Nor did the vague statements of those who insisted upon his " powerful ambition ... and unusual energy of will " actually account for his revolutionary connections.

Firstly, it was written in English, rather than Latin, which makes it very unusual in Oxford, and is especially revolutionary considering the College's age ; even St Catherine's College, founded in 1965, has a Latin motto (" Nova et Vetera ": " the new and the old ").

Sly Stone, Freddie Stone, Larry Graham, and Rose Stone traded off on various bars of each verse, a style of vocal arrangement unusual and revolutionary at that time in popular music.

It is unusual among revolutionary journals for having been targeted not at Paris or another large city, but to rural audiences.

The musical images are indeed of an immediacy and simplicity unusual even for Shostakovich the epic symphonist, and an additional thread is provided by the nine revolutionary songs which appear during the work.

Musical content, instrumentation as well as tempi are unusual, if not revolutionary in its use for a symphonic work of Beethoven's time.

Others claim it is his political activities that won the young poet the unusual nickname when he led a revolutionary movement in his home town in 932.

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

The buildings flanking the entrance, though very original and remarkable with fantastically shaped roofs with unusual pinnacles, fit in well with the use of the park as pleasure gardens and seem relatively inconspicuous in the landscape when one considers the flamboyance of other buildings designed by Gaudí.

The early use of Chinese astrology was mainly confined to political astrology, the observation of unusual phenomena, identification of portents and the selection of auspicious days for events and decisions.

Moderate use of equalization ( often abbreviated as " EQ ") can be used to " fine-tune " the tone quality of a recording ; extreme use of equalization, such as heavily cutting a certain frequency can create more unusual effects.

The use of exotic hardwoods is not unusual when constructing more expensive bokken.

They are best known for the role they played during the line inspection, in which they employed unusual techniques such as the use of the buttonhook to examine aliens for signs of eye diseases ( particularly, trachoma ) and the use of a chalk mark code.

These results, however, are very sensitive to the accuracy of the twiddle factors used in the FFT ( i. e. the trigonometric function values ), and it is not unusual for incautious FFT implementations to have much worse accuracy, e. g. if they use inaccurate trigonometric recurrence formulas.

The Gloranthan world is characterised by its complex use of mythology, heavily influenced by the universalist approaches of Joseph Campbell and Mircea Eliade, its Howardian ethos, its long and distinctive history as a setting for role-playing games, its community development and expansion, and ( unusual among early American fantasy role-playing games ) its relative lack of Tolkienesque influence.

Notably, Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, and 8 report deflate support but do not actually accept RFC 1950 format, making actual use of deflate highly unusual.

A most unusual use of granite was in the construction of the rails for the Haytor Granite Tramway, Devon, England, in 1820.

Inorganic compounds show rich variety: A: Diborane features Three-center two-electron bond | unusual bonding B: Caesium chloride has an archetypal crystal structure C: Cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer | Fp < sub > 2 </ sub > is an Organometallic chemistry | organometallic complex D: Polydimethylsiloxane | Silicone's uses range from breast implant s to Silly Putty E: Grubbs ' catalyst won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry | 2005 Nobel Prize for Robert H. Grubbs | its discoverer F: Zeolite s find extensive use as molecular sieve s G: Copper ( II ) acetate surprised Theoretical chemistry | theoreticians with its diamagnetism

The use of the word ' psychotic ' is the reason why Anders Behring Breivik would automatically have been given a treatment order by the court, if the ( very unusual ) second psychiatric report had been in concordance with the first report.

A textual argument against the authenticity of the James passage is that the use of the term " Christos " there seems unusual for Josephus.

In contrast, PDWs usually use specialized or proprietary ammunition in unusual calibres.

Therefore, while it was traditional to say that leaders should have virtues, especially prudence, Machiavelli's use of the words virtù and prudenza was unusual for his time, implying a spirited and immodest ambition.

The statue's form of construction was unusual, as the use of chryselephantine was by this time regarded as archaic.

However, studies by the Drug Abuse Warning Network in the 1970s show that media reports of PCP-induced violence are greatly exaggerated and that incidents of violence were unusual and often ( but not always ) limited to individuals with reputations for aggression regardless of drug use.

The adjective quasicrystalline has been already in use but now it came to be applied to any pattern with unusual symmetry.

There are a large number of unusual varieties of piston engines that have various claimed advantages, many of which see little if any current use:

This squat, a large warehouse with several unusual spaces able to be used as theatres or other venues ( thanks to its former use by the Navy ) became a critical site for the development of arts and music in Sydney in the mid to late 1980s, with independent musical and art events being held there regularly.

He was also a writer whose novel Hebdomeros presents a series of dreamscapes with an unusual use of punctuation, syntax, and grammar designed to create an atmosphere and frame around its images.

* phaser-another way of creating an unusual sound ; the signal is split, a portion is filtered with an all-pass filter to produce a phase-shift, and then the unfiltered and filtered signals are mixed.

* phaser-another way of creating an unusual sound ; the signal is split, a portion is filtered with an all-pass filter to produce a phase-shift, and then the unfiltered and filtered signals are mixed.

Cherry County is unusual in being split between two time zones, Mountain Time and Central Time.

The alternation between the instrumentals and songs creates an almost split personality that is one of the most unusual aspects of the record.

The album was split between relatively straightforward pop and more experimental songs, with a strong emphasis on Belew's signature electric tones plus plenty of percussion and an unusual approach to acoustic production.

Today the smaller family Sylviidae includes the typical warblers in the genus Sylvia, the parrotbills of Asia ( formerly a separate family Paradoxornithidae ), a number of babblers formerly placed within the family Timaliidae ( which is itself currently being split ) and the Wrentit, an unusual North American bird that has been a longstanding taxonomic mystery.

It is unusual because in humans it contains 10 Se-Cys residues, which are split into two domains, a longer N-terminal domain that contains 1 Se-Cys, and a shorter C-terminal domain that contains 9 Se-Cys.

That decision accounts for the unusual southeastern protrusion of the City of Brussels and for Ixelles being split in two separate parts.

It used a longitudinal engine placement for its V8, coupled with an unusual " split " transmission, which turned the engine power 180 degrees.

Their unusual name is variously stated to come from the town's Mechanics Institute or most likely when a group of craftsmen or mechanics split from an earlier Forres team to form their own club.

This group of parrots is unusual, retaining more primitive features lost in most other parrots, because it split off from the rest around 100 million years ago.

The departure of these groups also meant a loss of one of the ONF's main sources of revenue and the split proved fairly divisive with B & H supporters dubbing the ONF the " Nutty Fairy Party " due to their unusual ideas and rumours of homosexuality within the leadership.

The answers to their questions appear in screen segments in the corners of the screen, marking an unusual use of split screen to join narrative.

One way to classify tasks is to split them into routine ( normal, usual ) and nonroutine ( creative, unusual, undefined ).

The film also uses unusual point of view shots and split screen effects to show two events happening simultaneously.

The area code splits in the Twin Cities are unusual because they split along municipal, rather than central office, boundaries.

The area code splits in the Twin Cities are unusual because they split along municipal, rather than central office, boundaries.

The area code splits in the Twin Cities are unusual because they split along municipal, rather than central office, boundaries.

As well as having standard Survival, Two Player and Team Battle modes, Fighters Megamix uses an unusual style of 1 player play, instead of standard Arcade Mode, the 1 player mode is split into nine subsections:

However, the very earliest Explorers made between 1957 and spring 1958 featured an unusual " split "- shaped head with the tuners placed in a standard 3 + 3 arrangement, carried over from the Explorer prototype ( better known as the Futura ).

That decision accounts for the unusual shape of today's City of Brussels and for Ixelles being split in two separate parts.

* Photo of an unusual at-grade crossing in Inglewood as a result of a split from a one-time Pacific Electric spur

First released in 1987, they are distinguished by their unusual transformation ability to split their single robot form into two separate vehicles.