By making the graffiti less explicit ( as adapted to social and legal constraints ), these drawings are less likely to be removed but do not lose their threatening and offensive character.

By this time Muslim invaders had conquered Hispania and were threatening the Frankish kingdoms.

By 1599, however, he again felt his work limited by the inaccuracy of available data — just as growing religious tension was also threatening his continued employment in Graz.

By mid-2003, LURD controlled the northern third of the country and was threatening the capital, MODEL was active in the south, and Taylor's government controlled only a third of the country: Monrovia and central Liberia.

By the middle of 739, Liutprand was encroaching once again on the Exarchate, and threatening Rome.

By the 26 July, the Potsdam Declaration had been broadcast to Japan, threatening total destruction unless the Imperial Japanese government submitted to unconditional surrender.

By September 1977, Somalia controlled 90 % of the Ogaden and captured strategic cities such as Jijiga and put heavy pressure on Dire Dawa, threatening the train route from the latter city to Djibouti.

By 1893, he was annoyed by his mistreatment in the streets and wrote an angry poem threatening to leave Dundee.

By 1949, with the success of television threatening the film industry more and more, Harry Warner decided to shift his focus towards television production.

By removing the jurisdiction of federal courts, including the Supreme Court, from cases involving the Pledge, this legislation sets a dangerous precedent: threatening religious liberty, compromising the vital system of checks and balances upon which our government was founded, and granting Congress the authority to strip the courts ' jurisdiction on any issue it wishes.

By threatening any weakened Norwegian defence the Allies hoped to prevent or delay reinforcement of France following the Normandy invasion.

By threatening to release him, the Senate is able to influence events in the Seleucid kingdom.

By 1946, Soviet designers were still having trouble in perfecting the German-designed, axial-flow jet engine, and new airframe designs and near-sonic wing designs were threatening to outstrip development of the jet engines needed to power them.

By 3: 45 p. m., the same day the hole was larger, by and deeper ; that evening it was a large hole filled with water with rotted timbers floating on top and was 375 to deep, threatening to flood the highway.

By law Mesrine could not profit from L ' instinct de Mort but the publishers had received a threatening letter from him in 1979 demanding payment nonetheless.

By 22 October, the Royalist army was quartered in the villages around Edgecote, and was threatening the Parliamentarian post at Banbury.

By the night of 10 December, the peaks were taken, threatening the German positions in the gap.

By September 2006, Newcastle were threatening to sue the FA for further compensation, for a reported figure of £ 20m.

By April 2007, Newcastle were threatening to take out an injunction to stop the FA from picking Owen for England games.

By July 1942 the German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel had struck deep into Egypt, threatening the vital Allied supply line across the Suez Canal.

By 14 March, when the second reading came on, the controversy had assumed threatening proportions ; and George Dixon, the Liberal member for Birmingham and chairman of the National Education League, moved an amendment, the effect of which was to prohibit all religious education in board schools.

By 1 May this army was threatening the garrisons that Charles had left in a trail down Italy to guard his communications with France.

By threatening to withhold that key product unless others are also purchased, the supplier can increase sales of less necessary products.

By threatening to use nuclear weapons in 1953, Eisenhower ended the war with a truce that is still in effect.

By then, the Prussians of the 1st Guards Infantry Division and the XII and II Corps captured St. Privat forcing the decimated French forces to withdraw.

By September, Marshal Brune completed the occupation of Swedish Pomerania, allowing the Swedish army, however, to withdraw with all its munitions of war.

By the late 1980s, however, the party watched as Mikhail S. Gorbachev attempted to withdraw the CPSU from day-to-day economic affairs.

By 1954, he was a major and led a battalion that attacked a Việt Minh unit, forcing the communists to withdraw from Phan Rang.

By fueling his paranoia towards Agrippina and the Senate he induced the emperor to withdraw to the countryside of Campania, which he did in 26, and finally to the island of Capri, where he would spend the remainder of his life until his death in 37.

By this day, Wellington had finally decided to withdraw his army all the way back to Portugal.

By early 1917 President Venustiano Carranza had contained Villa and secured the border, so Wilson ordered Pershing to withdraw.

By 1503 Louis, having been defeated at the Battle of Cerignola and Battle of Garigliano, was forced to withdraw from Naples, which was left under the control of a Spanish viceroy, General de Córdoba.

By May, Israel agreed to withdraw from some parts of the Golan Heights.

By 17: 00 the men of the 1st Parachute Battalion were almost out of ammunition, and were forced to withdraw to the southern side of the bridge.

By 1921 the Bolsheviks were winning the Russian Civil War and although foreign troops were beginning to withdraw, Bolshevik leaders continued to keep tight control of the economy through the policy of War Communism.

By the terms of the Protocol, Ecuador agreed to withdraw its long-standing claim for rights to direct land access to the Marañon and Amazon rivers ; Peru agreed to withdraw Peruvian military forces from Ecuadorian territory.

By the time the Polish command decided to withdraw to the line of the Vistula, it was too late.

By late 2011, it appeared that the US would largely withdraw from Iraq, a demand that helped make Sadr a popular leader almost immediately following the invasion.

By the wording of the Act, it was made clear that Parliament was not granting the King the title ( thereby suggesting that they had the right to withdraw it later ) but rather it was stated as a recognized fact.

By 1 August 2002 the State of Qatar announced intentions to withdraw from Gulf Air.

By 1962, Congress had passed legislation to deny financial aid grants to Yugoslavia, to withdraw the sale of spare parts for Yugoslav warplanes, and to revoke the country's most favored nation status.

As the enemy ships were closing fast, Cockburn thought it prudent to withdraw, but Nelson overruled him crying " By God, I'll not lose Hardy, back that mizzen topsail!

By the end of November, the North Vietnamese were forced to withdraw from the area and back into their sanctuaries in Cambodia and Laos.

By 14 October with the close of nominations imminent, persistent Conservative associations and candidates had forced National Labour candidates to withdraw in four constituencies and there were only 25 candidates confirmed, of which 10 had Conservative opposition.

By then Cao Cao's troops were exhausted from fighting, and he intended to withdraw.

By the wars end in 1949, the Arab Legion consisted of over 10, 000 men manning a 100-mile front, which then expanded to a 400-mile front following the withdraw of Iraqi forces.

By 12 June, the remaining Free French had been forced to withdraw from Bir Hakeim.