Computer music systems and approaches are now ubiquitous, and so firmly embedded in the process of creating music that we hardly give them a second thought: computer-based synthesizers, digital mixers, and effects units have become so commonplace that use of digital rather than analog technology to create and record music is the norm, rather than the exception.

The European Court of Human Rights did not rule upon the right to life until 1995, when in McCann v. United Kingdom it ruled that the exception contained in the second paragraph do not constitute situations when it is permitted to kill, but situations where it is permitted to use force which might result in the deprivation of life.

In the lists of the Apostles John has the second place ( Acts 1: 13 ), the third (), and the fourth (; ), yet always after James with the exception of a few passages (; 9: 28 in the Greek text ; Acts 1: 13 ).

These areas were mainly agricultural, with the exception of Upper Silesia which was the second largest centre of German heavy industry.

The second five albums of Queen's back catalogue were released worldwide on 27 June, with the exception of the US and Canada ( 27 September ).

Today the composer ( past or present ) of the musical score to an opera or operetta is usually given top billing for the completed work, and the writer of the lyrics relegated to second place or a mere footnote, a notable exception being Gertrude Stein, who received top billing for Four Saints in Three Acts.

His political goals were twofold ; first – to strengthen the Polish border on the Noteć river line, second – to subjugate Pomerania with Polish political overlordship but without actually incorporating it into the country with the exception of Gdansk Pomerania and a southern belt north of river Noteć which were to be absorbed by Poland.

Philology is an exception: while its meaning is closer to the first sense, the etymology of the word is similar to the second sense.

For Season Six, because the teaser music was changed to a shorter, self-contained composition, these errors do not occur, with the exception of the teaser of 33B shown at the end of 32B ( available on iTunes ), where the teaser was accidentally cut by a fraction of a second.

He also occasionally drinks to excess and has a gambling problem, which leads to the second gag: every time Parker tries to profit from gambling on events he recalls from the future, he picks the losing side ( the lone exception to this is when he gambles to get a bankroll for a charitable purpose ).

first car's design with the steel bodywork of the second one ( with one exception –

This was contrary to the second great Bremen shipyard Bremer Vulkan, which with exception of the both world wars only produced civilian ships and started warship-building except war-times first in the early 1980th.

The introduction to the whole work, treating of the value of philosophy and of philosophical sects, is lost, with the exception of the concluding portion ; the second book is little more than a fragment, and the third and fourth have been amalgamated by altering the original sections.

The exception to this is the C natural in the second octave, which cannot be cross-fingered or half-holed, and requires the key.

Buechner's work has been praised highly by many reviewers of books, with the distinct exception of his second novel, The Season ’ s Difference, which was universally panned by critics and remains his biggest commercial flop.

The second exception is " market participation exception ".

The Masters is the first acknowledged major golf championship of the year and since 1940 has been played so that the final round is always played on the second Sunday of April with the exception of 1979 when Fuzzy Zoeller won on the third Sunday in April.

Also according to producer Bruce Timm, they wanted to use Supergirl early in the series but the producers put it off until late in the second season with the only exception was that she could not come from Krypton.

The second generation dropped the manual transmission and the four-cylinder engine, resulting in all second generation vehicles ( with the exception of the Taurus SHO ) with automatic transmissions and V6 engines.

An example of an exception is the United States, whose armed forces distinguish their lieutenant ranks with one silver bar for first lieutenant and one gold ( brass ) bar for second lieutenant.

Every time he is thrown out of the house, he is shown wearing the same shirt although he does not always wear it when he is thrown out ( the producers never shot a second sequence with Jazz being thrown out of the house, only adjusting the original scene for time purposes ; an exception is in the episode " Community Action ", where Jazz was thrown out along with a lifesize cardboard cut-out of Bill Cosby, complete with a blooper showing Jeff Townes reshooting his flying off the house several times ).

The law was struck down, legalizing abortion for any woman for any reason, up through the first trimester, with possible restrictions for maternal health in the second ( the midpoint of which is the approximate time of fetal viability ), and possibly illegal in the third with exception for the mother's health, which the court defined broadly in Doe v. Bolton.

With the exception of a brief quartet period between 1978 and 1979, Weather Report's instrumentation always included both a traditional trap set drummer and a second percussionist.

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.

He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.

The idea here is one of discharge but this must stand in opposition to a second view, Plato's notion of the arousal of emotion.

There is a second feature of the influences of literature, good literature, on emotional life which may have some special value for our time.

Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.

And the second requirement for convincing people without their knowledge is artistic talent to prepare the words and pictures which persuade by using the principles which the scientists have discovered.

Even to be `` from hope and fear set free '' is at least better than to have lost the first without having got rid of the second.

Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

The second mistake is Tibet.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

He is interested in public opinion for two reasons: first, because it is important in itself, and, second, because he knows that the American public cares about a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.

The second capability is represented by our deployed ground, naval, and air forces in essential forward areas, together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement.

A second fundamental principle is that involved particularly in the present proceeding -- the difference between nighttime and daytime propagation conditions with respect to the standard broadcast frequencies.

A second and also good practice is to shear off the tops, leaving an inch high stub with just a leaf or two on each branch.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.