By presenting the card, the purchaser is typically entitled to either a discount on the current purchase, or an allotment of points that can be used for future purchases.

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 the mid-1970s, however, the debate had moved on to other issues as monetarists began presenting a fundamental challenge to Keynesianism.

By presenting ideological differences in life or death terms, Truman was able to garner support for this communism-containing policy.

By presenting material in her magazine that would " stimulate thought ", " arouse hope, courage and impatience ", and " express ideas which need a special medium ", she aimed to go against the mainstream media which was overly sensational.

By using a fictional country instead of a real one, authors can exercise greater freedom in creating characters, events, and settings, while at the same time presenting a vaguely familiar locale that readers can recognize.

By the 15th century, it had evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards ( known as " valentines ").

By contrast chronic dilatation ( especially in the elderly population ) may have a more insidious onset presenting, for instance, with Hakim's triad ( Adams triad ).

By presenting the external world as an object of faith, Jacobi legitimized belief and its theological associations.

By presenting Tweedlepunch as a highly respected phrenologist, Gilfain plots to marry off his clerks to the heads of the Florodora farms ( all young island girls ), thereby attaining even more control of the island.

By the time of the D-Day landings in 1944, he was presenting the magazine programme War Report which featured regular news from the beaches of Normandy.

By 1957, there were 19 tent theatres, many located in Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey, and all presenting musicals only.

By presenting the principles of anarchism in plain language, the New York anarchists hoped that readers might be swayed to support the movement or, at a minimum, that the book might improve the image of anarchism and anarchists in the public's eyes.

By presenting the contrast of struggle between Christianity and Islam, Gundulić continued Marko Marulić's glorification of the fights against the invading Ottoman Turks.

By this time he had recorded 16 albums, sold more than six million albums, and sung for Pope John Paul II, the Queen, and the Prince and Princess of Wales in a private recital, as well as presenting numerous children's television programmes.

By 1616, he was presenting in lectures his case for the circulation of the blood, but it was not until 1628 that he published it in his classic work, De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis.

By presenting subjects with neutral, sexually arousing and religious words while measuring GSR, Ramachandran was able to show that patients with TLE showed enhanced emotional responses to the religious words, diminished responses to the sexually charged words, and normal responses to the neutral words.

* July 19 – Trans World Airlines becomes the first airline to show regularly scheduled movies during its flights, presenting By Love Possessed to first-class passengers.

By presenting the wilderness to the public, dioramas nurtured an appreciation of our natural heritage, which, in turn, contributed to the growth of the Conservation Movement in the United States.

By 1936, two years after the death of his wife, Paderewski consented to appear in a film presenting his talent and art on the screen.

By presenting a light field using technology that maps each sample to the appropriate ray in physical space, one obtains an autostereoscopic visual effect akin to viewing the original scene.

By way of contrast, Status Quo became one of the most successful British rock acts by presenting an apparently unsophisticated style of boogie-based rock music ; and Van Morrison gained international critical acclaim through a blend of rock, jazz and blues styles.

By 1920, Ferriss had begun to develop his own style, frequently presenting the building at night, lit up by spotlights, or in a fog, as if photographed with a soft focus.

By presenting participants with information that was unfamiliar to their cultural backgrounds and expectations and then monitoring how they recalled these different items of information ( stories, etc.

By the end of January 1918, the Investigatory Commission of Petrograd Soviet ( probably same as of Revtribunal ) petitioned Sovnarkom to delineate the role of detection and judicial-investigatory organs.

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

By the end of that month, eight political parties had registered to contest the first stage of the transition process: election to the Constitutional Commission, which took place on 23 – 26 July 1992.

By 1999, estimates provided by the State Sports Commission suggest there were 60 to 70 millions Falun Gong practitioners in China.

By the mid 1950s, the Commission that had held the peace for so many years was unraveling.

By 1976 she was head of the animal-disease-control division of D. C .' s Commission on Public Health, and in 1980 was among those named as Washingtonian of the Year.

By July 2013, the business and housing components of BTH will be consolidated with the consumer components of SCSA to form the new Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency ; the remainder of SCSA and the Technology Agency will merge into the new Government Operations Agency ; and the transportation components of BTH along with the formerly separate California Transportation Commission will become part of the new Transportation Agency.

Bibb County By Vicky Clemmons, David Daniel, Centreville Historic Preservation Commission

By 1959, tensions rose to the point where the Metropolitan Municipalities Commission, a predecessor of the Twin Cities-wide Metropolitan Council, asked the then-State Attorney General Walter Mondale to contest the Hilltop charter to the Minnesota Supreme Court.

By the time military rule ended in 1983 some 1, 500 people had been killed directly by “ death squads ”, and over 9, 000 named people and many more undocumented victims had been “ disappeared ”— kidnapped and murdered secretly — according to the officially appointed National Commission on Disappeared People ( CONADEP ).

By 1981, residents grouped together to solicit the Clark County Commission to create an unincorporated town, which it did that May.

By 1986 there were calls for the full privatisation of the Forestry Commission and its estate.

By 1980, the population reached 138, 850. Charles R. Matthews served as mayor in the 1980s ; he was later a member of the elected Texas Railroad Commission.

By the middle of the nineteenth century it proved possible to pay a small dividend, the debt to the Exchequer Bill Loan Commission having been repaid with the help of a loan of £ 60, 000 from the Pelican Life Assurance Company.

By 1950, support for major areas of research had already become dominated by specialized agencies such as the National Institutes of Health ( medical research ) and the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission ( nuclear and particle physics ).

By the time of its completion and the inauguration of regular through train service on Sunday, November 27, 1910, the total project cost to the Pennsylvania Railroad for the station and associated tunnels was $ 114 million ( approximately $ 2. 7 billion in 2011 dollars ), according to an Interstate Commerce Commission report.

By 17 March, the park was created, becoming the first National Historic Site in Canada, and was placed under the auspices of the newly and specifically formed National Battlefields Commission, a group that, following the lead of King Edward VII, began to collect historical data relating to the plains and the battles that took place on them.

Report of the Secretary of War Communicating, In Compliance With a Resolution of the Senate of February 4, 1867, a Copy of the Evidence Taken at Denver and Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory, By a Military Commission, Ordered to Inquire into the Sand Creek Massacre, November, 1864.

By October 1915, the new Graves Registration Commission had over 31, 000 graves registered and 50, 000 by May 1916.

By law, no more than three Commissioners can be members of the same political party, and at least four votes are required for any official Commission action.

By 1980, Uganda was governed by an interim Presidential Commission.

* Nishiura, Elizabeth, editor, American Battle Monuments: A Guide to Military Cemeteries and Monuments Maintained By the American Battle Monuments Commission, Omnigraphics Inc., Detroit, Michigan 1989

By 2003, roughly half of DynCorp ’ s business came from managing the IT departments of the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission, among others.

By 1666 he had inspired the creation of a Commerce Commission ( Kommerzkollegium ) in Vienna, as well as the reestablishment of the first postwar silk plantation on the Lower Austrian estates of Hofkammer President Sinzendorf.

By 1969, the role of the Welsh Office had expanded to also cover responsibilities for highway construction and maintenance, tourism, water, forestry, common land, the Historic Buildings Council for Wales, and the Countryside Commission in Wales.