It must be conceded that his native land provided Prokofieff with many of the necessary conditions for great creative incentive: economic security and cultural opportunities, incisive idioms, social fermentations for a new national ideology -- a sympathetic public and a large body of performers especially trained to fulfill his purpose.

Housman's poetry, especially A Shropshire Lad, provided texts for a significant number of British, and in particular English, composers in the first half of the 20th century.

The ultimate objective of the OCCC program was to use Blissymbols as a practical way to teach the children to express themselves in their mother tongue, since the Blissymbols provided visual keys to understand the meaning of the English words, especially the abstract words.

After producing the third volume of his series in 1976, he expressed such frustration with the nascent state of the then newly-developed electronic publishing tools ( especially those that provided input to phototypesetters ) that he took time out to work on typesetting and created the TeX and METAFONT tools.

For organic chemists, the theory of structure provided dramatic new clarity of understanding, and a reliable guide to both analytic and especially synthetic work.

The trick photography and especially the blended sweep and skill of the miniature settings provided the visual splash.

The IFW grew rapidly, especially by assimilating several pre-existing wargaming clubs, and aimed to promote interest in wargames of all periods and provided via its newsletters and societies a forum for wargamers to form local groups and share rules.

Ewuare's grandson Oba Esigie ( 1504 – 1550 ) eroded the power of the uzama ( state council ) and increase contact and trade with Europeans, especially with the Portuguese who provided a new source of copper for court art.

Hydrocodone can usually be successfully used with duloxetine ( Cymbalta ) for neuropathic pain, especially that from diabetic neuropathy, provided that the patient has normal relative and absolute levels of Cytochrome P450-related liver enzymes.

Others, especially evolutionary biologists, strongly object to assuming syntactic knowledge is genetically encoded and provided by automatic wiring of the brain.

An especially dramatic example is provided by children who, for medical reasons, are unable to produce speech, and, therefore, can literally never be corrected for a grammatical error, yet, nonetheless, converge on the same grammar as their typically developing peers, according to comprehension-based tests of grammar.

This stability is provided in multihulls by the weight of the boat itself, in contrast to monohull sailcraft which typically use an underwater counterweight, a ballasted keel for this purpose, especially on larger sailboats.

The context of this remark, however, suggests only that Aristotle advised that it could be rhetorically advantageous to appeal to such a law, especially when the " particular " law of one's own city was averse to the case being made, not that there actually was such a law ; Aristotle, moreover, considered two of the three candidates for a universally valid, natural law provided in this passage to be wrong.

It also provided liberal fiscal incentives for companies to develop specific areas of the country, especially the departments of Alto Paraguay, Nueva Asunción, Chaco, and Boquerón.

The earliest versions, however, especially those models with the Bosch K-Jetronic ( CIS ) injection system, have few electronic components and therefore can be repaired more easily provided spare parts can be found.

In the past, many rural pubs provided opportunities for country folk to meet and exchange ( often local ) news, while others — especially those away from village centres — existed for the general purpose, before the advent of motor transport, of serving travellers as coaching inns.

In such cases, requestors asking for a Purple Heart ( especially from records of the First World War ) are provided with a complete copy of all available records ( or reconstructed records in the case of the 1973 fire ) and advised that the Purple Heart may be privately purchased if the requestor feels it is warranted.

This edition added feasts, especially of recently canonized saints, it added more prefaces of the Eucharistic Prayers, it provided additional Masses and prayers for various needs and, and it revised and amplified the General Instruction of the Roman Missal.

In Scandinavia and the Slavic parts of Europe especially, " national romanticism " provided a series of answers to the 19th-century search for styles that would be culturally meaningful and evocative, yet not merely historicist.

The performers often protested ( to no avail ) that they had no objection to the sideshow, especially since it provided not only a good income for them, but in many cases it provided their only possible job.

These rooms are prized because of the high insulation provided by the air-filled pumice, and are used as living quarters of unique coolness in the summer and warmth in the winter, and also as premium storage space for produce and especially for wine cellaring: the Kánava wineries of Santorini.

Both countries reacted negatively, especially in light of then ongoing negotiations on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the economic aid both countries provided to India.

After the first album, the band felt that demos for the second album ( on which Corner provided the guide vocals ) better suited his voice, especially in regard to the more raw, personal quality of the lyrics.

Limited manpower did not allow most Greek city-states to form large armies which could operate for long periods, especially in the case of light troops like the psiloi, who were recruited from the lower citizen classes, and as such, they were mainly farmers, workers, even slaves.

They require more combat supplies ( ammunition and especially fuel ) and ordnance supplies ( spare vehicle components ), and a comparatively larger proportion of their manpower is required to crew and maintain the vehicles.

Due historically to a third of Bermuda's manpower being at sea at any one time, and to many of those seamen ultimately settling elsewhere, especially as the Bermudian maritime industry began to suffer, Bermuda was noted for having a high number of aging spinsters well into the 20th century.

Through military aid and credit-assisted sales of military equipment abroad, the United States would prepare its allies to take up a greater share of the defense burden, especially manpower needs, in case of war.

Then the Industrial Revolution drew additional manpower away from hilltown farms, especially after 1850 when steam engines fueled by local wood or by coal began to replace water power.

Although the Athenians had sent 8, 000 hoplites to Plataea, they would still have had ample manpower to man a large fleet of triremes, especially since rowers tended to be of the lower classes ( the thetes ) who could not afford the equipment to fight as hoplites.

We suffered large sacrifices and losses with regard to manpower and materiel, especially cadres at the various echelons, which clearly weakened us.

From then on, paid labor replaced most of the convict-based manpower, attracted by the region's rapid economic expansion, especially the gold-mining interests.

The organization of a system of Local and Provincial Militias around this period in several countries ( and the growing importance of Local Aristocracy, the so called “ refeudalization of the armies ” especially in Eastern Europe ) contributed to the extension of manpower base of the national armies, although foreign mercenaries still remained a considerable percentage in all European armies.

Forced labor, one is told, depleted manpower in many places, especially in areas where the male population were made to cut timber in forests, or were made to work in shipyards, far from their own homes, and, thus, causing untold misery to their families.

In this effort the new Muslim elite, which came from the inland-oriented northern part of the Arabian peninsula, largely relied on the resources and manpower of the conquered Levant ( especially the Copts of Egypt ), which until a few years previously had provided ships and crews for the Byzantines.

Ohio played a major role in World War II, especially in providing manpower, food, and munitions to the Allied cause.

The Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force ( HKAPF, ) is established in 1914 as the Police Reserve unit, provides additional manpower to the Hong Kong Police Force, especially during emergencies and other incidents.

Opponents argue that CVBGs are increasingly vulnerable to arsenal ships and cruise missiles, especially those with supersonic flight and the ability to perform radical trajectory changes to avoid anti-missile systems.

In modern navies, frigates are used to protect other warships and merchant-marine ships, especially as anti-submarine warfare ( ASW ) combatants for amphibious expeditionary forces, underway replenishment groups, and merchant convoys.

He has been a representative for Princess Cruises for 23 years and is an MC for them, especially when new ships are launched.

The Byzantines also used the weapon to devastating effect against the various Rus ' raids to the Bosporus, especially those of 941 and 1043, as well as during the Bulgarian war of 970 – 971, when the fire-carrying Byzantine ships blockaded the Danube.

A network of passenger ships makes longer connections to more remote islands, especially in the eastern part of the archipelago.

The capturing of prizes ( enemy equipment, vehicles, and especially ships ) during wartime is a tradition that goes back as far as organized warfare itself.

Comparative evidence shows that all iron and steel ships, especially those in a highly oxygenated environment, continue to degrade and will continue to do so until only their engines and other machinery project much above the sea-floor.

The development of large capacity, sail-powered ships carrying cannon led to a rapid expansion of European navies, especially the Spanish and Portuguese navies which dominated in the 16th and early 17th centuries, and helped propel the age of exploration and colonialism.

Oak wood, from Quercus robur and Quercus petraea, was used in Europe for the construction of ships, especially naval men of war, until the 19th century, and was the principal timber used in the construction of European timber-framed buildings.

In maritime navigation they are placed on bridge abutments, buoys, ships and, especially, lifeboats, to ensure that these show up strongly on ship radar screens.

The VLF and LF frequencies are mostly used for military communications, especially with ships and submarines.

The cuisine of Nice is especially close to those of Provence but also Liguria and Piedmont and uses local ingredients ( olive oil, anchovies, fruit and vegetables ) but also those from more remote regions, in particular from Northern Europe, because ships which came to pick up olive oil arrived full of food products, such as dried haddock.

This was especially the case because in early 1941, the Royal Navy used intelligence from Ultra to sink all of the Dithmarschen ships and other supply ships that the Kriegsmarine used to supply U-boats and surface raiders on the high seas.

Raeder left the meeting of 6 January very depressed, especially over the prospect of seeing his beloved capital ships scrapped and of Hitler's criticism of his leadership.

At the time of the Muslim invasion of Sindh, in the 7th century, the new kingdom of Hijaz launched trade ships to India especially Sindh.

Dendrochronology is an important technique especially for dating the timbers of wooden ships.

Many Norwegians earned a living as sailors in foreign ships, especially Dutch ones.

* Bilboes, a physical restraint used as punishment and on slaves, especially on ships

By the middle of the 17th century the Dutch had built by far the largest mercantile fleet in Europe, with more ships than all the other states combined, and their economy, based mainly on maritime commerce, gave them a dominant position in European trade, especially in the North Sea and Baltic.

River traffic is mostly made up of cargo, especially on the Paraná River, which is navigable by very large ships ( Panamax kind ) downstream from the Greater Rosario area.

In the case of the limited resource of land, famine was relieved firstly by the revolution in transportation caused by railroads and steam ships, and later by the Green Revolution and chemical fertilizers, especially the Haber process for ammonia synthesis.

Some hotel sauna facilities and especially cruise ships and / or ferries have an area where refreshments ( often alcoholic ) are served in conjunction with the sauna / pool area ; draping a towel around the waist is generally required in that part of such facilities.

Together with two other ships under the command of Hugh Willoughby, they were seeking a northern route to the Indies, especially India and China.