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

By the time Lilian had been graduated from public school, her parents were doing quite well.

) By the time the streetcar pulled away, he had fallen in love with Paula.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.

By this time, as we shall see, the Tories were already planning to `` punish '' Steele for his political writing by expelling him from the House of Commons.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

By this time Woodruff had accurately measured Pike as a man of great personal pride, a man who would fly into a towering rage if his integrity were questioned, and who would be anxious to avenge himself.

By the time they reach that age, however, Aristotle no longer worries about the evil influence of comedies.

By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.

By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.

By that time, perhaps something better can be done ''.

By that time we should be in a much better position to determine the value of that aircraft as a weapon system.

By this time Henri's entire chest-back-lat-shoulder area is pumped-up to almost bursting point, and Claude takes time to do a bit more pectoral-front deltoid shaping work.

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.

By the time Barco reached the count of three, the situation seemed to Welch almost too good to be true.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

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 this time there is little doubt but what election plans were complete.

By the very nature of the situation, it is the union which has been able to select the time and place to bring pressure upon management.

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

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

* By intensifying the will-forces through exercises such as a chronologically reversed review of the day's events, the meditant can achieve a further stage of inner independence from sensory experience, leading to direct contact, and even union, with spiritual beings (" Intuition ") without loss of individual awareness.

By the early 20th century, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia had achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic populations remained under Ottoman rule.

By the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors began to subdue and colonize the region of present-day Chile, and the territory became a colony from 1540 to 1818, when it gained independence from Spain.

By this time, the forces of independence had grown continental in scope and were organized into two principal armies, one under the Venezuelan Simón Bolívar in the north and the other under the Argentine José de San Martín in the south.

By the time of its independence from Ethiopia in 1993, Eritrea ’ s economy had been destroyed by war and was dependent on income from ports and its small agricultural base.

By the mid-1960s, the East Pakistan was accounting for less than 60 % of the nation's export earnings, and by the time of Bangladesh's independence in 1971, this percentage had dipped below 50 %.

By the early 21st century, weakness in the Faroese economy had been eliminated and, accordingly, many minds turned once again to the possibility of independence from Denmark.

By the beginning of the Civil War, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland had recognized Finnish independence.

By the Treaty of Paris ( signed that September ), Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States.

By 1288 the city had secured its independence from the archbishop ( who relocated to Bonn ), and was ruled by its burghers.

By the end of 1909, an agreement had been reached providing for a reduction in the debt and the issuance of new 5 percent bonds: the bankers would control the Honduran railroad, and the United States government would guarantee continued Honduran independence and would take control of customer revenue.

By then Israel had retained its independence and increased its land area by almost 50 % compared to the 1947 UN Partition Plan.

By the time of Angolan independence in 1975, Luanda was a modern city.

By contrast, the residency, supported by French economic interests and vigorously backed by most of the colons, adamantly refused to consider even reforms short of independence.

By granting independence to Burma, the British government gave the new ruler, Aung San, control over areas that were not traditionally controlled by the Bamar.

By the middle of the 20th century, the great wave for independence was sweeping across Africa.

By July 1831, as the new countries of Venezuela and Ecuador were being established, the isthmus would again reiterate its independence, now under the same General Alzuru as supreme military commander.

By outwitting porteño diplomats in the negotiations that produced the Treaty of October 11, 1811 ( in which Argentina implicitly recognized Paraguayan independence in return for vague promises of a military alliance ), Francia proved that he possessed skills crucial to the future of the country.

By the late 1950s, when other emerging nations across the African Continent were demanding independence, a small group of São Toméans had formed the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe ( MLSTP ), which eventually established its base in nearby Gabon.

By appointing his own followers as bishops, he was able to retain some independence from the Carolingians, who most likely were content to give him leeway as long as Christianity was imposed on the Saxons and other Germanic tribes.

By 143 BC, the Jews in form of the Maccabees had fully established their independence.

By dictionary entries, the term subcontinent signifies " having a certain geographical or political independence " from the rest of the continent, or " a vast and more or less self-contained subdivision of a continent.

* April 17 – By Proclamation of the Queen of Canada on Parliament Hill, Canada patriates its constitution, gaining full political independence from the United Kingdom ; included is the country's first entrenched bill of rights.