By now Harmony could see that most of the adults in the train were winded and resting, or else siphoned off from the games by the challenging lure of the great cliff towering above them.

By the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

By all means the most important distinction is that between those total-cost apportionments which superimpose a distribution of admittedly unallocable cost residues on estimates of incremental or marginal costs, and those other apportionments which recognize no difference between true cost allocation and mere total-cost distribution.

By fall, 443 survivors of this arduous journey were clustered about Fort Snelling, but most of them were sent on to Galena and St. Louis, with a few going as far as Vevay, Indiana, a notable Swiss center in the United States.

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 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

By the end of the 14th century, most of Anatolia was controlled by various Anatolian beyliks.

By some estimates, this might account for most of the internal radiation damage, as the recoil nuclei are typically heavy metals which preferentially collect on the chromosomes.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

By a probably euphonic inversion the translator of Irenaeus and the other Latin authors have Abraxas, which is found in the magical papyri, and even, though most sparingly, on engraved stones.

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 early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

By the time Alexios ascended the throne, the Seljuqs had taken most of Asia Minor.

By seeking close alliances with powerful noble families, Alexios put an end to the tradition of imperial exclusivity and coopted most of the nobility into his extended family and, through it, his government.

By 1094, Yusuf had annexed most major taifas, with the exception of the one at Zaragoza.

By the mid-16th century, they were in common use in most of Europe.

By the 1890s, the company was the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world.

By a public decree, this fine work was placed in one of the stanze of the Vatican hitherto reserved for the most precious works of antiquity.

By contrast, while defendants in most civil law systems can be compelled to give a statement, this statement is not subject to cross-examination by the prosecutor and not given under oath.

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

By the time Marlborough had closed down the Ramillies campaign he had denied the French most of the Spanish Netherlands west of the Meuse and north of the Sambre – it was an unsurpassed operational triumph for the English Duke.

By the mid 1960s, binary addressing had become the standard architecture in most computer designs, and main memory sizes were most commonly powers of two.

By making these data available to local public health officials in real time, most models of anthrax epidemics indicate that more than 80 % of an exposed population can receive antibiotic treatment before becoming symptomatic, and thus avoid the moderately high mortality of the disease.

By inserting the energetic definitions of the ionization potential and electron affinity into the Mulliken electronegativity, it is possible to show that the Mulliken chemical potential is a finite difference approximation of the electronic energy with respect to the number of electrons., i. e.,

By the end of the 18th century, three definitions of the gallon were in common use:

By Euler's criterion, which had been discovered earlier and was known to Legendre, these two definitions are equivalent.

By these definitions, mountains cover 64 % of Asia, 25 % of Europe, 22 % of South America, 17 % of Australia, and 3 % of Africa.

By most definitions, characters do not strictly require actual superhuman powers to be deemed superheroes, although terms such as costumed crime fighters are sometimes used to refer to those such as Batman and Green Arrow without such powers who share other common superhero traits.

By some definitions, the first supervillain was John Devil, a proto-Fantômas, created by Paul Féval, père in his eponymous 1860 novel, or Féval's nearly-immortal, machiavellian Colonel Bozzo-Corona, leader of Les Habits Noirs introduced in 1863.

By virtue of these interpretive connections, the network can function as a scientific theory: From certain observational data, we may ascend, via an interpretive string, to some point in the theoretical network, thence proceed, via definitions and hypotheses, to other points, from which another interpretive string permits a descent to the plane of observation.

By inserting the energetic definitions of the ionization potential and electron affinity into the Mulliken electronegativity, it is possible to show that the Mulliken chemical potential is a finite difference approximation of the electronic energy with respect to the number of electrons., i. e.,

By the definitions, an abelian variety is a group variety.

By some definitions of " society " and " homogenous ", virtually all contemporary national societies are multiethnic.

By a similar token, there are now definitions for " Combined Statistical Areas " ( CSA ).

By present-day definitions some of these villagers would be defined as Syrians, some as Lebanese and some as Palestinians.

By the above definitions, there are no parallel geodesics to a given geodesic, all geodesics intersect.

By some definitions, the average size length of a sentence is given by " no.

By some definitions, a macro photograph is one in which the size of the subject on the negative or image sensor is life size or greater.

By the most strict definitions, no megastructures currently exist ( with the space elevator being the only such project under serious consideration ).

By more lenient definitions, the Great Wall of China ( 6. 7 Mm ) counts as a megastructure.

By most definitions, this is the first working gas turbine.

By some academic definitions, a traditional story about a historical human character like Muhammad would be a " legend ", not a " myth ".< ref > For some examples of this distinction between " legend " and " myth ", see < http :// falcon. jmu. edu /~ ramseyil / tradmays. htm > and ( for the classic distinction drawn by professional folklorists ) < http :// encarta. msn. com / text_761556135__1 / Folktales. html >.</ ref >

By most definitions, budget sets must be compact and convex.

By some definitions it contains the largest archipelago ( island group ) in the world by the number of islands, although many of the islands are very small and tightly clustered.

By some definitions WDM-PON is a dedicated wavelength for each ONU.

By incorporating the correct definitions for saturated thickness, specific storage, and specific yield, we can transform this into two unique governing equations for confined and unconfined conditions:

By some definitions, in Morningside was a former Edinburgh home of the author J. K. Rowling, writer of the Harry Potter series of books ; however by some definitions her house on Abbotsford Crescent was within the Merchiston area.