: " By the step leading up into the sleeping-car stood a young Belgian lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small man ( Hercule Poirot ) muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled moustache.

" had composed a brilliant new score ( his most subtle yet ) to a scintillating libretto .... Iolanthe is the work in which Sullivan's operetta style takes a definite step forward, and metamorphosis of musical themes is its characteristic new feature .... By recurrence and metamorphosis of themes Sullivan made the score more fluid ...." Much of Sullivan's " fairy " music pays deliberate homage to the incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

By parametrizing the space of models, the belief in all models may be updated in a single step.

By road: Vitoria is connected both with the rest of the Basque capital and with Madrid, because it is step by the city of NI.

By late 1946 the weakening British economy meant the British could no longer support Greece, and so London asked the U. S. to step in.

By morning he started hallucinating " big spiders, and dinosaurs, huge, and they were gonna step on me.

By 1947, the installation was declared to be excess, the first step toward demilitarization.

By the late 1950s the issue was so well understood that many companies started investing in the development of supersonic airliners, or SSTs, believing that to be the next " natural " step in airliner evolution.

By our assumption, the matrix associated to a list of intervals will remain essentially unchanged from one time step to the next.

By analogy with this physical process, each step of the SA algorithm attempts to replace the current solution by a random solution ( chosen according to a candidate distribution, often constructed to sample from solutions near the current solution ).

By 1985 Kru-Cut had produced World Class ’ debut album, ‘ World Class ’, with Cli-N-Tel leaving to control his own direction in life, leaving the group ’ s dancer Shakespear to step up to be the prominent MC as they signed with Epic Records.

By 12 March he had established that, should the Home Rule Bill be passed under the Parliament Act 1911, the Army Annual Act should be amended in the Lords to stipulate that the Army could not " be used in Ulster to prevent or interfere with any step which may thereafter be taken in Ulster to organise resistance to the enforcement of the Home Rule Act in Ulster nor to suppress any such resistance until and unless the present Parliament has been dissolved and a period of three months shall have lapsed after the meeting of a new Parliament ".

* By making each dependent step simpler, pipelining can enable complex operations more economically than adding complex circuitry, such as for numerical calculations.

By the end of 1977 when he chose to step down from the position, he had become the longest-serving UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

By assessing the current organizational culture as well as the preferred situation, the gap and direction to change can be made visible as a first step to changing organizational culture.

By the early 1990s, however, it had become clear that the Sierra had fallen out of step technologically against modern Japanese rivals which offered multi-valve engines and multi-link rear suspension.

* U. S. nears key step in European defense shield against Iranian missiles, By Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, August 1, 2010.

By process of social evolution, it followed that the clans / families prominent in a particular district would wear the tartan of that district, and it was but a short step for that community to become identified by it.

By connecting the thyristor-controlled reactor, which is continuously variable, along with a capacitor bank step, the net result is continuously-variable leading or lagging power.

By avoiding an intermediate mechanical step, the energy conversion efficiency can be improved over the hybrids already discussed, by avoiding unnecessary energy conversions.

By 1973, Allende has lost the support of most Christian Democrats ( except for Tomic's left-wing faction ), some of whom even began calling for the military to step in.

* By compass points: Assuming that the dancer faces North at any moment, one may say, e. g., " take a step North-West ".

* By clock: Assuming that the dancer stands at the center of a clock with hands and faces 12, one may say, e. g., " take a step at two o ' clock ".

By 1775 Eden's authority had been effectively usurped by the Annapolis Convention and Eden was eventually asked by the Maryland Council of Safety to step down as governor.

By North Carolina law, he had to step down in 2006, after his 72nd birthday.

By comparing the form of several yupanas, researchers found that calculations were based using the Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 and powers of 10, 20 and 40 as place values for the different fields in the instrument.

By moving the lowest 8 KB of RAM outside of reach of the ULA, the CPU could always access it at 2 MHz.

By the time of the war, they fielded the SdKfz 10 / 4 and 6 / 2, cargo halftracks mounting single 20 mm or 37 mm AA guns ( respectively ).

By 2003 in the US, an estimated 3. 21 million patients received antipsychotics, worth an estimated $ 2. 82 billion.

By 1995, many of the DOS-based BBSes had begun switching to modern multitasking operating systems, such as OS / 2, Windows 95, and Linux.

*" Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language " – By Brian Kernighan, AT & T Bell Labs, 2 April 1981

By managing all four populations as one-through strategic transfers, gene-loss is reduced from 8 % per decade to 2 % per decade, without any increase in bongo numbers in Kenya.

By contrast, the normal vaginal discharge will vary in consistency and amount throughout the menstrual cycle and is at its clearest at ovulation-about 2 weeks before the period starts.

By the end of World War 2, Canadians communicated by telephone, more than any other country.

By removing the bicarbonate more H < sup >+</ sup > is generated from carbonic acid ( H < sub > 2 </ sub > CO < sub > 3 </ sub >) which come from CO < sub > 2 </ sub >( g ) produced by cellular respiration.

By way of contrast, when introduced in 1985, the Amiga had compared favorably against 286-based systems with EGA graphics and rudimentary sound capabilities that frequently cost 2 – 3 times as much.

By comparison, when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, it released ~ 1. 2 km < sup > 3 </ sup > ( DRE ) of ejecta.

By 1990, Compaq Europe was a $ 2 billion business, and foreign sales contributed 54 percent of Compaq's revenues.

" By various stratagems the jealous king seeks his death, but the plots only endear David the more to the people, and especially to Saul's son Jonathan, who loves David ( 1 Samuel 18: 1, 2 Samuel 1: 25 – 26 ).

By 2 November, he had only reached Citivas Iovia ( Botivo, near Ptuj, Slovenia ).

By 1901 the population of Emsworth was about 2, 000.

By 1969 West German cinema attendance at 172. 2 million visits per year was less than a quarter of its 1956 post-war peak.

By inspection, each of the small natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, ... is the product of primes.

By use of a pulsed irrigation timer, existing overhead sprinklers may be used to deliver water at a low average precipitation rate ranging from 2. 5 to 5ml / Hour for frosts down to-5deg.

By 1970 the national census registered 8. 5 million people, about a 27 percent increase, while the most recent official census in 1984 recorded a figure of 12. 3 million — almost double the 1960 figure ( see table 2, Appendix ).

By the end of January 1959 the new army had reached a strength of around 2, 000 officers and soldiers.

By taking the intersection of p ( 1 ), p ( 2 ), p ( 3 ),... he formed p ( ω ), and then he noticed that p ( ω ) had a set of limit points p ( ω + 1 ), and so on.

By 2112, he was using two Ampeg SVTs, one which ran into 2 Sunn 215 cabs, and one which ran into 2 Ampeg V4b 215 cabs.