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.

By the standards of the 18th century, Versailles was a very modern European city.

* 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 first century BC Germanic languages had become prevalent, and the inhabitants were called Belgæ while the area was the coastal district of Gallia Belgica, the most northeastern province of the Roman Empire at its height.

By far the most prevalent transmitter is glutamate, which is excitatory at well over 90 % of the synapses in the human brain.

By that time the variant of the Northumbrian dialect ( prevalent in Northern England ) spoken in southeast Scotland was developing into the Scots language.

By 1727, the destruction had become so prevalent that Parliament made the demolition of machines a capital offense.

By the 10th century, the canons started the construction of the church of Saint Vincent ( Madelgaire ), which was to be completed during the following century in the prevalent Romanesque style of the period.

By 2012, 802. 11n based access points and client devices have already taken a fair share of the marketplace and with the finalization of the 802. 11n standard in 2009 inherent problems integrating products from different vendors are less prevalent.

By the early 1960s, this had become ( and remains ) the prevalent idea, mainly because the one Stegosaurus stenops fossil with the plates still articulated indicates this arrangement.

By the 3rd century, barrel making was prevalent throughout the Roman Empire.

By the early 20th Century, vermouth was fairly prevalent, and simple cocktails like the Sazerac had become a somewhat rare curiosity, which aided its popularity.

By far the most prevalent form of public transportation in the area is provided by minibus taxis.

By providing iron in addition to iodine in the convenient delivery vehicle of salt, it could serve as a sustainable approach to combating both iodine and iron deficiency disorders in areas where both deficiencies are prevalent.

" By far the most prevalent monument features a fully equipped Confederate soldier ( the same prototype held true for Union monuments ) in a realistic pose.

By the early 1890s, the number of visitors to Rye increased as tourism became more prevalent.

By far, the most prevalent bulk material for solar cells is crystalline silicon ( abbreviated as a group as c-Si ), also known as " solar grade silicon ".

By the mid-20th century, the number of examples of people skipping stages, such as going from hunter-gatherers to post-industrial service occupations in one generation, were so numerous that 19th-century evolutionism was effectively disproved.

By convention, until the mid 19th-century, a single large open chamber ( or ' hall ') formed an integral part of the building housing the council.

By his own person, he called into question many of the 19th-century European-American assumptions about race and Native Americans.

By examining survey results from the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union, the author demonstrates that liberalism in that region bears a stronger resemblance to 19th-century liberal nationalism than to the sort of universalist, Wilsonian liberalism described by democratic peace theorists, and that, as a result, liberals in the region are more, not less, aggressive than non-liberals.

By the beginning of the 19th-century, Misrata had been established as a major center for the Trans-Saharan trade route, where caravans carrying gold, leather, and slaves, regularly stopped.

By 2008 a total of 30, 000 items had been listed including an unexploded Second World War bomb, a jewel-encrusted chalice, a roll of 19th-century flock wallpaper and a coconut with carved face and hair.

By requiring that harmony move with the themes, 19th-century sonata form imposed a kind of discipline on composers, and also allowed audiences to comprehend the music by following the appearance of recognizable melodies.

By the late 19th-century, the caste system of Kerala had evolved to be the most complex to be found anywhere in India.

By the end of the 19th-century almost all newspapers in the western world were using pulp wood newsprint.