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 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, Bird finds himself involved in a turf war between rival Italian ice cream vendors: the young interloper Trevor ( Alex Norton ) and the older, more established " Mr. McCool " ( Roberto Bernardi ).

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 luck, these men found the Valley of Copiapó, where a Spaniard called Gonzalo Calvo Barrientos, a Spaniard whom Pizarro had expelled from Peru for stealing objects the Inca had offered for his ransom, had already established a friendship with the local natives.

By a stroke of luck, a thaw prevented the Chatti from crossing the Rhine and coming to Saturninus ' aid.

By a tragic stroke of bad luck, he is spotted and shot down by Jack, who is bent on avenging his friend.

By this time, warring factions in Thebes wished him to return to that city, believing that his body would bring it luck.

By a stroke of luck, he is released on a technicality and returns to Tarascon with the lion's skin to a hero's welcome.

By luck Superdupont is a master in the savate also known as boxe française (" French boxing "), which gives some superiority over his opponents.

Hamilcar next invited Hanno to join forces, but cooperation between them was ineffective and the Peoples assembly voted to give Hamilcar sole command By the power of his personal influence among the mercenaries and the surrounding African peoples, superior strategy and some luck, Hamilcar, and also cooperation, if unenthusiastic, from Hanno the Great, Hamilcar crushed the revolt by ( 237 BC ) amid a war marked with cruelty atrocities from both sides.

By a stroke of luck, a band of Cossacks captured a messenger carrying Napoleon's plans to Bernadotte and quickly forwarded the information to General Pyotr Bagration.

By blaming fortune for his fall he came as close as he dared to denying his guilt ( i. e., he was dying because luck had been against him, not because he was guilty ).

By separating himself from his son and departing into Asia, Demetrius seemed to take his bad luck with him, but in reality it was the fear and the jealousy of the other kings.

By mid summer, though, Pompey had a fortunate stroke of luck.

By a stroke of luck, in 2373 Starfleet was able to capture an intact Jem ' Hadar fighter and reverse engineer the weapons, developing an effective defense.

By another stroke of luck, he missed being sent to Russia to fight the Bolsheviks by one space in line.

By luck ( or lack thereof ) the travelers, Doug and Tony, frequently found themselves thrown onto the precipice of major historical events: on board the Titanic before it hits the iceberg, in Pearl Harbor before the Japanese attack, on Krakatoa before it erupts, and so forth.

By contrast, the unassisted triple play is essentially always a matter of luck: a combination of the right circumstances with the relatively simple effort of catching the ball and running in the right direction with it.

By April 1851, 2, 000 miners had arrived in " Thompson's Dry Diggings " through the southern rout of old Emigrant Trail to test their luck, which took them straight through Modoc territory.

By a stroke of luck, the date of the burning coincides with a historical solar eclipse in the year 528, of which Hank had learned in his earlier life.

By quite a stroke of luck, he was able to procure a radio frequency and transmitter for $ 201.

By a stroke of luck, the school bell rang late and no children were outside when the bomb detonated.

By the time she was cast, Varsi already had an agent and had been searching for film roles for a long while, without any luck.

By subverting the Emergents ' management systems and by luck and human resilience, they defeat the ruling class of the Emergents.

By 1891, both his mother and father had died, and he went to Chicago to try his luck in the grain pit there, but did not find that he could satisfactorily predict the price of wheat and left the grain pit to become treasurer in the Stirling Boiler Company.

By good luck the brute precariously survived.