By sheer tenacity of purpose, Bestuzhev had extricated his country from the Swedish imbroglio ; reconciled his imperial mistress with the courts of Vienna and London ; enabled Russia to assert herself effectually in Poland, Turkey and Sweden ; and isolated the King of Prussia by forcing him into hostile alliances.

" By the sheer force of its numbers, the boomers were a demographic bulge that remodeled society as it passed through it.

By sheer coincidence, exactly 100 years later on 07 August 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory rover used its Radiation Assessment Detector ( RAD ) instrument to begin measuring the radiation levels on another planet for the first time.

By sheer bad luck, it turns out that the femme fatale had also been picked up by Haskell earlier.

" By the sheer force of its numbers, the boomers were a demographic bulge which remodeled society as it passed through it.

By sheer luck, they land in the dressing room of James Van Der Beek ( of Dawson's Creek ) and Jason Biggs ( of American Pie ), who happen to be playing Jay and Silent Bob in The Bluntman and Chronic Movie ; Silent Bob is somewhat upset that his comic-book counterpart is being played by the " pie fucker ".

By sheer bluff Toll first won over Hellichius, and, six weeks later ( August 12 ), the whole garrison of Kristianstad, arresting the few officers who proved recalcitrant ; taking possession of the records and military chest, and closing the gates in the face of the " Cap " high commissioner who had been warned by the English minister, John Gooderich, that something was afoot in the south.

By the time of the advance into India, after the deaths of senior generals from the older generation, there had been worrying instances among senior officers of their own generation, of treachery, a lack of sympathy with Alexander's aims of further integration of Persians into the army, and of sheer incompetence.

By the end of the summer, the sheer number of people that had been arrested made it one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history.

" By distilling the complex models, theories, rhetorical style and sheer volume of the Buddha's teachings into concise, crystalline verses, the Dhammapada makes the Buddhist way of life available to anyone ... In fact, it is possible that the very source of the Dhammapada in the third century B. C. E.

By sheer chance or random circumstances, a person may become wealthy just by being in the right place and time, and Hayek argued that it is impossible to devise a system to make opportunities equal without knowing how such interactions may play out.

By sheer coincidence there was in fact a large mountain there to receive the name.

By February 2010, he was recovering well as reported by bandmate Sharleen Spiteri in The Sunday Mail: " Ally is the most stubborn person I have ever come across, and I think his sheer pigheadedness is the reason he's still here!

By 9 October, they were attacking the massive 1, 500 foot ( 450 m ) high sheer escarpment behind Livergnano which appeared insuperable.

By encrypting the codes, it is not possible to use such a template, and any code must be created and distributed by Datel ; because of the sheer number of codes that can be created in this fashion, it is not plausible for Datel to release a list of codes with this versatility.

By 1990, the sheer excess volume and weight of traffic, combined with poor design and flaws in construction, resulted in serious structural deterioration being discovered in the bridge A decade-long repair and renovation programme was initiated to repair and strengthen the bridge.

By sheer chance Fitzroy Kelly and Alexander Cockburn, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Lord Chief Justice of England respectively both died in 1880, allowing the merger of the common law judges under John Coleridge, who had been Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and became Lord Chief Justice of England, by an Order in Council of 16 December 1880.

By extension, it is used in English to designate a master in an artistic field, usually someone with strong knowledge who instructs others in the field, though the term may sometimes be conferred through sheer respect for an artist's works.

By that time the audience and most of the Stones were exhausted ; Jagger's sheer stamina managed to keep them going until the end.

By the extreme difficulty of this operation, it can only be executed if the offensive force has a vast superiority, either in technology, organization, or sheer numbers.

Although he summarized it as " a relatively high-quality game ", he finished, " By the time I finally saw daylight again, emerging from the Labyrinth, I must admit that it wasn't exultation I felt, but sheer relief.

By 1970 the number and types of Regents Exams changed to reflect the changes in high school curriculum: vocational exams were discontinued, and the sheer number of exams were either dropped or consolidated as the curricular emphasis trended toward comprehensive examinations rather than the singularly focused tests of the past.

By sheer dint of logic, the created cannot be or become the Uncreated ; they cannot be one and the same.

By sheer chance, she spots Billy leaving her place and sees that his car is the very escape vehicle she was pressed into using during the hotel getaway.

By " chance ", he means all those particular comprehensible events which the viewer considers possible in accord with their experience.

By both chance and providence, Ruth, a destitute, widowed and childless outsider, becomes an ancestress of King David ( Ruth 4: 13 ).

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 the 1st century BCE, noxii were being condemned to the beasts ( damnati ad bestias ) in the arena, with almost no chance of survival, or were made to kill each other.

" By chance, a 35 mm nitrate composite master positive ( fine grain ) of the 1945 version survived.

By chance, Sally Hemings, a younger sister of James, was chosen ; she lived in the Jefferson household in Paris for about two years.

By December 1838, he had noted a similarity between the act of breeders selecting traits and a Malthusian Nature selecting among variants thrown up by " chance " so that " every part of newly acquired structure is fully practical and perfected ".

By December, after a chance encounter with chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, Doug Morris, Amos signed a " joint venture " deal with Universal Republic Records.

Few could disagree with McGonagall's closing judgement: ' I must now conclude my lay / By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay / That your central girders would not have given way ,/ At least many sensible men do say ,/ Had they been supported on each side with buttresses ,/ At least many sensible men confesses ,/ For the stronger we our houses do build ,/ The less chance we have of being killed '.

By chance, both spacecraft flew over cratered regions and missed both the giant northern volcanoes and the equatorial grand canyon discovered later.

By bonding ( interconnecting ) all exposed non-current carrying metal objects together, they should remain near the same potential thus reducing the chance of a shock.

By chance, he runs into an apologetic Sam.

By removing this rule, the stress on the joints and soft-tissue, as well as the chance of a fall, were decreased.

By calculating the area under the relevant portion of the graph for 50 trials, the archaeologist can say that there is practically no chance the site was inhabited in the 11th and 12th centuries, about 1 % chance that it was inhabited during the 13th century, 63 % chance during the 14th century and 36 % during the 15th century.

By chance, a mistaken order from General Rosecrans caused a gap to appear in the Union line and Longstreet took additional advantage of it to increase his chances of success.

By the end of February, relegation threatened, and when Newcastle offered Ardiles the chance to become their new boss, he accepted, becoming the club's first foreign manager.

By chance, one week later, Sgt Matt O ' Mara of No. 453 Squadron RAAF also crash landed on Bintan, and arranged for them to be collected.

By Markov's Inequality, the chance that it will yield an answer before we stop it is 1 / 2.

By July 2010 when a further six cats had been imported into the UK from Australia there was the chance to widen the gene pool and offer healthy, happy, genetically sound kittens to pet buyers within the UK and the US.

By chance he was in a summer camp in 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World War and was granted a regular, not wartime, commission in the British Army, in the Scots Guards, later serving in the 6th Guards Tank Brigade, a separate unit from the Guards Armoured Division.

By chance, Keaty and Jed end up working in the same building, although for different companies ; coincidentally like how they both stayed in the same guest house that burned down a few years before they both arrived at the beach.

By chance, an aging Acrisius was there and Perseus accidentally struck him on the head with his javelin ( or discus ), fulfilling the prophecy.

By chance, he is spotted by Odysseus and Diomedes while they are on a secret raid to plunder the Trojans.