By 926 Sihtric had evidently acknowledged Æthelstan as over-king, adopting Christianity and marrying a sister of Æthelstan at Tamworth.

By marrying Vespasia Polla he allied himself to the more prestigious patrician gens Vespasia, ensuring the elevation of his sons Titus Flavius Sabinus II and Vespasian to senatorial rank.

By marrying Richard III's niece, Elizabeth of York, Henry VII successfully bolstered his own disputed claim to the throne, whilst moving to end the Wars of the Roses by presenting England with a new dynasty, of both Lancastrian and Yorkist descent.

By marrying his son Philip the Handsome to the future Queen Joanna of Castile in 1498, Maximilian established the Habsburg dynasty in Spain and allowed his grandson Charles to hold the throne of both León-Castile and Aragon, thus making him the first de jure King of Spain.

By marrying Vespasia Polla he allied himself to the more prestigious patrician gens Vespasia, ensuring the elevation of his sons Titus Flavius Sabinus II and Vespasian to the senatorial rank.

By marrying Aspasia without obtaining the permission of the Archbishop, Alexander disobeyed the law and his attitude caused a major scandal in Greece.

By marrying her now, he would be removed from the line of succession early, and preclude the prospect of losing Natalia.

By 1840 he writes that seamen were marrying early with 86 marriages and 60 births in the parish in the space of one year.

By proceeding more quickly, Berengaria prevented the daughters of her former husband from marrying a man who could claim the throne of León.

By that time, less wealthy daughters were often marrying without any dowry.

By 1378, he owned the manor of Bodiam by virtue of marrying into a land-owning family.

By marrying Sibylla to his vassal, Philip could control the kingship of Jerusalem.

By this — so this narrative alleges — Agnes hoped to foil any attempt by Raymond III of Tripoli ( the former regent ) from marrying her daughter into the rival court faction, led by the Ibelins.

By marrying Jacob and bearing his sons, who would be raised in the tzadik's home and continue his mission into the next generation ( indeed, all 12 sons became tzadikim in their own right and formed the foundation of the Nation of Israel ), they would develop an even closer relationship to God.

By the late 1940s, Marjorie slowly matures to a young woman of marrying age.

By marrying short passing to intelligent positional play, they made the ball do all the work, and so kept their opponents on the run wrote Joy.

By marrying two daughters to Frankish kings, he may have intended to involve the Merovingians in the Visigothic succession.

By marrying a Roman Catholic, Alexander lost his place in line of succession to the British throne, which he had held as a descendant of Queen Victoria through her second son Alfred.

By marrying Vespasia Polla he allied himself to the more prestigious patrician gens Vespasia, ensuring the elevation of his sons Titus Flavius Sabinus II and Vespasian to the senatorial rank.

By now, he has added to his fortunes by marrying Héloise Plïsson, a rich socialite who has suspicions about how he makes his money, but prefers not to know.

By marrying Safiyyah, Muhammad aimed at ending the enmity and hostility between Jews and Islam.

By marrying Frederick, she became Electress of Brandenburg in 1688, and after the elevation of Brandenburg-Prussia to a kingdom in 1701, she became the first Queen in Prussia.

By then Lloyd Cotsen, had entered the Stolaroff family by marrying his daughter Joanne Stolaroff.

By the end of 1819 Calvos had a love affair with a student, Susan Fortune Rideout, but her parents did not approve, and it was considered too soon after his wife's death for them to think of marrying.

By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.

By the time Lilian had been graduated from public school, her parents were doing quite well.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.

By odd coincidence, on the evening of her return Shelley chose to read Parisina, which was the latest of the titled poet's successes.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

By this time Diane was a beguiling lass of 19 and still seeking her place in the world.

By rough estimate her Committee, headed by Henry Francis Du Pont, contains three times as many Republicans as Democrats.

By the time her hindquarters were in a standin' position, her knees were on the ground in a prayin' attitude.

By turns, her beautifully sung Norma is fierce, tender, venomous and pitiful.

By relaxing the throat muscles and expanding the oral cavity well into the frontal sinuses, she could direct the vowel sounds into the most felicitous position for proper reproduction through her throat microphone.

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

By the terms of the Thirty Years ' Peace ( 445 BC ) Athens covenanted to restore to Aegina her autonomy, but the clause remained a dead letter.

By bringing part of mass of her body closer to the axis she decreases her body's moment of inertia.

By figuratively rolling her eyes at the hype, Peters gives us a rich, warm and comedically human Desiree, which reaches full impact when she pierces the facade with a nakedly honest, tears-on-cheek ' Send in the Clowns.

Professor Henry Higgins sings, " Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters / Condemned by every syllable she utters / By right she should be taken out and hung / For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.

By offering to isolate her in Senex's house, he is able to give Philia and Hero some time alone together, and the two fall in love.