Having grown up in an age in which Latin polyphony was largely confined to liturgical items for the Sarum rite, he assimilated and mastered the Continental motet form of his day, employing a highly personal synthesis of English and continental models.

Having mastered the techniques of lithography, Daumier began his artistic career by producing plates for music publishers, and illustrations for advertisements.

Having never visited China or mastered the language, he based his essay on the travelogues of the Jesuit missionaries.

Having mastered the language himself, Churchward found out that they originated from " the place where first appeared — Mu.

Having received his earliest training in German, he received his later education in French and thus mastered both languages early in life.

Having been retrieved by scientists who mastered control over time, she ended up travelling to the past and kidnapped her former friends to scatter them throughout time.

Having mastered his trade repairing chimneys, Dibnah became aware of the demand for a cost-effective method of demolishing them.

Having mastered the art of putting new words to a traditional song and his own words to a traditional tune, he wrote a ballad-opera: The Transports in 1973 and it took him 4 years to find a company willing to produce it in 1977.

Having mastered her, he finds that Puna, king of Vavau, is his rival.

Having acquainted himself with Japan and quickly mastered a language, Sergius showed himself a committed spokesmen for the Orthodox Christian faithful of Japan's recent acquisitions in Southern Sakhalin ( Japan had acquired Southern Sakhalin, or Karafuto in Japanese, as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 ); and he secured the return of confiscated Church property to the faithful.

; # 106 — Safe as Houses: Having mastered observation and surveillance skills, the recruits are now faced with their first 36-hour mission.

Having mastered summoning and black magic at the expense of white magic, she saves Cecil from Golbez's Shadow Dragon in the Dwarven Castle's Crystal room and rejoins the party.

Having mastered the art of stage acting, Volkov often deviated from esthetic canons of classicism and chose not to follow the universally accepted rules of solemn recitation.

Having mastered the Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew languages, he was assigned to the Russian mission in Constantinople, which occupation gave him ample opportunities to travel in Syria, Nubia, and Egypt.

Having seized the Merv ( now Mary ) Oasis by 1884, Russian forces were directly adjacent to Afghanistan.

Having been an autonomous grand duchy within the Russian Empire since 1809, Finland declared independence during the Soviet revolution of Russia in 1917.

Having led his army of 8, 000 on a forced march from Denmark to Estonia, Charles XII routs the huge Russian army at Narva.

Having a distrust of Russian nobles, Anna kept them from powerful positions, instead giving those to Baltic Germans.

Having experienced the trauma of the Decembrist Revolt on the very first day of his reign, Nicholas I was determined to restrain Russian society.

Having won the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks disbanded the tsarist police forces and formed all-proletarian Workers ' and Peasants ' Militsiya under NKVD of the Russian SFSR.

Having obtained a promotion on his retirement to the level of first captain, Bering kept this rank when he decided to rejoin the Russian navy later the same year.

Having helped put her husband's principality on a sound financial footing, she would devote her energies to making Monaco one of Europe's great cultural centers with its opera, theater, and the ballet under the direction of the famed Russian impresario, Serge Diaghilev.

Having studied under Runeberg he belonged to Liberal, anti-tsarist circles that agitated for Finland's liberation from Russia by the Swedes during the Crimean War ; and an unguarded speech at a convivial entertainment in 1855 drew the attention of the Imperial Russian authorities to his political views, and led to a dismissal from the university.

Having re-organized his troops, he engaged Russian forces which ultimately stopped a planned attack on the Swedish capital, Stockholm.

Having already signed a five-year contract with the Russian club he was banned from football for four months by the Russian Professional Football League ( RPFL ).

Having wintered in Unalaska, Izmaylov visited Saint Paul Island, where he discovered the crew of a Russian ship that had been missing since 1791.

Having fallen into Russian hands the fortress functioned only for some weeks, and very soon the tsar founded the fortress and city of Saint Petersburg near the site.

Having divided the Blue and White Hordes into the Golden Horde in 1382 Tokhtamysh led a successful campaign against Russia as a punishment for the Kulikovo defeat-setting back, though not ending, the Russian aspiration to free themselves of Mongol rule.

Having been promoted to commander, Wrangel led the Russian world voyage on the ship Krotky in 1825 – 1827.

Having established his authority on Kodiak Island, Shelekhov founded the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska on the island's Three Saints Bay ( Unalaska had existed long before, but it was never considered the permanent base for Russians until Shelekhov ’ s time ).

Having opposed Yeltsin's secessionist policies during his tenure as Soviet Premier, he was removed from his post as Russian SFSR Premier and succeeded in his post by acting Premier Oleg Lobov.

Having witnessed the death of a talented Russian pilot Lev Matsivich and been shocked by it, he became obsessed with the idea of constructing a parachute, to which he devoted several years of his life as well as all his personal savings.

Having never played in the Soviet Top League, the football club joined the Russian First Division in 1992 and fell to the Russian Second Division in 1994.

Having won 12 Soviet championships ( second only to Dynamo Kyiv ) and 9 of 19 Russian championships they are one of the country's most successful clubs.

Having witnessed first-hand on the Russian steppe the devastating effectiveness of German Blitzkrieg tactics, Lt. General Zhukov turned the carpet-bombing of the city to his advantage.

Having said that, the literary sources of Priscus and Jordanes preserve only a few names, and three words, of the language of the Huns, which have been studied for more than a century and a half.

Not only did men billeted in Greek areas have opportunity to learn sufficient Greek for the purpose of everyday conversation, but they were also able to see plays in the foreign tongue .” Having an audience with knowledge of the Greek language, whether limited or more expanded, allowed Plautus more freedom to use Greek references and words.

Having discovered the entrance, Solomon found an idol inside that had in its mouth a silver tablet saying in Greek ( a language not thought by modern scholars to have existed 1000 years before the time of Solomon ) that the statue was of Shaddad, the son of ' Ad, and that it had reigned over a million cities, rode on a million horses, had under it a million vassals and slew a million warriors, yet it could not resist the angel of death.

Having learned their language and customs, Williams gave up the idea of being a missionary and never baptized a single Indian.

Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from the 4th to the 8th centuries, the classical language of Edessa, preserved in a large body of Syriac literature.

Having created these constructs, the two philologists found they could not entirely justify them ; apparently, in the worst implications of their views, there was no classical Latin by the ancient definition at all and some of the very best writing of any period in world history was a stilted and degenerate unnatural language.

Having taken up his residence at Brussels, in 1818 Jacotot was nominated teacher of the French language at the University of Louvain, where he systematized the educational principles which he had already practised with success in France.

Having made a special study of Egyptology, he became in 1865 Dozent in Egyptian language and antiquities at Jena, becoming professor in 1868.

Having received tempting offers to act in English at the Princess's Theatre, London, he made a diligent study of the English language, and appeared there on 27 October 1860 in an English version of Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas.

Having something clean and simple specifically targeted at the problem can be better solution than throwing an overpowered language at it.

Having no work visa, she supported herself by, among other things, teaching English as a second language.

Having authored fifteen English language books on topics related to Indian politics and communalism, Elst is one of the western writers ( along with François Gautier ) to actively defend the Hindutva ideology.

Having an excellent memory, and understanding quickly the goals of Dumézil and the other linguists who came to visit him, he was the primary source of not only the Ubykh language, but also of the mythology, culture and customs of the Ubykh people.

Having successfully created a subgenre of Philippine Rock they called Bisrock, the Visayans by far have the biggest collection of modern music in their native language, with great contributions from Visayan bands Phylum, and Missing Filemon.

Having grown up trilingually, Artmann had an interest in language from an early age on ; in 1947, his first publications appeared on radio and in the newspaper Neue Wege.

Having the same rhythm, the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was then used as the call-sign by the BBC in its foreign language programmes to occupied Europe for the rest of the war.

Having the programming language itself as a first-class data type ( as in Lisp, Forth or Rebol ) is also very useful.

Having trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he started off in Welsh language film productions, then came to international attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the film Titanic ( 1997 ), and as Lt. John Beales in Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ).

Having class among other students learning English as a second language relieves the pressure of making mistakes when speaking in class or to peers.

Having a university education meant that Hubmaier would have been familiar with Latin, the language in which all official church communication was at that time conducted.

Having been developed by Muslim rulers of India, Urdu was used as a secondary language to Persian, the official language of the Mughal court.