The back-story of the Snitch is the most elaborate of all the Quidditch balls, and its introduction ( so it is described in Quidditch Through the Ages ) came as the direct result of a game played in 1269 in Kent.

Damon Knight, in his introduction to the paper-back edition from the New English Library edition of The Past Through Tomorrow, Vol 1., compares the story to then-current power of Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters Union.

Through friendships she had previously established, she received an introduction to attend Shanghai University for the summer where she also taught some general literacy classes.

Both Palmer and Burn comment on a sinister vein that sometimes breaks out in Bliss's music, in passages such as the Interlude " Through the valley of the shadow of Death " in The Meditations on a Theme of John Blow, and the orchestral introduction to The Beatitudes.

Through the 1990s the proliferation of mobile telecom ( which typically bills every call ), the introduction of customer relationship management and the use of the Internet by the public in all developed nations, brought the situation to a head, and most countries had to implement strong consumer privacy laws, usually over the objections of business.

Through early 1980s Thames experienced a series of local disputes while management deliberately confronted contractual ‘ rackets ’ and pursued the introduction of new technologies based on operational requirements rather than precedent For Thames ’ s management, this was a materialist operations with a clear dimension, to wedded out unscrupulous bargaining and working practices.

In the introduction, Accum compared the newly formed gas utility with the water companies that had been operating in London since the early 18th century: " Through gas, it will be possible to have light in all rooms, as is presently the case with water.

Through their introduction of the elliptical wing-plan form, their designs set officially recognized speed records.

Through the 1990s, water cooling for home PCs slowly gained recognition amongst enthusiasts, but it started to become noticeably more prevalent after the introduction of AMD's hot-running Athlon processor in mid 2000.

Through the introduction of disciplinary curricula, Lernfreiheit has become a rather empty concept.

Through the introduction to " Asian Drama " with the title " The Beam in our Eyes " ( a biblical reference ; cf.

According to the introduction of show-an exhibition organized at the Baltimore Museum of Art-“ Through the simple technology of the slide projector and 35 mm color transparency, artists discovered a tool that enabled the transformation of space through the magnification of projected pictures, texts, and images ”.

Through the halting introduction of HDTV in the mid-1990s into the early 2000s, plasma displays were the primary high-definition display technology.

Through an introduction from the Archbishop of Saigon, he became secretary to the billionaire Lê Phát Đạt, Duke of Long-My, and eventually married his employer's daughter, Marie Lê Thị Binh, and inherited his title.

Through this introduction, the sport rapidly spread across the US as a pickup alternative to ultimate.

Through the introduction of the two ex-members of Vaakevandring, the style became more melodic and atmospheric.

* Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary, Being the Diary of Celia Fiennes by Celia Fiennes ( 1662-1741 ) with an introduction by Emily Wingfield Griffiths ( 1828-1917 ) London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888.

* Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California's Inland Empire ( introduction ) ( 2006 )

Through a long culinary past, the Japanese have developed sophisticated and refined cuisine.

Through regularly scheduled stakeholder meetings, a sophisticated noise-monitoring system, proactive communications with neighboring communities and pilot education, OAK has successfully lessened the impact of airport operations on neighboring communities, in order to improve their quality of life.

Absurdity is used in humor to make people laugh or to make a sophisticated point, for example in Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky ", a poem of nonsense verse, originally featured as a part of his absurdist novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There ( 1872 ); Carroll was a logician and parodied logic using illogic and inverting logical methods.

Through his decisive influence on Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes, among others, Jakobson became a pivotal figure in the adaptation of structural analysis to disciplines beyond linguistics, including anthropology and literary theory ; this generalization of Saussurean methods, known as " structuralism ", became a major post-war intellectual movement in Europe and the United States.

" Through media advertisements, production and distribution of literature, producing music and organizing person-to-person evangelism, the organization asserts that " a specifically Jewish mission " is necessary, saying, " Jewish people tend to dismiss evangelistic methods and materials that are couched in Christian lingo, because they reinforce the assumption that Jesus is for ' them ' not ' us '.

Through the work of the International Institute of Socionics and other schools of Socionics, the issue 4 peer-reviewed journals and the annual International conferences on socionics, Socionics is taught in more then 150 universities in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries, as well as in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, either as a separate course, or, in view of the applicability of the various methods of Socionics Humanities, as part of educational courses on Sociology, Pedagogy, Social Psychology, Management and Psychology of Management, human resource management, Conflictology, social services and Tourism, Computer Science and Programming, Philosophy, Neurology, Journalism, Library Science, Social Work, Didactics and others, including Engineering disciplines.

Through the delivery method of transdermal patches, fentanyl was the most widely used synthetic opioid in clinical practice, with several new delivery methods currently in development, including a sublingual spray for cancer patients.

Through anthropological research methods, McAra explores beyond the level of public discourse on Buddhism to investigate group members ' narratives about a stupa that they completed in 1997, and their changing sense of relationship with the land.

Through utilizing the methods of genetics and molecular biology, molecular genetics discovers the reasons why traits are carried on and how and why some may mutate.

The Qur ' an, hadith, saints, prophets, Muhammad and his descendants are all powerful sources of baraka .< ref > Through these sources, one may achieve baraka by three methods: ( 1 ) visitation of saints and holy shrines charged with baraka, ( 2 ) attachment to the chain of spiritual masters through the khirqa, and ( 3 ) emulation of the inner Sunnah.

Through ex-situ conservation methods they provide protected specimens for breeding and reintroduction into the wild.

Through this and less efficient methods, multiuser programs and chat systems appeared in addition to electronic mail and BBS programs ; some of these were derived from MERITSS programs.

Neron appears and kills Dibny, only to realize too late that the binding spell responds only to Dibny's commands: Through his death Ralph has trapped Faust and Neron in the tower, seemingly for eternity, though his methods of doing so are unknown.

# Through top-down methods that primarily involve governments and the state bureaucracy.

Through a strategy that emphasizes collaboration between the two degree programs-scenography and acting-students are provided with training that combines the skills, knowledge and methods from conceptual visual art with the skills, techniques and methods of classical and contemporary theatre.

Through the use of key concepts and methods in social network analysis, agent-based modeling, theoretical physics, and modern mathematics ( particularly graph theory and fractal geometry ), this method of inquiry brought insights into the dynamics and structure of social systems.

Through the implementation of unusual methods, novel and innovative works, new knowledge and innovative and pioneering ideas begin to emerge.

Through the U. S. Code of Federal Regulations, USDA has created guidelines for specific cooking temperatures and times, freezing temperatures and times, and curing methods for processed pork products to control postharvest human exposure to Trichinella.

Through the augmentation of classical biochemical methods as well as the development of new tools and techniques, chemical biologists have improved accuracy and precision in the study of protein phosphorylation.

Through his magazine, he introduced Dr. Maria Montessori's new teaching methods to North America in 1911.

Through cultural control methods, the flies are regulated through the process of trap crops and man-made traps, such as the Light-emitting diode.

Through inheritance and unprejudiced methods, Jonsson came to control the largest private non-royal wealth Sweden has ever seen.

Through the player's explorations, once the code and all three weapon items were found, the player was to go to the Omega Virus room and then attack the virus using the same attack methods as before.

Through the use of such spatial statistical methods such as geostatistics and principal coordinate analysis of neighbor matrices ( PCNM ), one can identify spatial relationships between organisms and environmental variables at multiple scales.

Through trial and error methods involving the issues still at hand in the Kabuki theatre, the platform eventually became flush with the immobile sections of the stage.