Relying ... only on artistic and some literary sources because of the lack of archaeological examples, some believe that it was a heavy leather jacket with metal scales sewn onto it.

Relying heavily on Scripture, Watts wrote metered texts based on New Testament passages that brought the Christian faith into the songs of the church.

Relying on centuries of military, political and religious development, the Rozwi ( which means " destroyers ") removed the Portuguese from the Zimbabwe plateau by force of arms.

Relying on concepts of trusteeship and scientific management, they imposed a number of changes in crop production and agrarian techniques, claiming to promote conservation and " betterment " of farming in the colonial tribal reserves.

Relying on this type of treatment alone and avoiding or delaying conventional medical care for cancer may have serious health consequences.

Relying on knowledge of pre-Roman Gaul, or 13th century Ireland, as a guide to the Picts of the 6th century may be misleading if analogy is pursued too far.

Relying on the MMD's overwhelming majority in parliament, President Chiluba in May 1996 pushed through constitutional amendments that eliminated former President Kaunda and other prominent opposition leaders from the 1996 presidential elections.

Relying on a powerful military élite, Tamar was able to build on the successes of her predecessors to consolidate an empire which dominated the Caucasus until its collapse under the Mongol attacks within two decades after Tamar's death.

Relying heavily on photographic methods, the naval observers returned 350 photographic plates in 1874, and 1, 380 measurable plates in 1882.

Relying on his bank president father's connections, his political contacts, and his own business skill, Yerkes gained a name for himself in the local financial and social world.

Relying on the importance of the rhetorical situation in the concept of genre results in an exponential expansion of genre study, which benefits literary analysis.

Relying on his general warrant to return to England, given under the great seal, Essex sailed from Ireland on 24 September 1599, and reached London four days later.

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Relying on the support of the Monothelite party, he made some pretensions to the throne on the outbreak of the first great rebellion against Emperor Justinian II ; these led to his relegation to Cephalonia by Tiberius Apsimarus, and subsequently to his banishment, by order of Justinian, to Cherson.

Relying on his experience in the Richard Nixon administration, Haig wanted to ensure Department of State control of the interagency groups within the National Security Council ( NSC ) because they were the " key the flow of options to the President ," and thus to policy control.

Relying on arguments from etymology and the use of forensic techniques to uncover what he calls ' iconotropic ' redaction of original myths, Graves argues for the worship of a single goddess under many names, an idea that came to be known as " Matriarchal religion " in feminist theology of the 1970s.

Relying on referent power alone is not a good strategy for a leader who wants longevity and respect.

Relying on the concept of the author, copyright is based on the assumption that without an intellectual property rights regime, authors would have no incentive to further create, and that artists cannot produce new works without an economic incentive.

Relying on his popularity with the masses, he campaigned against and tried to obstruct Dudley's policies.

Relying on sizable foreign investment inflows to balance the current account, these did not suffice and the Central Bank was again forced to resort to borrowing to protect the peso's value against such pressure ( mostly by floating bonds, then the most sought-after in the developing world ).

Relying heavily upon anonymous sources, Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered information suggesting knowledge of the break-in, and attempts to cover it up, led deep into the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and the White House.

Relying on a re-examination of the oldest texts and conveyance of original meanings into modern English, the " new New Testament " was released to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the March 1611 publication of the King James Version of the Bible.

To Voltaire's surprise, however, their host gives them fresh clothes to put on, opens his purse to lend them money and sits them down before a good dinner.

A passage in Voltaire's Candide has the book's eponymous main character meet the deposed Ahmed III while on a ship from Venice to Constantinople.

In chapter three of Voltaire's 1747 novel Zadig there is an adaptation of The Three Princes of Serendip, this time involving, instead of a camel, a horse and a dog, which Zadig was able to describe in great detail from his observations of the tracks on the

Although most early-19th-century historians tended to follow Voltaire's lead in bestowing extravagant praise on the warrior-king, others have criticized him as a fanatic, a bully, and a bloodthirsty warmonger.

The most famous example is Voltaire's Zadig ( 1748 ), an attack on religious bigotry set against a vague pre-Islamic Middle Eastern background.

In the middle of the 19th century, a revival of interest in choral music swept France, and Saint-Saëns, an admirer of the oratorios of Handel and Mendelssohn, made plans to compose an oratorio on the subject of Samson and Delilah as suggested by Voltaire's libretto Samson for Rameau.

Following the success of The Lark, Hellman conceived of another play with incidental music, based on Voltaire's Candide.

Voltaire's story ( in his Letters on the English Nation ) that Her Grace used to go to Wycherley's chambers in the Temple disguised as a country wench, in a straw hat, with pattens on and a basket in her hand, may be apocryphal, for disguise was superfluous in her case, but it shows how general was the opinion that, under such patronage as this, Wycherley's fortune as poet and dramatist was now made.

Pierre Bayle attributed to Bodin a maxim about the intellectual consequences of the non-existence of God ( a precursor of Voltaire's, but based on a traditional commonplace of French thinkers ).

When, after Voltaire's death, La Harpe in his praise of the philosopher ventured on some reasonable, but rather ill-timed, criticism of individual works, he was accused of treachery to one who had been his constant friend.

In consequence of his History of Louis XI, he was appointed historiographer of France, when that place became vacant on Voltaire's retirement to Prussia.

The term " panglossianism " describes baseless optimism of the sort exemplified by the beliefs of Pangloss from Voltaire's Candide, which are the opposite of his fellow traveller Martin's pessimism and emphasis on free will.

* Dialogue from the film is sampled in the track " Project80 " on Cabaret Voltaire's 1994 album The Conversation.

The libretto by Gaetano Rossi is based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Babylon.

His predilection for the stage was cultivated in amateur theatricals, and on 21 November 1787 he made his debut at the Comédie-Française as Seide in Voltaire's Mahomet.

His first step in this direction was to appear in the small role of Proculus in Voltaire's Brutus, with a toga and short Roman haircut, much to the surprise of an audience accustomed to 18th century costume on stage, regardless of whether it suited the part played.

According to Arnold Ages, Voltaire's " Lettres philosophiques, Dictionnaire philosophique, and Candide, to name but a few of his better known works, are saturated with comments on Jews and Judaism and the vast majority are negative ".

In an opposite direction, he premiered a technologically innovative opera called Dennis Cleveland at the Kitchen in 1996, based on a talk show format and with some of the singers / actors spread out among the audience, though with a dense libretto drawn from John Ralston Saul's critique of Western society in the latter's book Voltaire's Bastards.

The more radical Swinney's Birmingham Chronicle, which caused controversy in 1771 by serialising Voltaire's Thoughts on Religion, boasted in 1776 that it circulated across nine counties and was " filed by coffeehouses in practically every centre of any size from Edinburgh southwards ".

Jean-François Lefevre de la Barre ( September 12, 1745 – July 1, 1766 ) was a French nobleman, famous for having been tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with Voltaire's " Philosophical Dictionary ".

Voltaire's efforts were successful, and in 1765 the unfortunate Jean Calas was posthumously exonerated on all charges.

In his Voltaire, A Life ( pp. 427 – 31 ), Ian Davidson describes events on Voltaire's estate at Ferney, north of Geneva, in the 1770s.

The " ceremony of e-fumi, of trampling on images, was well enough reported in Europe already by the early eighteenth century to have left a mark on works of imaginative literature like Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Oliver Goldsmith's The Citizen of the World, and Voltaire's Candide ," according to Prof. Michael North in Artistic and Cultural Exchanges Between Europe and Asia, 1400-1900.