By prevailing over other claimants for the loyalties of men, the nation-state maintained an adequate measure of certainty and order within its territorial borders.

By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.

By June 19, 1788, he had presented himself to its Commander in Chief, the Governor of the Southern Provinces, the Director of the War College -- The Prince.

By limiting American strength too much to nuclear strength, this country limited its ability to fight any kind of war besides a nuclear war.

By reducing rates as much as 60 per cent, it and its associated railroads hope to win back some of the business they have lost to truckers and barge lines.

By 1883 the `` Battenkill Telegraph Company '' was in existence and Alvin Pettibone was its president.

) By its greater corporeal presence and its greater extraneousness, the affixed paper or cloth serves for a seeming moment to push everything else into a more vivid idea of depth than the simulated printing or simulated textures had ever done.

By its nature it has always been of great psychological advantage and small efforts have required considerably greater counter-efforts.

By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labour.

By the time we arrived and entered the building sacred music was already swelling out into the chapel-like auditorium with its discreet symbols of religious faiths.

By night, an aardwolf can consume up to 200, 000 harvester termites using its sticky, long tongue.

By knowing the coordinates of an object ( usually given in equatorial coordinates ), the telescope user can use the setting circle to align the telescope in the appropriate direction before looking through its eyepiece.

By its inclusion the order has grown enormously in number of species.

By its geological origin, islands forming archipelagos can be referred to as oceanic islands, continental fragments and continental islands.

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.

Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — By what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

By its terms the boundary between Alfred ’ s and Guthrum ’ s kingdoms was to run up the River Thames, to the River Lea ; follow the Lea to its source ( near Luton ); from there extend in a straight line to Bedford ; and from Bedford follow the River Ouse to Watling Street.

By terms of the treaty, moreover, Alfred was to have control over the Mercian city of London and its mints — at least for the time being.

By now, the war is nearing its end and the German Army is retreating.

By stripping it of its powers over temples, Augustus effectively destroyed the office, by taking from it its original function.

By 1987, however, the USSR withdrew its opposition, concluding the SDI posed no threat.

By definition a multilinear map is alternating if it vanishes whenever two of its arguments are equal.

By the very nature of the situation, it is the union which has been able to select the time and place to bring pressure upon management.

By contrast, a good deal of nuclear pacifism begins with the contingencies and the probabilities, and not with the moral nature of the action to be done ; ;

* By focusing on symbolic patterns, images, and poetic mantras, the meditant can achieve consciously directed Imaginations that allow sensory phenomena to appear as the expression of underlying beings of a soul-spiritual nature.

Confucius never stated whether man was born good or evil, noting that ' By nature men are similar ; by practice men are wide apart ' — implying that whether good or bad, Confucius must have perceived all men to be born with intrinsic similarities, but that man is conditioned and influenced by study and practise.

Rabbi Milton Steinberg wrote that " By its nature Judaism is averse to formal creeds which of necessity limit and restrain thought " and asserted in his book Basic Judaism ( 1947 ) that " Judaism has never arrived at a creed.

By nature of their general training they can carry out the majority of dental treatments such as restorative ( fillings, crowns, bridges ), prosthetic ( dentures ), endodontic ( root canal ) therapy, periodontal ( gum ) therapy, and exodontia ( extraction of teeth ), as well as performing examinations, radiographs ( x-rays ) and diagnosis.

By the nature of their chromophore, dyes are divided into:

By the nature of contemporary computers most of the database part inside a computer that hosts the DBMS resides ( partially replicated ) in volatile storage.

By the nature of contemporary computers most of the database part inside a computer that hosts the DBMS resides ( partially replicated ) in volatile storage.

Despite the revivalists ' various political views and different opinions regarding the nature of authentic folk music, they all shared an understanding of Americanism that grounded the nation's identity in cultural pluralism and political democracy " By the end of the 1930s they along with the musicians and others had turned American folk music into a social movement.

" His predisposition for benevolence is clear in the statement " We whites ... must necessarily appear to them in the nature of supernatural beings .... By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded ".

By the time of Cicero he had become " the dark " ( Ancient Greek — ) because he had spoken nimis obscurē, " too obscurely ", concerning nature and had done so deliberately in order to be misunderstood.

By showing how simple unintelligent forces can ratchet up designs of extraordinary complexity without invoking outside design, Darwin showed that an intelligent designer was not the necessary conclusion to draw from complexity in nature.

By nature of surface there can be distinguished:

By their nature, such reports only include those referred for diagnosis and treatment.

By its nature, UDP is not reliable — messages may be lost or delivered out of order.

By definition, the accused is sufficiently aware of the nature of the activity to commit the actus reus of driving and presumably knows that driving while drunk is legally wrong.

By comparing the different natural languages, scholars hope to learn something about the nature of human intelligence and the innate biases and constraints that shape natural language, which are sometimes called universal grammar.

By defining a thing solely in terms of its external relationships or effects we only find its external, or explicit nature.

By 1800, most Congregationalist churches in Boston had Unitarian preachers teaching the strict unity of God, the subordinate nature of Christ, and salvation by character.

By and large, the true nature of the performance is not discussed by the performing company in order to sustain and promote the willing suspension of disbelief for the audience by maintaining an aura of verisimilitude.

By 1930, quantum mechanics had been further unified and formalized by the work of Paul Dirac and John von Neumann, with a greater emphasis placed on measurement in quantum mechanics, the statistical nature of our knowledge of reality, and philosophical speculation about the role of the observer.

By nature, humans engage in identification, either to identify themselves or another individual with a group.