Still, the greatest poets and thinkers of ancient Rome continued to emulate her or compare other writers to her, and it is through these comparisons and descriptions that we have received much of her extant poetry.

Author John MacDonald cites it as one of the greatest extant examples of the mastery of military logistics, stating, " probably his greatest military achievement, unsurpassed at the time, was the logistic repositioning, within twenty-four hours, of a whole army corps at the Battle of the Bulge.

The Cathedral of Monreale is one of the greatest extant examples of Norman architecture in the world.

This development had a direct effect on the sculptural decoration of temples, as many of the greatest extant works of Ancient Greek sculpture once adorned temples, and many of the largest recorded statues of the age, such as the lost chryselephantine statues of Zeus at the Temple of Zeus at Olympia and Athena at the Parthenon, Athens, both over 40 feet high, were once housed in them.

The greatest number of extant Gable-Fronts ( or Temple-Fronts ) in the district were built between the 1890s and 1910s, although a few older examples date to the 1880s.

Wŏnhyo, commonly regarded as the greatest thinker in Korean Buddhism, was a prolific writer who produced no less than eighty-six works, of which twenty-three are extant either completely or partially.

He is now considered one of the greatest of all woodblock artists, and the first ' modern ' artist of Japan, and the extraordinarily rare extant originals of his prints command fantastic sums at auctions.

Though they comprise only a fraction of the corpus of extant kharjas, it is the Romance kharjas that have attracted the greatest scholarly interest.

Tiersen played almost all the instruments both in the studio and in concert, and this gave him a theatrical appeal as a one-man show, which allowed him to perform, among others, at the 1996 edition of the Avignon Festival, the oldest extant festival in France and one of the world's greatest.

There are believed to be 556 extant species of thalassinideans in 96 genera, with the greatest diversity in the tropics, although with some species reaching latitudes above 60 ° north.

By the end of the 13th century, Marian hymns constituted the greatest number of texts in the Montpellier Codex, the largest and most comprehensive extant manuscript of 13th century music.

There were many star maps written before Song's book, but the greatest significance of these star maps by Su Song is, that they represent the oldest extant star maps in printed form.

This densely settled residential area of the city contains one of the greatest concentrations of notable pre-1900 domestic structures extant in the U. S. With few exceptions, the major architectural styles common to the region during the 1640-1940 period are represented.

* 1979 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called " malaise " speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as " this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation " but in which he never uses the word malaise.

From greatest to least stricture, speech sounds may be classified along a cline as stop consonants ( with occlusion, or blocked airflow ), fricative consonants ( with partially blocked and therefore strongly turbulent airflow ), approximants ( with only slight turbulence ), and vowels ( with full unimpeded airflow ).

During the surrender negotiations, Chief Joseph sent a message, usually described as a speech, to the soldiers which is often considered one of the greatest American speeches: "... Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired.

Some of the greatest examples of public speaking are well known and studied years after the speech was delivered.

Powell cut out and retained all his life an article from the New Statesman newspaper of 13 November 1943, in which the American Clare Boothe Luce said in a speech that Indian independence would mean that the " USA will really have won the greatest war in the world for democracy ".

Denis Healey, a member of parliament from 1952 to 1992, later said this speech was " the greatest parliamentary speech I ever heard ... it had all the moral passion and rhetorical force of Demosthenes ".

Unit selection provides the greatest naturalness, because it applies only a small amount of digital signal processing ( DSP ) to the recorded speech.

In his speech, President Jacques Chirac stated that an injustice was being corrected with the proper honoring of one of France's greatest authors.

* Antiphon defends himself in a speech Thucydides describes as the greatest ever made by a man on trial for his life.

After Mao died in 1976, Hua Guofeng gave a speech praising Mao's suppression of " Right and ' Left ' Opportunist lines of the Party " as one of the late Chairman's greatest achievements: Chen's was the first person to be named as being correctly suppressed ; Deng Xiaoping was the last.

The language of the early Scots-Irish settlers had the greatest influence on the speech of southwestern and western Pennsylvania.

Geoffrey Malaterra, who compares Robert Guiscard and his brother to " Joseph and Benjamin of old ," says of Roger: " He was a youth of the greatest beauty, of lofty stature, of graceful shape, most eloquent in speech and cool in counsel.

His speech in the House of Commons was described by Edmund Burke, Charles James Fox and William Pitt as the greatest ever delivered in ancient or modern times.

The subset of HLT that is of greatest interest to the language teacher is Natural Language Processing ( NLP ), especially the areas of speech synthesis, speech recognition and parsing.

On 15 July the third reading of the Bill took place and Cranborne spoke first, in a speech which his biographer Andrew Roberts has called " possibly the greatest oration of a career full of powerful parliamentary speeches ".

" His most memorable speech, the greatest he ever made, was delivered on 23 February 1855.

The New York Times printed the speech in full and described it as " the greatest speech since President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address ".

" About 40 minutes later, in his acceptance speech, Schwarzenegger said, " Today California has given me the greatest gift of all: You've given me your trust by voting for me.

Stapp starts his speech with this declaration, “ On behalf of the entire membership of the American Servicemen ’ s Union, I ’ d like to avail myself of this opportunity to extend the greatest honor and thanks to the great leader of the 40 million Korean people, Comrade Kim Il-song, ever-victorious, iron-willed, brilliant commander and outstanding leader of the international communist and working-class movements, who has shown such a warm solicitude as to invite me to the congress and make it possible for me to stand on this high rostrum .” In the same speech, Stapp continues to express his indignation against US imperialism and encourages the reading of “ the works of genius of Marshal Kim Il-song, outstanding Marxist-Leninist of present times, books which contain the basic positions, attitudes, strategy, and tactics that should be adopted by revolutionaries in any country or in any part of the world .” In closing, Stapp promised to return to America and “ share with my comrades the great chuche idea that they may be aroused to struggle more vigorously against the U. S. policy of aggression .” Kim Sung Il was regarded by the WWP and its front organizations as the great leader of modern times, and their closest friend and instructor, who was able to guide the WWP in their struggle for solidarity.

The Whitney case is most noted for Justice Louis Brandeis's concurrence, which many scholars have lauded as perhaps the greatest defense of freedom of speech ever written by a member of the high court.

Harcourt enjoyed the reputation of being a brilliant orator ; Speaker Onslow going so far as to say that " Harcourt had the greatest skill and power of speech of any man I ever knew in a public assembly.

Individuals who survived to this, the latest and highest stage of evolutionary progress would be “ those in whom the power of self-preservation is the greatest — are the select of their generation .” Moreover, Spencer perceived governmental authority as borrowed from the people to perform the transitory aims of establishing social cohesion, insurance of rights, and security.

Critics of this type of argument have tended to point out that this is just a standard criticism of representative democracy — a democratically elected government will not always act in the direction of greatest current public support — and that, therefore, there is no inconsistency in the leaders ' positions given that these countries are parliamentary democracies.

While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound — core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood — beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.

But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.

Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.

Simon's greatest triumph was the victory against superior numbers at the Battle of Muret — a battle which saw not only the defeat of Raymond of Toulouse and his Occitan allies — but also the death of Peter of Aragon — and the effective end of the ambitions of the house of Aragon / Barcelona in the Languedoc.

Though nearly all modern mathematicians consider nonconstructive methods just as sound as constructive ones, Euclid's constructive proofs often supplanted fallacious nonconstructive ones — e. g., some of the Pythagoreans ' proofs that involved irrational numbers, which usually required a statement such as " Find the greatest common measure of ..."

Food — too much, not enough, the wrong kind, the wrong frequency — is one of our society ’ s greatest causes of disease and death.

This would explain why tests like the Raven's have shown the greatest increases — they depend on such analysis.

Historian Gordon Wood concludes that the greatest act in his life was his resignation as commander of the armies — an act that stunned aristocratic Europe.

Several magazines and websites have compiled what they intend as lists of the greatest guitarists — for example The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine, or 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World magazine.

Following Aristippus — about whom very little is known — Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquility and freedom from fear ( ataraxia ) as well as absence of bodily pain ( aponia ) through knowledge of the workings of the world and the limits of our desires.

The Greek Galen was one of the greatest surgeons of the ancient world and performed many audacious operations — including brain and eye surgeries — that were not tried again for almost two millennia.

Hoover kept the intercepts — America's greatest counterintelligence secret — in a locked safe in his office, choosing not to inform President Truman, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, or two Secretaries of State — Dean Acheson and General George Marshall — while they held office.