" 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, 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 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.

By creating these typologies it is possible to distinguish between different cultural styles, the purpose of the ceramic and technological state of the people among other conclusions.

By " open access " to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

By the late 1930s the Luftwaffe had no clear purpose.

By purpose, programming languages might be considered general purpose, system programming languages, scripting languages, domain-specific languages, or concurrent / distributed languages ( or a combination of these ).

By attaching a counterweight at the end ( or by further extending the cable upward for the same purpose ), the center of mass is kept well above the level of geostationary orbit.

By taking pieces of the enemy material to edit together and placing his own narration over the results, Capra gave meaning and purpose to the war with added narrative.

By artificial it means that Indonesian was designed by academics rather than evolving naturally as most common languages have, in order to accommodate the political purpose of establishing an official unifying language of Indonesia.

By early 1828, Turner was convinced that he " was ordained for some great purpose in the hands of the Almighty.

By the time the dam generated power in early 1945, the electricity was used for another purpose in addition to aluminum manufacturing.

By 1968, the FYDP covered ten military areas: strategic forces, general purpose forces, intelligence and communications, airlift and sealift, guard and reserve forces, research and development, central supply and maintenance, training and medical services, administration and related activities, and support of other nations.

By 1963, the plan had been changed to a dual purpose 55, 000 GRT ship that was designed to cruise in the off season.

By 1940, seeing that the Chinese Air Force had collapsed, because of ill-trained Chinese pilots and shortage of equipment, Chiang Kai-shek sent Chennault to the United States to meet with Dr. T. V. Soong in Washington DC, with the following directed purpose: to get as many fighter planes, bombers, and transports as possible, plus all the supplies needed to maintain them and the pilots to fly the aircraft.

By the seventeenth century, the Inns obtained a status as a kind of university akin to the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, though very specialized in purpose.

Furthermore, traditional man's behavior gains purpose and meaning through the Sacred: " By imitating divine behavior, man puts and keeps himself close to the gods — that is, in the real and the significant.

By 1964, annual attendance exceeded half a million and a decision was taken to create a purpose built museum building in the grounds of the Beaulieu estate.

By using CBT patients record how much food they eat and periods of vomiting with the purpose of identifying and avoiding emotional fluctuations that bring on episodes of bulimia on a regular basis ( Gelder, Mayou and Geddes 2005 ).

By the late 1980s there were a number of efforts underway to provide an abstraction layer for this purpose.

By June 1949, when the CPP was formed with the avowed purpose of seeking immediate self-governance, Nkrumah had a mass following.

By 1897, it was clear the buildings being used were no longer suitable, and so £ 25, 000 was raised to build ' a very handsome school that would be enormous credit to the town and … so that it would answer its purpose for the next 100 years '.

" By herself, Mary admits that she needs more drugs and hopes that someday she will “ accidentally ” overdose, because she knows that if she did so on purpose, the Virgin would never forgive her.

By the start of the reign of George IV ( 1820 – 1830 ) the silver penny was exclusively being used for Maundy money, for which purpose it is still being coined today.