As his teaching and work with the imperial chapel continued, his duties required the composition of a large number of sacred works, and in his last years it was almost exclusively in religious works and teaching that Salieri occupied himself.

That he was rich seems probable ; for he appears to have occupied himself for a time with commerce and afterward with agriculture ( Hullin 105a ).

Abbahu sent Ḥanina to the academy at Tiberias, where he himself had studied, but the lad occupied himself with the burial of the dead, and on hearing of this, the father sent him a reproachful message in this laconic style: " Is it because there are no graves in Cæsarea ( compare Exodus 14: 11 ) that I have sent thee off to Tiberias?

The campaign was designed by John, who was the fulcrum of the alliances ; his plan being to draw the French away from Paris southward against himself and keep him occupied, while the main army, under Emperor Otto IV, marched on Paris from the north.

He occupied the city of London, and set himself up as the champion of the disinherited.

Often ill for much of the winters and kept out of school, Edvard would draw to keep himself occupied, and received tutoring from his school mates and his aunt.

At first, he occupied himself with works on Biblical criticism under the influence of Pamphilus and probably of Dorotheus of Tyre of the School of Antioch.

In 1440, his fiefs in the Kingdom of Naples were occupied by King Alfonso I, and, to recover the situation, Sforza reconciled himself with Filippo Visconti.

In presenting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934, Professor I. Holmgren of the Nobel committee observed that " Of the three prize winners, it was Whipple who first occupied himself with the investigations for which the prize is now awarded.

His chief interest was still in mineralogy, but he occupied himself also with medical, mathematical, theological and historical subjects, his chief historical work being the Dominatores Saxonici a prima origine ad hanc aetatem, published at Freiberg.

Prior to translating Averroes ' commentaries, Anatoli had occupied himself with the translation of astronomical treatises by the same writer and others ; but at the instance of friends he turned his attention to logic and the speculative works, realizing and recommending theimportance of logic, in particular, in view of the contemporary religious controversies.

Over the years, he also occupied himself with a number of volumes of animal, insect, and nature studies and shunga, or erotica.

Philby occupied himself by writing his memoirs, published in England in 1968 under the title My Silent War.

Miles goes undercover and allows himself to be captured by the Cetagandans, who have invaded and occupied Marilac, in order to infiltrate a maximum-security POW camp on Dagoola IV.

Alaeddin, like many of his successors in that office, did not often command the armies in person, but he occupied himself with the foundation and management of the civil and military institutions of the state.

Being thus secure in Rome and the surrounding country, he next set himself to oust the Republic of Venice from Faenza, Rimini, and the other towns and fortresses of Italy which it occupied after the death of Pope Alexander.

In the same year, Waits appeared as himself in Roberto Benigni's romantic comedy La Tigre e la Neve, set in occupied Baghdad during the Iraq War.

He himself occupied the castle town of Edo in Kantō.

On the death of Hugh of Maine, Geoffrey Martel occupied Maine in a move contested by William and King Henry ; eventually they succeeded in driving Geoffrey from the county, and in the process, William was able to secure the Bellême family strongholds at Alençon and Domfort for himself.

( Assistant editor Nick Landau largely edited the comic himself in 1978 while Kelvin Gosnell was occupied with editing new sister title Starlord.

It was attacked and occupied by Louis XI of France in 1463 ; a violent uprising against French rule in 1473 was harshly put down after a long siege, but in 1493 Charles VIII of France, wishing to conciliate Castile in order to free himself to invade Italy, restored it to Ferdinand II of Aragon.

The principality, which he thus carved out for himself, was occupied, on his death, by Erispoé, duke of Brittany ; by him it was handed down to his successors, in whose hands it remained until the beginning of the 10th century.

Berengar occupied himself with the study of the Gospel of John, with a view to confirming his views.

Apart from routine official duties, Holbein now occupied himself with private commissions, turning again to portraits of Steelyard merchants.

However, Ayub Khan, one of Sher Ali Khan's sons, marched upon that city from Herat, defeated Abdur Rahman's troops, and occupied the place in July 1880.

In protest, squatters in Amsterdam had occupied a former fire department the week before the law began ( returning it to the owners control on 30 September ) and a riot occurred on 1 October when the police blocked a protest and led a horse charge upon it.

The Freigraf and the Schöffen ( judges ) occupied the bench, before which a table, with a sword and rope upon it, was placed.

Early in August the Russian, Prussian and Austrian troops simultaneously entered the Commonwealth and occupied the provinces agreed upon among themselves.

The agriculture of the countryside had diversified to the point where grain was imported from Morocco ( a symptom of an economy dependent upon Portugal's ), while specialised crops occupied former grain-growing areas: vineyards, olives, or the sugar factories of the Algarve, later to be reproduced in Brazil ( Braudel 1985 ).

Consequently the town was included within the Duchy of Warsaw, but upon defeat of Napoleon in Russian in 1812 was occupied by the Russian army and was returned to Prussia in the 1815 Congress of Vienna.

Although Aurembiax's mother, Elvira, had made herself a protegée of James's father, upon her death in 1220 Guerao had occupied the county and displaced Aurembiax, claiming that a woman could not inherit.

The arming of Egyptians in this campaign had a disturbing effect upon the native population of Egypt, leading to the secession of Upper Egypt under pharaohs Harmachis ( also known as Hugronaphor ) and Ankmachis ( also known as Chaonnophris ), thus creating a kingdom that occupied much of the country and lasted nearly twenty years.

This fortress was occupied and further built upon until the close of the Parthian period, about AD 250 ; but under the succeeding rule of the Sassanids it in its turn fell into decay, and the ancient sanctuary became, to a considerable extent, a mere place of sepulture, only a small village of mud huts huddled about the ancient ziggurat continuing to be inhabited.

Alexandre Dumas's novel La Dame de Monsoreau is based upon the amorous escapades of two ladies who occupied the castle during the reign of King Henri III.

A part of Monacan country upon the arrival of English settlers in Virginia, the region had traditionally been occupied by them and other Siouan Tutelo-speaking tribes since ca.

A ghetto is a part of a city predominantly occupied by a particular ethnic group that may be looked down upon for various reasons, especially because of social or economic issues, or because they have been forced to live there ( e. g. the Jewish Ghettos in Europe ).

This had been the coach road when the house was occupied, as I understand, by a Major John BRITTON, who, according to the account of the old farmer, was said to have ruined himself by working the coal upon his own estate half brother, William JONES of Stowey, baled him out with a loan of £ 1, 200, in return for which BRITTON left JONES his High Littleton estates and lordship of the manor on his death in 1742.

In contrast to countries occupied by the Red Army, there were no Soviet occupation authorities in Czechoslovakia upon whom the communists could rely to assert a leading role.

Though he was backed by Pope Innocent IV and anti-king William of Holland, he could not prevail against the mighty Přemyslid king Wenceslaus I of Bohemia and his son Ottokar II, who upon Herman's death in 1250 occupied the Babenberg lands.

A confused person has their conscious mind busy and occupied, and is very much inclined to draw upon unconscious learnings to make sense of things.

The offences listed in paragraph I as a rule are to be dealt with in the occupied countries only if it is probable that sentence of death will be passed upon the offender, at least the principal offender, and if the trial and the execution can be completed in a very short time.

Today's independent Belize government holds the viewpoint that treaties signed by the UK are not binding on them, that the International Court of Justice's precedent is that the 1859 treaty is binding on Guatemala unless Guatemala can firmly prove the 1859 treaty was forced upon them by the UK, that international law says any breaches in the 1859 treaty by the UK would not excuse Guatemala's breaches and the UK never made " material breaches ," that Guatemala never inherited Spain's claim because Guatemala never occupied that part of Spain's New World colonies, and the right of a people to self-determination.

With Turkey's military action of 1974 ( disapproved by UN Security Council Resolution 1974 / 360 ), Turkey occupied the northern part of the internationally recognised Republic of Cyprus, and later upon those territories the Turkish Cypriot community unilaterally declared independence forming the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC ), a sovereign entity that lacks international recognition-with the exception of Turkey with which TRNC enjoys full diplomatic relations.

Napoleon had just occupied Hanover, and Haugwitz had urged upon the king the necessity for strong measures and the expediency of a Russian alliance ; During his absence, however, the king's irresolution continued ; he clung to the policy of neutrality which had so far seemed to have served Prussia so well ; and Hardenberg contented himself with adapting himself to the royal will.

After an unsuccessful attempt to kill him by two Eritreans on 19 February 1937 ( and after other murders of Italians in occupied Ethiopia ), Graziani ordered a bloody and indiscriminate reprisal upon the conquered country, later remembered by Ethiopians as Yekatit 12: up to thirty thousand civilians of Addis Ababa were killed indiscriminately ; another 1, 469 were summarily executed by the end of the next month, and over one thousand Ethiopian notables were imprisoned and then exiled from Ethiopia.

The Ismailis and other occupied peoples of Iran held shared resentment for the ruling Seljuqs, who had divided the country ’ s farmland into iqtā ’ ( fiefs ) and levied heavy taxes upon the citizens living therein.

The land that the hotel sits upon had been occupied in the 1950s by the Las Vegas Park Speedway, a failed horse and automobile racing facility.

The Government of occupied Denmark could not accept the text and demanded four exemptions that made it clear Denmark took upon itself no military or political obligations, that any actions against communists would only be police enforcements, that the treaty with regard to Denmark only applied to Denmark's own territory and that Denmark remained a neutral country.