By both standards Thomas had the right to be proud.

By political, economic, geographic and natural standards, they were justified in doing so.

By supporting the efforts of the many faculty members who are working to attain ever higher standards, the president can encourage faculty leadership.

By the time pupils reach the sixth grade, their ethical and moral standards are fairly well developed ; ;

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.

By 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

By US legal standards this Italian culvert is an arch bridge

By introducing the high standards of Boasian anthropology, Sapir did incite antagonism from those amateur ethnologists who felt that they had contributed important work.

By Haitian standards, Magloire's rule was firm, but not harsh: he jailed political opponents, including Fignolé, and shut down their presses when their protests grew too strident, but he allowed labor unions to function, although they were not permitted to strike.

By the 1980s, though, as living standards increased, many instruments that were once too expensive to buy could be bought by the Taiwanese in preference to the harmonica.

By world standards, production costs for Iraqi oil are relatively low.

By today's standards, the quake ranged from 8. 4 to 8. 8 on the Richter Scale, slightly stronger than the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

By the end of 2007, standards and government authorities including IEC, IEEE, EU, and NIST proposed standards for binary prefixes and requiring the use of megabyte to strictly denote 1000 < sup > 2 </ sup > bytes and mebibyte to denote 1024 < sup > 2 </ sup > bytes.

By her days ' standards, the articles were extremely frank in their discussion of sexuality, and many New York Call readers were outraged by them, at least one of them wrote a letter in response canceling her subscription.

By colonial standards, public services were generally well-organised and praised for their efficiency.

By that time, Sudan had one of the lowest penetration rates ( 0. 23 %) even by regional standards.

By the standards of Karachi politics, where rallies of over fifty thousand people are common, this is regarded as unexpectedly small.

By the Asuka period, true sake — made from rice, water, and kōji mold (, Aspergillus oryzae )— was the dominant alcohol and had a very low content by non-Japanese standards.

By the end of 1990, most of the work on mapping existing character encoding standards had been completed, and a final review draft of Unicode was ready.

By the standards of the time, Venice's stewardship of its mainland territories was relatively enlightened and the citizens of such towns as Bergamo, Brescia and Verona rallied to the defence of Venetian sovereignty when it was threatened by invaders.

* The Law to Improve Occupational Old Age Pensions ( 1974 ), which extended coverage of occupational pensions whilst also “ co-ordinating them more closely with state pensions and setting minimum standards as regards benefit levels and the preservation of pension rights .” By 1976, as a result of this legislation, 65 % of private sector employees were covered by occupational schemes and over two-thirds of these workers were eligible for benefits equal to more than 15 % of their earnings at retirement.

By modern standards CP / M was primitive, owing to the extreme constraints on program size.

By the 1970s in the USA, clinics and laboratories devoted to the study of sleep and sleep disorders had been founded, and a need for standards arose.

By the end of the 18th century there were no factories or mills and only a few small cottage industries along the border with Zurich.

By the mid late 18th century developments in cheaper zinc distillation such as John-Jaques Dony's horizontal furnaces in Belgium and the reduction of tariffs on zinc as well as demand for corrosion resistant high zinc alloys increased the popularity of speltering and as a result cementation was largely abandoned by the mid 19th century.

By the 18th century an increasing number of new plants had arrived in Europe from newly discovered countries and the European colonies worldwide and a larger number of plants became available for study.

By the 18th century, the area from Sambas to Berau were tributaries to the Banjar Kingdom, but this eventually shrunk to the size of what is now South Kalimantan as a result of agreements with the Dutch.

By the 18th century, they were printed in white letter or roman type and often without much decoration ( as well as tune title ).

By the 18th century, the Ottoman Empire was driven out of Hungary, and Austria brought the empire under central control.

By the early 18th century, this initial portrayal was rejected by the Dominicans and Franciscans, creating a dispute among Catholics in East Asia that was known as the " Rites Controversy ".

By the middle of the 18th century, " casuistry " became a synonym for moral laxity.

By the 18th century, the cello had largely replaced other mid-sized bowed instruments.

By the 18th Congress there were only 31 members of the Central Committee, and of these only two were reelected.

By the 18th century, map-makers started to give credit to the original engraver by printing the phrase " After original cartographer " on the work.

By the early 18th century, the custom had become common in towns of the upper Rhineland, but it had not yet spread to rural areas.

By the mid — 18th century the French chemist Charles François de Cisternay du Fay had discovered two types of static electricity, and that like charges repel each other whilst unlike charges attract.

By the early 18th century, other publishers began to issue collections of dances as well ; a conservative estimate of the number of dances in the English style published between 1651 and 1810 would run to around 20, 000.

By the 18th century, a similar use was applied to harnesses or equipment used with horses.

By the beginning of the 18th century, the name " Grenada ", or " la Grenade " in French, was in common use.

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 18th century, however, Geneva had come under the influence of Catholic France, which cultivated the city elite, who tended to be at odds with the ordinary townsfolk – to the point that an abortive revolution took place in 1782.

By the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the breeding range of the Great Auk was restricted to Funk Island, Grimsey Island, Eldey Island, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and St. Kilda Island.

By the 18th century there was a square at the centre of the town, flanked by the town hall, a public gaol housing prisoners from all over the Lordship of Biscay, a hospital and a poor-house for local people.

By the end of the 18th century, three definitions of the gallon were in common use:

By the end of the 18th century, the tobacco industry in Virginia had been completely ruined by soil exhaustion and low prices.

By the start of the 18th century, a political union between Scotland and England became politically and economically attractive, promising to open up the much larger markets of England, as well as those of the growing British Empire.

By the 18th century there were five universities in Scotland, at Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews and King's and Marischial Colleges in Aberdeen, compared with only two in England.

By the 18th century, it had transformed itself into the Maratha Empire under the rule of the peshwas ( prime ministers ).