By 1080, a huge area had been lost to the Empire, and the Turks were within striking distance of Constantinople.

By this time large Chinese infantry-based armies of 100, 000 to 200, 000 troops were now buttressed with several hundred thousand mounted cavalry in support or as an effective striking force.

By contrast, the " Verb of Similarity " ( فعل المضارع, fi ' l al-mudaara ' ah ), so called because of its resemblance to the active participial noun, is considered to denote an event in the present or future without committing to a specific aspectual sense beyond the incompleteness implied by the tense: يضرب " yadribu ", he strikes / is striking / will strike / etc.

By drawing bait on a wire towards the cage, tour operators lure the shark to the cage, possibly striking it, exacerbating this problem.

By 960 the Song Dynasty, short of copper for striking coins, issued the first generally circulating notes.

By striking this device into the water, they were able to catch ten to twelve fish per try, quickly filling their canoes.

By slightly varying striking and finger position, skilled players can selectively emphasize different slap harmonics and create melodies of differently pitched slaps.

By daylight on 3 August, the German, Austrian and Ottoman force had occupied Katia and were within striking distance of Romani, Dueidar, Hill 70 and the Suez Canal.

By tucking the thumb into the palm, a striking surface called the ridge-hand, or reverse knife-hand is formed, extending a few inches along the inside of the hand below the first knuckle of the first finger.

By striking randomly and with deliberate senselessness at a collection of percussion instruments, the two ( as ' Tessier ' and ' Schmidt ') had produced a strenuously meaningless twelve-minute ' work ' of superficially ' avant-garde ' character ; this was completed by the addition of a selection of human whistling sounds ( evidently meant to represent the ' tape '), and with the resulting chaos being edited into some kind of whole by BBC technicians.

By May 6, he had pitched in ten games without allowing any runs while allowing only three hits and striking out 12 batters.

By contrast, 30-hour clocks often had a single weight to drive both the timekeeping and striking mechanisms.

By the 1940s, Texas conservative Democrats were irritated with Roosevelt and his New Deal and they were also unhappy about the Supreme Court striking down the segregated primary in Smith v. Allwright.

By the early 20th century, racial and ethnic diversity had become one of Sixth Street's most striking characteristics.

By his energetic example, his enthusiastic exposition, and his overall generosity, he has made striking changes in mathematics and has inspired generations of younger mathematicians.

By April 1949, NAS Jacksonville was the East Coast's aircraft capital, with more naval aircraft stationed here than at any other naval base from Nova Scotia to the Caribbean – 60 percent of the Fleet's air striking force in the Atlantic area from pole to pole.

By the final stage before pupation the caterpillars have developed striking coloration, having a yellow / cream stripe down their bright green / blue body and nodes of red and blue.

By 12 July 2009, Parlon and the Electrical Contractors Association had agreed to pay the striking electricians a pay increase of 4. 9 %, rather than a pay cut of 10 % which he had publicly demanded.

By striking the Adaptoid's nega-bands together, Mar-Vell banishes the character to the Negative Zone indefinitely.

By banding together into " unions " and refusing to work, or “ striking ,” workers would halt production at a plant or in a mine, forcing management to meet their demands.

By helping to bring them hope and electricity you are also striking a very important blow for the cause of freedom throughout the world.

By using such a long, heavy, round-nose lead bullet in a. 38 calibre cartridge, it was found that the bullet, being minimally stabilised for its weight and calibre, tended to ' keyhole ' or tumble longitudinally when striking an object, theoretically increasing wounding and stopping ability of human targets at short ranges.

By 4 a. m. the players were " delirious " from exhaustion ; Rochester's Dave Huppert had caught the first 31 innings before being replaced, and Jim Umbarger pitched 10 scoreless innings from the 23rd inning, striking out nine and giving up four hits.

By applying a texture to the surface of the solar cell, the reflected light can be refracted into striking the surface again, thus reducing the overall light reflected out.

By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

`` By telling him you are making passes at me ''??

`` By God '', Waddell said, `` we don't want to upset the boy at this time of all times.

By subduing disparate lesser groups the nation has, to some degree at least, broadened the capacity for individual liberty.

By now he had become Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the Order of Merit.

By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

By this standard, it is determined that where two stations operating on the same frequency are involved, objectionable interference from station A exists at any point within the service area of station B where station A's signal is of an intensity one-twentieth or more of the strength of station B's signal at that point.

By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

By the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading, he is completely familiar and at ease with all of the elements of words.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

By clarifying fundamental premises in the social sciences, and defining the logical problems emergent at the borderlands of each new scientific discipline, philosophy can offer the sort of distinction that can accelerate growth in human understanding.

By 800 social and cultural security had been achieved, at least on a simple plane ; ;

By this procedure rinsing progresses in two stages, first by dilution until the time when the drains are separated and thereafter by displacement of the soil-bearing liquor by clean rinse water, since soiled liquor squeezed from the specimens at the nip passes directly to waste from the suds box drains.

By airline from Concord to Burlington is a distance of about 150 miles, counting a slight deviation for the stop at either Barre or Montpelier.

By using instruments of gradually increasing size, the vagina is gently, and with minimum pain at each stage, taught to yield to an object of the appropriate shape.

By means of charts showing wave-travel times and depths in the ocean at various locations, it is possible to estimate the rate of approach and probable time of arrival at Hawaii of a tsunami getting under way at any spot in the Pacific.

By tradition, a red wine should be served at approximately room temperature -- if anything a little cooler -- and be aged enough for the tannin and acids to have worked out and the sediment have settled well.

By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.

I grinned at him, handed him a couple of dollars and said, `` By the time you get the parking charge figured up, there should be a cigar in it for you ''.

By the end of 1863, at Lincoln's direction, General Lorenzo Thomas had recruited 20 regiments of blacks from the Mississippi Valley.