Through a combination of poor judgment, lack of oversight by the bank's management and regulators, and unfortunate events like the Kobe earthquake, Leeson incurred a US $ 1. 3 billion loss that bankrupted the centuries-old institution.

Through the posit of certain indeterminate objects ( formal-ontological categories ) as well as any combination of mathematical axioms, mathematicians can explore the apodeictic connections between them, as long as consistency is preserved.

Through a combination of cultural diffusion and migration of peoples, the Neolithic traditions spread west and northwards to reach northwestern Europe by around 4500 BC.

Through a combination of circumstances, Ryan becomes responsible for shepherding the submarine — and Ramius — to safety from the pursuing Soviet fleet.

Through the Configuration screen, the player can change the Battle Style from Normal to Custom, which allows two players to control any combination of characters during battle.

Through a combination of specific deadlines for liberalisation and entry mechanisms for new market players, Portugal ’ s telecoms scene was successfully opened up to competition.

Through a combination of experiment and theoretical positioning, the book introduces a method that Wolfram argues is the most realistic way to make scientific progress with computational systems, casting A New Kind of Science as a " kind " of science, and allows its principles to be potentially applicable in a wide range of fields, like living organisms, ecology, society and traffic.

Through the 90s and the first few years of the 21st century, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-LK Advani combination steered the BJP to heights it had never before witnessed.

Through a combination of erosion of the weaker surrounding rock, and sea level rise following the last ice age, the Farnes were left as islands.

Through a combination of scrimping, saving, and stealing, Frank eventually does get enough money to travel to America.

Through a combination of the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the stagnation of the Japanese retail market, however, the group declared bankruptcy with 161 billion yen of debts.

Through the 90s and the first few years of the 21st century, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-LK Advani combination steered the BJP to heights it had never before witnessed.

Through a combination of the 64 kB window available, and the selection of one of the four planes ( an effective extra two bits of address space ), this allows the manipulation of the total 256 kB video memory.

Through the years Adams ' children offered speculation ranging from murder to accidental death, the latter perhaps caused by Roeder while trying to calm the actor's nerves with an unintentionally lethal combination of alcohol and prescription drugs ( although the autopsy found no alcohol in Adams ' blood ).

Through the 1980s Ellard began to take advantage of technological developments such as the music sequencer in combination with looping sounds before sampling arose.

Through the combination of selling off its aircraft engine division and obtaining financing with the help of Herbert Quandt, BMW was able to survive.

Through the recording of the solo material, Kuwata recognized Kobayashi's abundant and practical ability, and decided to continue this strong combination for his career.

Through some clever political moves by the Liberal members of the committee, it beat out John Diefenbaker's flag ( a combination of fleurs-de-lis, a maple leaf and the Union Flag ), as well as the Pearson Pennant ( three red leaves conjoined on a stem set against a white background with blue bars on either side ).

Through a combination of happy circumstances Gervaise is able to raise enough money to open her own laundry, and the couple's happiness appears to be complete with the birth of a daughter, Anna, nicknamed Nana ( the protagonist of Zola's later novel of the same title ).

Through a combination of poor crime scene management and apparent corruption, much physical evidence was immediately lost, and the rest vanished over the years ( although copies of a few documents from the police files were made public in 2007 ).

Through a combination of interviewing employees, circulating questionnaires, observations and existing documentation, the analyst comes to full understanding of the system as it is at the start of the project.

Through the combination of a leather wad and tight grooves on the inside of the barrel ( rifling ), this weapon was far more accurate, though slower to load.

Through a combination of innovative technology, and no-holds-barred sales tactics, PTC quickly became a major force in the CAD industry.

Through a combination of transfer credits and study in the United States students may receive complementary degrees from their home university and TC3.

Through the evolution of SAMs, improvements were also being made to anti-aircraft artillery, but the missiles pushed them into ever shorter-range roles.

Through the 1970s and 80s he developed a new artillery piece that dramatically outperformed all others.

Through effective military organizations that integrated cavalry, chariots, archery, shields, artillery ( cannons carried on the back of camels ), and amphibious troops for combats on the land and water, the Xia army maintained a powerful stance in opposition to the Song, Liao ( 916-1125 ), and Jin ( 1115 – 1234 ) empires to its east, the last of which was founded by the Jurchens, who were the predecessors of the Manchus to found the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1912 ) later.

Through a combination of retreating his forces into the defensive works, and then using his long-range heavy artillery, Milroy felt that he could hold out for weeks ( if not months ) against any force that may be thrown against him.

Through thorough clinical evaluation, via physical findings, detailed patient history, and advanced imaging techniques, such as angiogram, computerized tomography ( CT scan ), magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ), or more rarely transillumination ( shining of bright light through the skull ) after birth are the most accurate diagnostic techniques.

Through such means, we hope to be able to obtain accurate and detailed intelligence reports.

" Through this technique, SIM will be able to output accurate masses for representative examples for nearly every star type, including brown dwarfs, hot white dwarfs, red giant stars, and elusive black holes.

Through no fault of the organizers – this was apparently an accurate reflection of the conference submissions.

Through the end of the 2011 NFL season, he was the most accurate field goal kicker in NFL history with an 86. 5 completion percentage.

Through advanced Digital Signal Processing, we are able to apply dispersion correction algorithms which analyze the signals and report an accurate touch.

Through annual scientific meetings, regional postgraduate training courses and research grants, the ACG provides its members with the most accurate and up-to-date scientific information on digestive health and the etiology, symptomatology and treatment of GI disorders.

Through the development of new approaches in computer science, coupled with an increased dataset of proteins of known localization, computational tools can now provide fast and accurate localization predictions for many organisms.

Through the efforts of SAAMI's shooting development program these shooting activities, and many others, including assists in the development of public and privately financed shooting parks, trap and skeet leagues, rifle and pistol marksmanship programs have been promoted, to mention only a few.

Time reported: " Through the darkness, from the West and south … intruders boldly sped … at least six of them … they opened fire on the destroyers with automatic weapons, this time from as close as 2, 000 yards.

* Walton comes under fire in Norman Maclean's short story A River Runs Through It, later filmed under the same name.

Ewing and Lundstrom write, " Through Stafford and other accounts based largely on the action reports, Butch has wrongly become known as one of America's most famous " friendly fire " casualties.

* In the film Star Trek Generations, the villain Tolian Soran quotes from Schwartz's poem, “ Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day ”, telling Captain Jean-Luc Picard, “ They say time is the fire in which we burn .” Playwright Philip Ridley uses the same line as one of the epigraphs for his 2012 play Shivered.

Shortly after her second adventure, Through the Looking-Glass, Alice's house is burnt down by an accidental fire, killing her family and leaving her as the only survivor.

Through gun and mortar fire, the men of the 2nd Regiment managed to set up machine guns and return fire, surprising and overwhelming the Germans.

Through Sam as his proxy, Salieri says he is impressed with Tommy's grace under fire and that he is indebted to Tommy for doing so ; at some future time Tommy may come back to Salieri for help.

Through repeated simulations and practice, practitioners are able to fire at their attacker's position, while moving out of their attacker's most likely return fire trajectory and essentially dispatching their enemy while dodging their enemies ' bullets.

Through the operation to clone Adam, Dr. Wells had secretly mixed Adam's DNA with that of Zachary ( as the fire damaged Zachary's DNA to where it could not be cloned without the assistance of other living cells ) with the hope of bringing his own son back to life, rather than Adam's, and then stealing him.

Through fire testing of these models, he eventually convinced the Dock Board Trustees of the benefits of his iron framed construction method.

Through the guide, visitors learned about the different advantages and features of the house including the security and fire systems.

Through the internal process of circulating the fire and water energies, the practitioner improves the condition of the body and cultivates spirit.

Through no fault of his own, he lost the entire investment, in the St. Louis wharf fire.

Through staging a fire in the jail that allowed one of the bomb-briefcase men to escape, Khan and his men managed to track down and capture Hilal, but they are distraught to hear that Altaaf and the other terrorists have left for to launch the missiles, something which neither the police nor the army can take action, as they still don't have any idea or time to find out where the missiles will be launched.

Through management techniques, such as prescribed burns, the Environmental Initiative is reintroducing a natural fire schedule to the Pine Flatwoods and Scrub communities throughout campus.

Through the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost, the heart and desires are cleansed and purified.

Through the use of the newly invented " Greek fire ", the Byzantine navy's best-known and feared secret weapon, Constantinople was saved from several sieges and numerous naval engagements were won for the Byzantines.

The Conservatory, as it appeared in 1879, before its dome was replaced following the 1883 fire. Through its life, the Conservatory of Flowers has undergone several repair campaigns.