`` By fall they'll be back in school '', I'd say, trying to sound encouraging.

Sudanese surgeon Nahid Toubia — president of RAINBO ( Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women ) — told the BBC in 2002 that campaigning against FGM involved trying to change women's consciousness: " By allowing your genitals to be removed is perceived that you are heightened to another level of pure motherhood — a motherhood not tainted by sexuality and that is why the woman gives it away to become the matron, respected by everyone.

By the first days of January, Emperor Menelik, accompanied by his Queen Taytu Betul, had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged the Italians for 15 days ( 6 – 21 January 1896 ), trying in vain to storm the fort on several occasions, until the Italians surrendered with permission from the Italian Headquarters.

By about 1900 one finds managers trying to place their theories on what they regarded as a thoroughly scientific basis ( see scientism for perceived limitations of this belief ).

By coming down solidly on the side of Spanish interests, in part because Gregory XIV was elected due to the influence of the Spanish cardinals, the recent papal policy of trying to maintain a balance between Spain and France was abandoned.

By age two, Wayne was trying to score goals against Mary using a souvenir stick.

By trying to carry an inductive argument backward in time based on a fact known only by Thursday the prisoner may be making an error.

By confronting the issue and Carolyn's " superficial investments in others ", Lester is trying to " regain a voice in a home that respects the voices of mother and daughter ".

By questioning the fundamental norms and premises of the dominant discourses, and trying to modify them, he attempted to democratize the university scene and to politicize it.

By late 1948 the CPC eventually captured the northern cities of Shenyang and Changchun and seized control of the Northeast after struggling through numerous set-backs while trying to take the cities, with the decisive Liaoshen Campaign.

By 1854, Margaret had spent 14 years trying to convert Sam to the Baptist denomination.

By then, however, vom Rath's assassination had already had the most dire consequences for the people Grynszpan had apparently been trying to help — the German Jews.

By August a report had reached Emma's daughter, Gunnhild, at the German court that her " unhappy and unjust step-mother " ( i. e. Ælfgifu ) was working to deprive Gunnhild's brother, Harthacnut, of the kingdom by holding great feasts, and trying by argument and gifts to persuade the leading nobles to give their fealty to Harold.

By early 1971, though, ABC was trying to cut costs in the face of harsh new economic realities including a national economic recession, a sharp dip in advertising revenue following the U. S. government's recent ban on cigarette commercials, and a record-high number of competing soap operas — which were more expensive to produce than game or talk shows — on the networks ' daytime schedules.

By the mid-1960s, bands on both sides of the Atlantic were trying to sound like Booker T. & the M. G.

By trying the killer move before other moves, a game playing program can often produce an early cutoff, saving itself the effort of considering or even generating all legal moves from a position.

By 1934, Schlesinger was in a bit of a crisis trying to find a well-known cartoon character.

By 1900, Schenker was actively trying to promote his musical compositions as evidenced by correspondence with Ignaz Brüll, Karl Goldmark, Eugen d ' Albert and Ferruccio Busoni.

By trying to negotiate a peace between such well known daimyo as Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin, Shimazu Takahisa, Ōtomo Yoshishige, Mōri Motonari, and Amago Haruhisa, the shogun's authority was again recognized by various daimyo.

By assuming what it is trying to prove, that point undermines the entire argument.

By noon Schmettau's center was broken and forced back over the Lissbach Stream, Blucher's cavalry was blown, and Wartensleben was trying to reposition his troops.

By trying to develop an idea of good and bad taste, he also in turn generated philosophical debate around this new meaning of aesthetics.

By trying to make the constitution do everything that needs doing from age to age, we shall have caused it to do nothing at all.

By the year 1858, London gave up all attempts to influence the currency situation in Canada, and, by the 1860s, it came to the same realisation in Hong Kong: that there was no point in trying to displace an already existing currency system.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

By both standards Thomas had the right to be proud.

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 leaving me everything he wouldn't be doing me a favor, my father told him, and he didn't want to see his daughter involved in a lawsuit.

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

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

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

By recognizing and helping Juniors get interested in the dog world, all will be helping to create future dog owners.

By using the appropriate version any one of these factors can be determined for any combination of the other three.

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

By the use of various weights, data for a force-rate of shear graph can be obtained.

By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

By means of geographical isolation and high fertility rates, inbreeding can be fostered and the pattern of isolation from the greater society maintained.

By themselves they may not be able to save the life on this planet, but without them there would be very little left worth saving.

By studying high speed movies made of this type of failure, the sequence of relationships as schematically illustrated in Fig. 9 could be observed.

By varying the formula, this curve may be moved forward or backward along the coordinates to produce any desired compression strength / density ratio.

By this same combination of the will and the imagination, each one of us can learn to portray permanently the kind of character we would like to be.

By tradition, a red wine should be served at approximately room temperature -- if anything a little cooler -- and be aged enough for the tannin and acids to have worked out and the sediment have settled well.

I grinned at him, handed him a couple of dollars and said, `` By the time you get the parking charge figured up, there should be a cigar in it for you ''.

By spring it would be a skeleton.

By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.