Having garnered inspiration from the monochromatic prints of Edgar Degas featured in a 1994 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the motifs of his Landscapes in the Chinese Style series are formed with simulated Benday dots and block contours, rendered in hard, vivid color, with all traces of the hand removed.

Having recently arrived and being thrown into action, the 918th has suffered heavy losses, gaining the reputation as a " hard luck group " suffering from poor morale.

Having learned a hard lesson from focusing solely on wheat farming in South Dakota, the Wilders ' Rocky Ridge Farm became a diversified poultry and dairy farm, with an abundant apple orchard.

Having accomplished the major part of his mission, destruction of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, Crook turned his men north and after another hard march, reached the Union base at Meadow Bluff, West Virginia.

Having experienced some level of success with their previous record, You Come Before You, a long and hard touring cycle left certain members of the band disenchanted.

Having suffered over 14, 000 casualties in his own army, losses hard to replace for the small Prussia, Frederick decided not to assault the city walls of Prague.

Having very little water accessible to each section makes it very hard to get enough water for a day per household.

Having been ordained he was appointed to the parish of Tredrez in 1285 and eight years later to Louannec, where he died of natural causes after a life of hard work and repeated fasting.

Having gone so long without playing, he initially found it hard to find his best form.

Having been hit hard by the split from the General Strike the British Fascists attempted to move gradually towards a more defined fascism, starting in 1927 by adopting a blue shirt and beret uniform in the style of similar movements in Europe.

Having made few friends and quite a number of enemies while at university, he found it hard to get a proper medical position in the Netherlands and so decided to sign up as a ship's surgeon for a Dutch East Indies shipping company.

Having learned the hard way about the destructive power of French artillery, Wellesley soon pulled his redcoats back into cover.

Having a natural border is strategically very useful, as invading armies can have a hard time crossing such a border.

Having fallen on hard times, Armadillo proceeded to join the Constrictor and Jack O ' Lantern in robbing an armored car.

* Pungent: Having hard, sharp points.

* Having a hard time translating ideas to writing, sometimes using the wrong words altogether

Having worked hard to get Judy her audition with such a prestigious director, he quickly and angrily drops her from his roster of clients.

Having been hit hard by recession in the late 2000s, which forced the closure of over 40 retail businesses in the area, the Takapuna centre is trying to establish itself as a fashionable upmarket shopping destination, and in one month of 2009 alone saw the opening of 19 new retail outlets, most in a new department store.

Having successfully found a new route back to their island home of Metru Nui, Vakama -- now driven, and incredibly hard on both himself and others -- led the others in the advance back to the ruined city.

Having HESbal allowed numerous creative follow-on products, such as HEScom, software and a user port cable that allowed VIC20 programs to be saved to a PET hard disk ( since the first VIC20 didn't have a hard disk ).

Having released several successful singles which featured a fusion of progressive / hard rock and Balkan traditional music, YU grupa released their first album, YU grupa, in 1973, which became one of the best selling Yugoslav rock albums of the 1970s.

Having established himself as the premier defensive backcourt player, Bowen's effective, but hard nosed style of play came under discussion.

Having worked so hard to rehabilitate and strengthen the treasury of Satsuma, Zusho did not encourage Nariakira ’ s ambitious and costly program for a military build-up.

Having known all of the economic problems confronting the Kingdom and that Thailand had used the multiple currency basket peg exchange rate, the foreign speculators ( including the Hedge Funds ) were certain that the Thai Government would soon have to devalue the Baht.

Having largely kept itself above the fray throughout 1997 – 1998 there was heavy speculation in the Western press that China would soon be forced to devalue its currency to protect the competitiveness of its exports vis-a-vis those of the ASEAN nations, whose exports became cheaper relative to China's.

Having lost Poland as a buffer, Russia now had to share borders with both Prussia and Austria.

Having lost Poland as a buffer, Russia now had to share borders with both Prussia and Austria.

Having completed our camera work, we started our climb.

Having secured his pension, Dürer finally returned home in July 1521, having caught an undetermined illness — perhaps malaria — which afflicted him for the rest of his life, and greatly reduced his rate of work.

Having worked with many Hollywood stars, Cronenberg says that he did not get to make a film with an actor he wanted to work with for a long time, Burt Reynolds.

Having left Paris on September 6, 1844, Engels returned to his home in Barmen, Germany, to work on his The Condition of the English Working Class, which was published in late May 1845.

Having made several visits to his Irish estates beginning in 1647, Robert moved to Ireland in 1652 but became frustrated at his inability to make progress in his chemical work.

Having spent time with every contestant came back to work in her favor as a trivia contest about the contestants gave her the immunity win and placed a target squarely on Kathy.

Having originated many roles in musicals she is also strongly identified with her second husband, director – choreographer Bob Fosse, remembered as the dancer – collaborator – muse for whom he choreographed much of his work and as the guardian of his legacy after his death.

Having to give up his studies to work was the first of many setbacks he would often refer to later in life.

" Having been on the WPA made it harder for alumni to get a job because employers said they had " formed poor work habits " on the WPA.

Having little interest in university studies, he left school in 1891 and began work as a reporter and writer.

Having returned to Myer, Kennett became impatient with his work, and so with Ian Fegan and Eran Nicols, he formed his own advertising company ( KNF ) in June 1971.

Having entered the Police Academy by age 24, Wiggum managed to work around his many shortcomings by providing superiors with wonderful back rubs using the handle of his gun, and finally become a full fledged officer and by 32, he had managed to work his way up to the position of Police Chief of Springfield.

Having discovered writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Robert Aickman, he became interested in expanding the stylistic possibilities of his work.

Having passed his law, Tiberius was lauded as a founding hero not just of a single city or race, but as the founding hero of all the Italians, who had come to endure immense poverty and deprivation, denied of their rightful land because of their military services and having lost work because of the influx of slaves, who were loyal to no man while citizens were loyal to the state.

Having completed work on Ulysses, Joyce was so exhausted that he did not write a line of prose for a year.

Having been introduced to Parks at a garden party at Terry Melcher's home, Wilson liked Parks ' " visionary eloquence " and began work with him in the fall of 1966.

Having regard to this possibility negotiations extended to suitable alternative work which would keep the factory reasonably employed.

Having read Suslyga's work, Kepler noted that Christ was born during the reign of King Herod the Great ( 2: 1 – 18 ), whose death he placed in 4 BC.

Having spent many years in obscurity, Nancarrow benefited from the 1969 release of an entire album of his work by Columbia Records as part of a brief flirtation of the label's classical division with modern avant-garde music.

Having criticized Mao Zedong's " irrational high growth " policies during the Great Leap Forward, Zhu was labeled a " Rightist " in 1958 and sent to work as a teacher at a cadre school.

Having received Jennens's text some time after 10 July 1741, Handel began work on it on 22 August.

Having seen the difficulty encountered by ivory-tower academicians attempting to participate in the business world, he resolved to change the cloistered educational experience by providing students with work experience in their field.

Having returned to Leipzig in 1686, he published anonymously ( two years later ) his first work, Scriptorum recentiorum decas, an attack on ten writers of the day.