Sentence examples for by dint of some from inspiring English sources

I'd moved there despite never having studied Spanish, assuming that I'd immerse myself in the Catalan culture and by dint of some glorious osmosis, absorb a new language.

His team managed to remove a clause from the party platform calling for the abolition of the Department of Education only by dint of some vigorous arm-twisting on the eve of the Philadelphia convention.

Undismayed, and by dint of some study of archaeological work in the general area and several books on Celtic mythology, I narrowed the location down to the valley road between Athlone and Mullingar in Westmeath.

I had triumphed over others by dint of some unknowable charm_._ Now I was coming to realize that a lot of people baffled this guy, and that I would be next to become incomprehensible and unattractive.

Baptiste is far from the finished article, but the show just about transcends its formula by dint of some fresh perspectives and an appealing personality: unassuming, but a little bit barbed; low-octane, but with flashes of flamboyance.

Let's start with the overlooked, the likes of Luke Donald who by dint of some cruel alchemy will tee it up on Thursday as perhaps the most underrated world No1 ever.

By dint of repetition, some misconceptions concerning aid have come to be accepted as established fact to the point that it's become politically correct to bash foreign aid and the institutions channeling it.

The first myth exonerates by dint of lionizing some men, and placing them beyond reproach and above suspicion.

He thinks, that is, that organisms have final causes, but that they did not come to have them by dint of the designing activities of some intentional agent or other.

In a bear market a raw average of performances is going to look good (in comparison with an S&P 500 figure going back 12 months) just by dint of the fact that some of the recommended stocks had only a few months in which to fall.

Given a choice, Glass opts for the theatre of "distance," one that harmonizes with John Cage's conceptual dictum that audience members complete the performance of some music by dint of paying attention.