But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.

From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

Gershwin composed the piece on commission from the New York Philharmonic.

This means that the game graphics are composed entirely of lines which are drawn on a vector monitor.

The music to all four films was composed and conducted by Ron Goodwin and is still played on radio today.

The earliest articles of faith were said to have been composed in the first century by the apostles themselves and sung publicly while on mission ( see Old Roman Symbol ).

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

* Josquin des Prez composed the motet " Absalon, fili mi " on the occasion of the death of Juan Borgia.

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

* They composed and performed personally for friends and associates on topics of immediate interest to them ;

* Political songs: Alcaeus often composed on a political theme, covering the power struggles on Lesbos with the passion and vigour of a partisan, cursing his opponents, rejoicing in their deaths, delivering blood-curdling homilies on the consequences of political inaction and exhorting his comrades to heroic defiance, as in one of his ' ship of state ' allegories.

In his second book, in an ode composed in Alcaic stanzas on the subject of an almost fatal accident he had on his farm, he imagines meeting Alcaeus and Sappho in Hades:

Alexander composed several commentaries on the works of Aristotle, in which he sought to escape a syncretistic tendency and to recover the pure doctrines of Aristotle.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

Beginning in 1778 Emperor wished to have new works, in German, composed by his own subjects and brought on the stage with clear Imperial support.

He also composed one large scale instrumental work in 1815 intended as a study in late classical orchestration: Twenty-Six Variations for the Orchestra on a Theme called La Folia di Spagna.

At his memorial service on 22 June 1825 his own Requiem in C minor — composed in 1804 – was performed for the first time.

Each frame of a television image is composed of lines drawn on the screen.

A response of Abba Mari on a ritual question is contained in MS. Ramsgate, No. 136 ; and Zunz ( Literaturgeschichte der Synagogalen Poesie, p. 498 ), mentions a ḳinah composed by Abba Mari.

Brahms venerated Beethoven: in the composer's home, a marble bust of Beethoven looked down on the spot where he composed, and some passages in his works are reminiscent of Beethoven's style.

Because the normal course of a futures contract in a market in contango is to decline in price, a fund composed of such contracts buys the contracts at the high price ( going forward ) and closes them out later at the usually lower spot price.

The band's first EP, To Mother, was composed of outtakes from Spanking Machine and was released in 1991 and received critical acclaim entering the independent charts and staying there for a thirteen weeks, ten of which the EP held the number one spot.

Thus Adi Sankara composed the very powerful Lakshmi-Narasimha Karavalambam Stotram at the very spot in front of Lord Narasimha.

: The rules for the lyrics are complex and particularly difficult to execute since the lyrics are composed on the spot:

The position, which was called a ' superflip composed with four spot ' needs 26 quarter turns.

It is composed of the following subdivisions in ascending order: falsebedded quartzite, Pipe Rock quartzite, fucoid beds and Olenellus band, serpulite grit, Durness dolomite and marble, Durness dolomite and limestone: but these are not always visible at any one spot.

The 1990s saw a renewed focus on scoring, starting with I Come in Peace ( a. k. a. " Dark Angel ", composed in 1989 but released in 1990 ), Curiosity Kills and all twenty episodes of the British television series, Chancer, several episodes of HBO's Tales from the Crypt ; a television spot for Amnesty International, featuring Czech president Václav Havel, two pilots for NBC, Knight Rider 2000 and News at 12, The Taking of Beverly Hills ( Columbia Pictures ) and New Line Cinema's Sunset Heat.

The widely spread offset-printing process is composed of four spot colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key ( black ) commonly referred to as CMYK.

His first two solo singles " Forever Love " ( released July 1996 ) and " Love Won't Wait " ( composed by Madonna and Shep Pettibone ) both leapt to the number one spot in his home country.

The volcanic islands of Samoa that dominate the acreage of the National Park are composed of shield volcanoes which developed from a hot spot on the Pacific Plate, emerging sequentially from west to east.

The songs are composed on the spot on issues relating to that village, be it cultural, social or political.

The bipod support system is composed of an A-frame figure with a pivotal, rotational, mounting spot.

The lost original poem was said to have been composed by an eye-witness, Richard le Pèlerin, (" Richard the Pilgrim "), a North French or Flemish jongleur, who began it partly on the spot, during the eight month siege of Antioch.

In 1975, his single, " The Elephant Song " ( composed and produced by Hans van Hemert ) hit the number one spot on the Dutch Top 40, the Nationale Hitparade ( currently Single Top 100 ) and the Belgian BRT Top 30.

Palmer's solo spot " Tank " was composed with Emerson.

She later attempted to impress music producer Timbaland by performing a song she claimed to have composed herself, looking for a spot in a video he was preparing and a possible future collaboration on a music project, but he turned her down.

Acharya being immensely happy with the darshan of the Lord composed the Govindashtakam stotram at the very same spot.

A positive risk reversal means the volatility of calls is greater than the volatility of similar puts, which implies a skewed distribution of expected spot returns composed of a relatively large number of small down moves and a relatively small number of large upmoves.