By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form ( see below ).

By late autumn, the death toll began to slow until, in February 1666, it was considered safe enough for the King and his entourage to return to the city.

By using the atmosphere of Mars to slow down the spacecraft in its orbit, rather than firing its engine or thrusters, Odyssey was able to save more than of propellant.

By the human perspective, resources are non-renewable when their rate of consumption exceeds the rate of replenishment / recovery ; a good example of this are fossil fuels, which are in this category because their rate of formation is extremely slow ( potentially millions of years ), meaning they are considered non-renewable.

By 1994, sales of CD-i systems had begun to slow, and in 1998 the product line was dropped.

By the 1920s, the British Government were seeking a replacement for their book code systems, which had been shown to be insecure, and which proved to be slow and awkward to use in practice.

By 1499, however, Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros grew frustrated with the slow pace of the efforts of Granada's first Archbishop, Fernando de Talavera, to convert non-Christians to Christianity and undertook a program of forced Christian baptisms, creating the Converso ( convert ) class for Moors and Jews.

The Fagaceae, or oak family, is a very slow evolving clade compared to other angiosperms, and the patterns of hybridization and introgression in Quercus pose a great challenge to the concept of a species since a species is often defined as a group of “ actually or potentially interbreeding populations which are reproductively isolated from other such groups .” By this definition, many species of Quercus would be lumped together according to their geographic and ecological habitat, despite clear distinctions in morphology and, to a large extent, genetic data.

By this point, the Yankees, long noted for being slow to adapt to changes in race relations, have come to develop many minority players in their farm system and seek out others via trades and free agency.

By founding the Exarchate of Ravenna, Maurice managed to slow down the Lombard advance in Italy, if not to halt it.

By 1923, Hopper ’ s slow climb finally produced a breakthrough.

By designing a tollgate specifically for electronic collection, it is possible to carry out open-road tolling, where the customer does not need to slow at all when passing through the tollgate.

By the time of the War of 1812, the Ojibwe were allied with the British against the United States, hoping to forestall or slow European-American settlers ' encroaching on their territory.

By the 1970s, locomotive type trains were regarded as slow and inefficient, and their use is now mostly limited to freight.

By the 1980 census, Coachella's population had reached at least 10, 000 due to relative slow population growth.

By this time other entrepreneurs had laid out additions to Millwood as well, but growth was slow until the coming of the Monon Railroad in 1882 which stimulated a commercial and industrial boom.

By the standards of 21st-century performance, however, Scherchen's and Boult's tempi were still slow, and there was no attempt at vocal ornamentation by the soloists.

By contrast, slow cooling of the second layer of basalt resulted in an extraordinary pattern of predominantly hexagonal columns which form the faces and walls of the principal caves.

By the early twentieth century beards began a slow decline in popularity.

By the end of the Jōmon period, a slow shift had taken place according to archaeological studies.

By the marriage contract the queen was to have a voice in the council of state after the birth of her first son, and she was not slow to avail herself of this means of political influence.

By July, Masséna had still failed to take Gaeta due to slow placement of the French artillery, slight reinforcements from the British by sea and a series of successful sorties by the Neapolitan garrison against the French sappers.

By this point in his life his memory was beginning to slow down and he stopped accepting speaking engagements but remained active in the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation.

By 1991, things were starting to slow down, as the PC industry moved from ST-506 and ESDI drives to ATA and SCSI, and thus were buying fewer hard disk controller boards.

By its nature, it is slow growing and adapted to a mineralized soil.

By 1966, Lewis, now 40, was no longer an angular juvenile and his routines seemed more labored.

By contrast, Leto labored for nine nights and nine days for Apollo, according to the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, in the presence of all the first among the deathless goddesses as witnesses: Dione, Rhea, Ichnaea, Themis and the " loud-moaning " sea-goddess Amphitrite.

By the time of Jefferson's death, some slave families had labored and lived for four generations at Monticello.

By describing the harsh conditions under which these women labored, Harding Davis is capitalizing on the idea that women are capable of integrating work life into their home life.

By these steps the final AIA list was reduced from 8,000 to 3,500.

By reversing the steps in the Euclidean algorithm, the GCD can be expressed as a sum of the two original numbers each multiplied by a positive or negative integer, e. g., 21 = × 105 + × 252.

# By tracking who pays, and when, the distributor can see potential problems developing and take steps to reduce or increase the allowed amount of trade credit he extends to prospering or posure to losses from customers going bankrupt who would never pay for the ice cream delivered.

By the mid-1980s, therefore, it had become essential that the PNDC demonstrate that it was actively considering steps towards constitutionalism and civilian rule.

By the time of Diocletian, however, this two-stage process had largely disappeared, and the Praetor would either hear the whole case in person or appoint a delegate ( a iudex pedaneus ), taking steps for the enforcement of the decision ; the formula was replaced by an informal system of pleadings.

By summing 1 + ½ + ¼ +... ( a geometric series ) we see that the machine performs infinitely many steps in a total of 2 minutes.

By January 3, 1965, the new acting chancellor, Martin Meyerson, established provisional rules for political activity on the Berkeley campus, designating the Sproul Hall steps an open discussion area during certain hours of the day and permitting tables.

By December 1957, Sukarno began to take concrete steps to enforce his authority over the country.

By contrast the S < sub > N </ sub > 1 reaction involves two steps.

By his alliance with John, Elector of Saxony, concluded in Gotha on 27 February 1526, he showed that he was already taking steps to organize a protective alliance of all Protestant princes and powers.

By taking substantive voluntary steps, they can persuade governments and the wider public that they are taking issues such as health and safety, diversity, or the environment seriously as good corporate citizens with respect to labour standards and impacts on the environment.

By the time the platform has completed almost a full rotation, another milker or a machine removes the cups and the cow steps backwards off the platform and then walks to its feed.

Television Heaven's review concluded by saying, " By turns amusing, aware, suspenseful, exciting and imaginative, ' Dark Season ' stands as an almost criminally overlooked example of children's genre television of the highest quality, and also as an early indication of a future major creative talent in the form of Russell T Davies taking his first steps on the long and winding creative road to a glittering future.

By moving away from traditional minstrel shows, Sam T. Jack ’ s production was predominantly influenced by the styles of vaudeville ( with more focus on the beauty and exotic aspects of showgirls ), reviving the cakewalk and adding fancy steps.

By the end of the 20th century the complexity of Quickstep as done by advanced dancers had increased, due to the extensive use of syncopated steps with eighth note durations.

By September 1971 the final steps toward the realization of a college were taken when Camosun ( Lansdowne campus ) and the BC Vocational School ( Interurban campus ) merged to become BC ’ s ninth community college.

By some doctors, the surgery is done in two steps, first the contents of the breast are removed through either a cut inside the areola or around it, and then let the skin retract for about a year, where in a second surgery the excess skin is removed.

By doing tandem mass spectrometry in time, the separation is accomplished with ions trapped in the same place, with multiple separation steps taking place over time.

By 2005, the corporation began taking tentative steps towards re-expanding local news programming, with CBNT in St. John's reinstating a full-hour " Here & Now " broadcast in November.

By the time of the towers ' removal in 1998 some steps up the tower had rotted and the tower itself showed signs of age.

By March 2009 it reached the Quebec National Assembly where a motion was presented and carried " That the National Assembly support the steps taken and supported by the population of Québec in order that Montreal Canadians management retire the sweater of Émile " Butch " Bouchard eminent defenceman from 1941 to 1956.

By his exertions Straus successfully halted any steps to expel American citizens who happened to be Jews (" U. S. For.

The company stumbled through the steps of a hat and cane routine (" Side By Side ") and thus revealed to the audience the physical limitations of the characters ' singing and dancing.

By the end of his stay in Paris, he likely became a supporter of reforms in France and Poland, and begun taking his first serious steps in political activism, through the involvement in the Quattuowirat, a group of magnates planning a ( never realized ) confederacy.