0 as a result of something: --
She got what she wanted by dint of pleading and threatening.
1 a small hollow mark in the surface of something, caused by pressure or by being hit --
2 If something is done by dint of something else, it is done as a result of that thing: --
I have managed to obtain a copy by dint of ingenuity, but it is not possible to ask questions and read at the same time.
On the opposite side we have the dint of headstrong resolution and here we have the cairn sagacity.
The more precious it becomes by dint of the effort put into it, the less dispensable it turns out to be.
No one sits here by dint of democracy.
They devolved only by dint of council tax increases.
Is it not for the area health authority and the region, by dint of better housekeeping, to provide the services that are adequate at present?
Having got to the local appeal tribunal, and by dint of the good efforts of his representative, the man might well succeed.
By dint of the failure of the now virtually defunct traditional conventional democratic processes, they are driven to take direct action.
