By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

By December 1863 a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery absolutely was brought to Congress for passage.

By December 1790 Phillip was ready to return to England, but the colony had largely been forgotten in London and no instructions reached him, so he carried on.

By December they decided to try his plan and made him a Colonel.

By a decree of 27 December 1999, the constitution was suspended and all the institutions of government were dissolved.

By December, the capital city of Nanjing had fallen to the Japanese, and Chiang moved the government inland, first to Wuhan and later to Chongqing.

By December 2001, it was ratified by the ECMA, with ISO standardization following in April 2003.

By December 1918, he left his father's home to attempt to find a job in San Francisco, California.

By December 1981, however, the U. S. had already begun to support armed opponents of the Sandinista regime.

By the time of the national assembly elections in December 1992, only three had qualified.

By December 5, 1969, the entire four-node network was established.

By the afternoon of 20 December Vitellius was dead, his armies having been defeated by the Flavian legions.

By the middle of December, some high-speed runs were made, in excess of but still well below Campbell's existing record.

By December 2006, over 1, 237, 000 square kilometers of forest land in Canada ( about half the global total ) had been certified as being sustainably managed ( Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition ).

By the end of July 1948 Orwell was able to return to Jura and by December he had finished the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

By the first week in December 2005, it had sold over 1 million physical copies.

By December 1958, the game Gettysburg from the Avalon Hill company had particularly captured Gygax's attention.

By late December to early January, eastern grays begin to arrive in the calving lagoons of Baja.

By December 1941, Hitler's troops had advanced to within 20 miles of the Kremlin in Moscow.

By December 1996 the Conservatives had lost their majority in the House of Commons.

By December 5, three months after leaving Los Angeles, Carson had brought Kearny's men to within of their destination San Diego.

By the end of the second day, December 7, the Americans were nearly out of food and water, low on ammunition and weak from the journey along the Gila River.

By December 10, Kearny believed all hope was gone, and planned to attempt a breakout the next morning.

By 28 December, the museum was cleared of most works, except those that were too heavy and " unimportant paintings were left in the basement ".

By December 15, 2010 it broke the record for longest serving spacecraft at Mars, with 3, 340 days of operation, claiming the title from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.

Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.

By the 1940s, the term commonly was capitalized, Negro, but by the mid 1960s it was considered disparaging.

By extension, the term " embark " literally means to board the kind of boat called a " barque ".

By extension, the term is also used to refer to any system administrator who displays ( or wishes he could get away with ) the qualities of the original.

By that time, the majority of black people were U. S .- born, so use of the term " African " became problematic.

By 1800, the term was practically extinct.

Coal ( from the Old English term col, which has meant " mineral of fossilized carbon " since the 13th century ) is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds By comparison in 2007, natural gas provided of oil equivalent per day, while oil provided per day.

By extension, the term equinox may denote an equinoctial point.

By the English Middle Ages the term had been expanded to include not only the message, but also the New Testament which contained the message, as well as more specifically the four books of the Bible in which the life, death and resurrection of Jesus are portrayed.

By the time of the Protestant Reformation, Protestant theologians began to embrace the term evangelical as referring to " gospel truth ".

By analogy with the word " conlang ", the term conworld is used to describe these fictional worlds, inhabited by fictional constructed cultures.

By the late 1850s, one of these mentions the term " French fried potatoes ".

By the start of the fourteenth century the word appeared in English texts, indicating all three senses: the most common one, the legal term and the archaic usage.

By the 18th century, the term had gained its now common usage in France, and had begun to be used to refer purely to books of magic, which Owen Davies presumed was because " many of them continued to circulate in Latin manuscripts.

By the Hellenistic period, it began to also be associated with Greco-Roman mystery cults and ceremonies, becoming synonymous with the Greek term musterion.

By analogy with the ancient Greek term for agriculture, geoponics, the science of cultivating the earth, Gericke coined the term hydroponics in 1937 ( although he asserts that the term was suggested by W. A. Setchell, of the University of California ) for the culture of plants in water ( from the Greek hydro -, " water ", and ponos, " labour ").

By the turn of the twentieth century it had begun to be displaced by the shorter and purely Arabic term Islam and by 1938, when Orientalist scholars completed The Encyclopaedia of Islam, seems to have virtually disappeared from the English language.

By 1913 there were four planes, now including a British Sopwith and long term plans to create six naval air stations by 1918.

By analogy, the term letter is sometimes used for e-mail messages with a formal letter-like format.

By the time of the French Revolution some, such as the Enragés, began to use the term positively, in opposition to Jacobin centralisation of power, seeing " revolutionary government " as oxymoronic.

By the mid-15th century the term lollard had come to mean a heretic in general.

By extension, the term " Old Mandarin " is used by linguists to refer to the northern dialects recorded in materials from the Yuan dynasty.

By extension, the term " manichean " is widely applied ( often disparagingly ) as an adjective to a philosophy or attitude of moral dualism, according to which a moral course of action involves a clear ( or simplistic ) choice between good and evil, or as a noun to people who hold such a view.