By now Curt was seeing clearly again.

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 now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.

By now he had become Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the Order of Merit.

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 one fell swoop the Court now finds that Congress indulged in needless legislation in the acts of 1910, 1913, 1925, 1934 and 1937.

By these measures, Congress, so the Court ( in effect ) now decides, gave not only needless but inadequate relief, since it now appears that the federal courts have inherent power to sterilize the Act of 1875 against all proceedings challenging local regulation ''.

By July 1, six weeks from now, motel-keepers all over the nation will, by 6 p.m., be switching on that bleak -- to motorists -- sign, `` No Vacancy ''.

By now few Angolans retain African traditional religions following different ethnic faiths.

By 454, the Delian League could be fairly characterized as an Athenian Empire ; at the start of the Peloponnesian War, only Chios and Lesbos were left to contribute ships, and these states were by now far too weak to secede without support.

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

By 1722, his son Mahmud captured what is now Iran and declared himself as Shah of Persia.

It continues to the present day in much the same format, but is now entitled " Beachcomber ", not " By the Way ".

By now Blenheim was under assault from every side by three English generals: Cutts, Churchill, and Orkney.

By now, England were coached by Alf Ramsey who had managed to gain sole control of the recruitment and team selection procedure from the committee-based call-up system which had lasted up to the previous World Cup.

By now the rebel forces were said to have numbered 230, 000, however, this number should be treated with scepticism — Dio's account is known only from a late epitome, and ancient sources commonly exaggerate enemy numbers.

By the 18th century, the area from Sambas to Berau were tributaries to the Banjar Kingdom, but this eventually shrunk to the size of what is now South Kalimantan as a result of agreements with the Dutch.

By now she was pretty well used to these funny ways of his.

Boroughs proliferated in the suburban areas of the larger cities: By the 1980s there were 19 boroughs and three cities in the area that is now the City of Auckland.

By now, Deutsche Grammophon, Berliner's company and the publisher of the Strauss recording, had become a part of PolyGram.

By now Elsie and Frances were tired of the whole fairy business.

By this time large Chinese infantry-based armies of 100, 000 to 200, 000 troops were now buttressed with several hundred thousand mounted cavalry in support or as an effective striking force.

By the end of the story, there is little physical difference between the body of the hero, now called Andrew, and humans equipped with advanced prosthetics, save for the presence of Andrew's artificial positronic brain.

By 1407 this strategy was beginning to bear fruit, even though by this point Owain's rebel soldiers had concluded successful battles with the King ’ s men as far as Birmingham, where the English were in retreat.

By 1401 the whole of northern and central Wales had rallied to Owain's cause, and by 1403 villages throughout the country were rising in support.

By painting the Roman-Christian relations in this light, Luke hopes to persuade Rome that Christians are not enemies of the government and should not be looked upon with suspicion or even fear.

By 1939 the Luftwaffe was not much better prepared than its enemies to conduct a strategic bombing campaign, with fatal results during the Battle of Britain.

By about the 4th century AD the writer of satires came to be known as satyricus ; St. Jerome, for example, was called by one of his enemies ' a satirist in prose ' (' satyricus scriptor in prosa ').

By reducing the populations of natural enemies of rice pests, misuse of insecticides can actually lead to pest outbreaks.

By early June, throngs of young demonstrators lined the capital's major thoroughfares holding giant portraits of Mao, beating drums, and shouting slogans against his perceived enemies.

By this time, however, Napoleon had already all but abandoned plans to invade Britain, and had again turned his attention to enemies on the Continent.

By the autumn of 1559 several foreign princes were vying for the Queen's hand ; their impatient envoys came under the impression that Elizabeth was fooling them, " keeping Lord Robert's enemies and the country engaged with words until this wicked deed of killing his wife is consummated.

By shrewd tactics Timoleon defeats his enemies and occupies Syracuse.

By her firm administration she controlled the unruly nobles and checked numerous abuses ; but she damaged her reputation by excessive severity toward private enemies and the undue employment of menials for advisers, including her influential minister Leo Paraspondylos.

By 1336, they were enemies, although not yet openly at war.

By swallowing enemies he grabs with his tongue, Yoshi can produce up to six eggs which he can aim and throw at enemies or obstacles such as small clouds that can spout forth items or trigger events within the level.

By the time of the presidential election of 2009, Yushchenko and Tymoshenko — allies during the Orange Revolution — had become bitter enemies.

By contrast, unionists see him as an Ulsterman defending the province from enemies to the south: in Belfast, for example, he is depicted in a mural on Highfield Drive, and was formerly depicted in a mural on the Newtownards Road, as a " defender of Ulster from Irish attacks ", both murals ironically based on the Sheppard sculpture.

By 1935, Long's most recent consolidation of personal power led to talk of armed opposition from his enemies.

By some of Hogarth ’ s adherents the book was praised as a fine deliverance upon aesthetics ; by his enemies and rivals, its obscurities and minor errors were made the subject of endless ridicule and caricature.

By the time of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, the Byzantine Empire was largely confined to Balkan Europe and the northwestern fringe of Anatolia, and faced Norman enemies in the west as well as Turks in the east.

By shooting at US government troops, the Regulators gained a new set of enemies.

By shooting at government troops, the Regulators gained a new set of enemies.

By defeating enemies ( hostile monsters, but not other player characters ), the characters accrue experience points.

By dehumanizing their enemies in art, the Crusaders ' mission to capture the holy land and convert or kill the Muslims was glorified and sanctified.

By jumping on them, they fall down beating any enemies below it.

By gaining a level, a character's abilities or stats will increase, making the character stronger and able to accomplish more difficult tasks, including safely battling stronger enemies, gaining access to more powerful abilities ( such as spells or combat techniques ), and to make, fix or disable more complex mechanical devices, or resolve increasingly difficult social challenges.

By the end of the 1st century, Jewish tradition had long since changed Ezekiel's Gog from Magog into Gog and Magog, the ultimate enemies of God's people, to be destroyed in the final battle.

By acquiring certain items or reaching checkpoints, characters can level up, increasing their efficiency when used against enemies.