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 upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

By his own confession, Maris is an angry young man.

By 335 BC he had returned to Athens, establishing his own school there known as the Lyceum.

By age three, however, her mother changed her name to Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, after her own mother.

By their assistance and that of his own subjects, who entertained a great attachment for him, he recovered Epirus.

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.

" By his own appraisal, he was a non-conforming misfit in the fraternity environment.

By the end of Judges the Israelites are in a worse condition than they were at the beginning, with Yahweh's treasures used to make idolatrous images, the Levites ( priests ) corrupted, the tribe of Dan conquering a remote village instead of the Canaanite cities, and the tribes of Israel making war on the Benjamites, their own brothers.

By imposing, retrospectively, his own perceptions of mobile warfare upon the shallow concept of blitzkrieg, he " created a theoretical imbroglio that has taken 40 years to unravel.

By 1743, he had perfected his hybrid style of playwriting ( combining the model of Molière with the strengths of Commedia dell ' arte and his own wit and sincerity ).

By his own account, he spent a great deal of time in the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital's library, where he would have encountered the work of Freud and other psychoanalysts.

By his own admission, Hubbard made what he considered was one of the greatest mistakes of his life when he used the biological definition of engram as a " trace on a cell ", which was not in line with the proper biological definition.

By the end of the year Mobutu had created a rival government with its own prime minister.

By this time the destroyers had become large, multi-purpose vessels, expensive targets in their own right.

By the next Broadway season, he was the star of his own show about a young man who is drafted called Let's Face It !.

By mid-1892 Satie had composed the first pieces in a compositional system of his own making (), had provided incidental music to a chivalric esoteric play ( two ), had had his first hoax published ( announcing the premiere of, an anti-Wagnerian opera he probably never composed ), and had broken with Péladan, starting that autumn with the Uspud project, a " Christian Ballet ", in collaboration with.

By the time the siege ended in May 1094, El Cid had carved out his own principality on the coast of the Mediterranean.

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 2000, almost no major vendor produced its own EDIF tools, choosing instead to OEM third-party tools.

By the early 1970s, the picture changed: software costs were dramatically increasing, a growing software industry was competing with the hardware manufacturer's bundled software products ( free in that the cost was included in the hardware cost ), leased machines required software support while providing no revenue for software, and some customers able to better meet their own needs did not want the costs of " free " software bundled with hardware product costs.

By 410, Britain was effectively told to look after its own affairs and expect no aid from Rome.

By October 1935 his flat-mates had moved out and he was struggling to pay the rent on his own.

By the time he opened his own furniture workshop in 1917, Rietveld had taught himself drawing, painting and model-making.

By 1902, the factory alone became " A great city with its own streets, its own police force, fire department and traffic laws.