage over the Allies.

By 1343, last of these dynasties had ceased to exist, giving rise to the Vijayanagar empire.

By 500 BC, Melanesian seafarers had reached Fiji and intermarried with the Polynesian inhabitants, giving rise to the modern Fijian people.

By analogy with the phoneme, linguists have proposed other sorts of underlying objects, giving them names with the suffix-eme, such as morpheme and grapheme.

By September, Porsche owned a 35. 14 % plurality stake in Volkswagen AG, effectively giving it control over the company.

By paying attention to the army, giving much freedom to Finland, and freeing the serfs in 1861, he gained much popular support ( Finns still dearly remember him ).

By the late 1810s, under siege from the Quadrille, dancing masters began to invent " new " forms of country dance, often with figures borrowed from the Quadrille, and giving them exotic names such as the Danse Ecossoise and Danse Espagnuole which suggested entire new dances but actually covered very minor variations in the classic form.

By the mid-16th century, the " v " form was used to represent the consonant and " u " the vowel sound, giving us the modern letter " u ".

By demanding that high-frequency light must be emitted by an oscillator of equal frequency, and further requiring that this oscillator occupy higher energy than one of a lesser frequency, Planck avoided any catastrophe ; giving an equal partition to high-frequency oscillators produced successively fewer oscillators and less emitted light.

By 1997, 81 % of the developing world's wheat area was planted to semi-dwarf wheats, giving both increased yields and better response to nitrogenous fertilizer.

By the end of the king's long reign, rich Baroque designs were giving way to lighter elements with more curves and natural patterns.

By a misadventure, all of the Republican electors cast their votes for both Jefferson and Burr, giving them each 73 votes.

By taking the derivative of the optical path length, the stationary point is found giving the path taken by the light ( though it should be noted that the result does not show light taking the least time path, but rather one that is stationary with respect to small variations as there are cases where light actually takes the greatest time path, as in a spherical mirror ).

By giving the lender the cloak as well the debtor was reduced to nakedness.

By testing the samples from the spring water, the team was at least able to identify the substance's current presence at the site, giving them insight that a presumably larger quantity existed in the waters thousands of years earlier.

By giving the President the authority to negotiate these deals, the Congress effectively ceded a part of their power ( authorized under US Constitution, Article I, Section VIII ) to the executive branch.

By giving common people the power not only to elect officials but also to call them to account, Solon appears to have established the foundations of a true democracy.

By World War II, every twelfth resident of the city was a student, giving rise to the city's informal name-Siberian Athens.

By virtue of finishing last the year before, the Isles were also able to claim goaltender Chris Osgood with the first pick in the waiver draft, adding a former championship goaltender without giving up any players in exchange.

) By the time the streetcar pulled away, he had fallen in love with Paula.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

By the time mission control issued the wake-up call to the crew for flight day two, the spacecraft was approximately away from the Earth, traveling at about.

By this time most had expected him to have wasted away, or to have gone insane in his solitary confinement.

By 1867, it ballooned to over 400 members, including some clubs from as far away as San Francisco and Louisiana.

By extension, the term is also used to refer to any system administrator who displays ( or wishes he could get away with ) the qualities of the original.

By blending bits of toad with a nausea-inducing chemical, the baits train the animals to stay away from the amphibians.

By the early 20th century, infantry weapons had become more powerful, forcing most artillery away from the front lines.

By three years, infants will move further away from their mothers.

By exposing an azeotrope to a vacuum or positive pressure, it's possible to bias the boiling point of one component away from the other by exploiting the differing vapour pressure curves of each ; the curves may overlap at the azeotropic point, but are unlikely to be remain identical further along the pressure axis either side of the azeotropic point.

By contrast, Ahmad Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ), which split away from Habash's organization in 1968, wanted to focus more on the tactical implementation of armed struggle.

Sudanese surgeon Nahid Toubia — president of RAINBO ( Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women ) — told the BBC in 2002 that campaigning against FGM involved trying to change women's consciousness: " By allowing your genitals to be removed is perceived that you are heightened to another level of pure motherhood — a motherhood not tainted by sexuality and that is why the woman gives it away to become the matron, respected by everyone.

By employing students Telemann took away a major resource for Kuhnau's choir ( and church music in Leipzig in general ); Kuhnau was also concerned that students were too frequently performing in operas, leaving them with less time to devote to church music.

By 1651 he had gathered other talented preachers around him and continued to roam the country despite a harsh reception from some listeners, who would whip and beat them to drive them away.

By the treaty, the Choctaw signed away their remaining traditional homelands, opening them up for European-American settlement in Mississippi Territory.

By the time he had reached 12, he had made many attempts to run away from home.

By 1960, having been influenced more by jazz music than blues, Brown began incorporating jazz styled arrangements in his music, with Brown naming the Famous Flames hits " I'll Go Crazy " and " Think " as examples of his changing style away from more traditional forms of R & B and rock ' n ' roll.

As for the contradiction between German rearmament and his message of peace, Ribbentrop argued to whoever would listen that the German people had been “ humiliated ” by the Versailles treaty, that Germany wanted peace above all, and German violations of Versailles were part of an effort to restore Germany's " self-respect " By the 1930s, much of British opinion had been convinced that the treaty was monstrously unfair and unjust to Germany, so as a result, many in Britain like Thomas Jones were very open to Ribbentrop ’ s message that if only Versailles could be done away with, then European peace would be secured.

By combining increases and decreases, it is possible to make the direction of a wale slant away from vertical, even in weft knitting.

By the Middle Preclassic Period ( 900-300 BC ), Olmec artistic styles had been adopted as far away as the Valley of Mexico and Costa Rica.

By 2007 the now-Russian force, now designated the Operational Group of Russian Forces in Moldova, under the command of the Moscow Military District had withered away to a strength of some 1500 which included the 8th Motor Rifle Brigade and a surface-to-air missile regiment.

By analyzing the type of granite, geologists were able to discover that glaciers carried Bubble Rock to its present location from the town of Lucerne, Maine — away.

By metaphoric extension, the term " movable feast " was used by Ernest Hemingway to mean the memory of a splendid place that continues to go with the moving traveler for the rest of life, after he has had the experience of it and gone away.

By the end of chapter 25, both the people of King Limhi, and the people of Alma have been guided by the Lord away from the Lamanites and to the land of Zarahemla.