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By stripping it of its powers over temples, Augustus effectively destroyed the office, by taking from it its original function.
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By stripping away a more monochrome palette that had been applied to the room in the 1970s, this restored the ballroom to a scheme closer to the original that was in place when the room was first completed in 1872.
By stripping the general ( Toni Ribas ) of all his rank and power, then sending him to become a slave who must fight in the arena to entertain the citizens, the thought is that the general will die an early death and never bother him again.
By and its
By prevailing over other claimants for the loyalties of men, the nation-state maintained an adequate measure of certainty and order within its territorial borders.
By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.
By June 19, 1788, he had presented himself to its Commander in Chief, the Governor of the Southern Provinces, the Director of the War College -- The Prince.
By limiting American strength too much to nuclear strength, this country limited its ability to fight any kind of war besides a nuclear war.
By reducing rates as much as 60 per cent, it and its associated railroads hope to win back some of the business they have lost to truckers and barge lines.
By 1883 the `` Battenkill Telegraph Company '' was in existence and Alvin Pettibone was its president.
) By its greater corporeal presence and its greater extraneousness, the affixed paper or cloth serves for a seeming moment to push everything else into a more vivid idea of depth than the simulated printing or simulated textures had ever done.
By its nature it has always been of great psychological advantage and small efforts have required considerably greater counter-efforts.
By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labour.
By the time we arrived and entered the building sacred music was already swelling out into the chapel-like auditorium with its discreet symbols of religious faiths.
By night, an aardwolf can consume up to 200, 000 harvester termites using its sticky, long tongue.
By knowing the coordinates of an object ( usually given in equatorial coordinates ), the telescope user can use the setting circle to align the telescope in the appropriate direction before looking through its eyepiece.
By its inclusion the order has grown enormously in number of species.
By its geological origin, islands forming archipelagos can be referred to as oceanic islands, continental fragments and continental islands.
By having three stations, a total of three different cars can be operated on at the same time, each one at a different stage of its assembly.
Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — By what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?
By its terms the boundary between Alfred ’ s and Guthrum ’ s kingdoms was to run up the River Thames, to the River Lea ; follow the Lea to its source ( near Luton ); from there extend in a straight line to Bedford ; and from Bedford follow the River Ouse to Watling Street.
By terms of the treaty, moreover, Alfred was to have control over the Mercian city of London and its mints — at least for the time being.
By now, the war is nearing its end and the German Army is retreating.
By 1987, however, the USSR withdrew its opposition, concluding the SDI posed no threat.
By definition a multilinear map is alternating if it vanishes whenever two of its arguments are equal.
By and powers
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 law, Augustus held a collection of powers granted to him for life by the Senate, including supreme military command, and those of tribune and censor.
By the mid 1960s, binary addressing had become the standard architecture in most computer designs, and main memory sizes were most commonly powers of two.
By moving the centre of government ( more or less formally ) to the imperial court, Domitian openly rendered the Senate's powers obsolete.
By this, Plutarch probably means that as Plebeian Tribune, Metilius had the Plebeian Council, a popular assembly which only Tribunes could preside over, grant Minucius quasi-dictatorial powers.
By keeping very cool relations to NATO, and to western military powers in general, Finland could fend off Soviet preludes for affiliation to the Warsaw Pact.
By a series of decrees in 1717, Alberoni reduced the powers of the grandees in royal councils.
By the turn of the 19th century they became new powers, having divided Poland between them, with Sweden and Turkey having experienced substantial territorial losses to Russia and Austria respectively as well as pauperisation.
By this point the coastal trading cultures were thoroughly dominant over the inland river valleys that had once been the heart of the great powers.
By the end of World War I Poland had seen the defeat or retreat of all three partitioning powers.
By the late 1800's, the nation had become weak, and had been reduced to its present day size due to the encroachment of rival imperial powers such as the Ottoman Turks, the British, and the Russians.
By reaching into his mind, Emma reactivates Bobby's powers through opening a series of mental blocks he has placed on himself, and saves him from near death.
By the time Monroe became president, several European powers, in particular Spain, were attempting to re-establish control over South America.
By late 1943, the tide of the war was turning against the Axis powers, but this only spurred Goebbels to intensify the propaganda by urging the Germans to accept the idea of total war and mobilization.
By the 16th century Germanic dominance in the region was increasingly challenged by other powers.
By 1909, Liberia faced serious external threats to its sovereignty from the European colonial powers over unpaid foreign loans and annexation of its borderlands. http :// www. globalsecurity. org / military / ops / liberia. htm
" By means of religion ," d ' Alembert wrote, " the Jesuits established a monarchical authority in Paraguay, founded solely on their powers of persuasion and on their lenient methods of government.
By this time, too many principles defining some powers as " untouchable " had been implemented.
By contrast, most non-ionizing radiation is harmful to organisms only in proportion to the thermal energy deposited, and is conventionally considered harmless at low powers which do not produce significant temperature rise.
By doing this he wishes to establish within the younger members of his community a scheme to discern right and wrong actions through the powers of the mind.
By the middle of the 17th century the Realm of Sweden had reached its greatest territorial extent and was one of the great powers of Europe.
By the Greco-Roman era, many of them were considered healers, and were said to have other special powers, including dream interpretation and the ability to control the weather, which they did by braiding or not combing their hair.
By most definitions, characters do not strictly require actual superhuman powers to be deemed superheroes, although terms such as costumed crime fighters are sometimes used to refer to those such as Batman and Green Arrow without such powers who share other common superhero traits.
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