* Taking advantage of the quarrels between the Greek cities in Sicily and of the mutual exhaustion of Athens and Syracuse, Carthage seeks to reimpose its influence over the island.

Pinkerton has been influential on alternative rock ; acts including Manchester Orchestra, Yellowcard, Saves the Day, Taking Back Sunday, The Ataris, Thursday, the Used, The Brobecks, Dashboard Confessional, The Promise Ring, The Long Goodbye, and Rye Coalition have cited it as an influence.

Taking guidance from the book, those familiar with the novels were much more likely to engage in " spiritual warfare " and pray against demonic influence, and describe human events in terms of warring cosmic forces.

Taking influence from Japanese comics " The 8 Man " and the first Tokusatsu Metal Hero " Uchuu Keiji Gavan ( Space Sheriff Gavan )" from Toei, Rob, Paul Verhoeven, and Edward Neumeier came up with the concept of the suit being more of an outer shell, with only very little of the actor's actual face being visible.

Taking up residence on the top floor at Longleat for a period of some twenty years, he exerted a profound influence upon Thomas Thynne, becoming what some might describe as his conscience.

* Taking a view of Irish history which highlights perceived positive aspects of British influence in Ireland, or criticizing Irish nationalist rebellions

Taking influence from German experimental electronic music artist such as Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Conrad Schnitzler, Wilson, along with childhood friend Simon Vockings, formed the group Altamont in 1983.

Taking into account the nationalizing pressures exercised by Romanian authorities and the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, many Transylvanian Saxons became staunch supporters of National Socialism, the Church very much losing its influence in the community.

Taking advice from Oracle Jones ( Donald Pleasence ), a local guide and seer ( but only when under the influence of alcohol ), the populace arrange for a mass shipment, forty wagons full of whiskey, from the Wallingham Freighting Company.

Taking their influence from UK bands like Discharge and Amebix, Misery blended dark and heavy hardcore with an anti-authority political stand that was very influential on the future development of the genre.

Taking the LLR into account, yields a hard decision, i. e. a decoded bit.

Taking advantage of the SCSI implementation, Hill added an external connector to his version of the machine and developed a matching hard drive enclosure.

Taking field hollers and other basic Americana-based lyrical content ( with plentiful helpings of cursing and lewd rhyming, such as " My dick's as hard as Chinese arthimetic "), Mule tied them to the stripped-down, but loud and noisy guitar of P. W.

Taking out hard targets and enemy personnel is not their main priority, although it is a secondary option.

Taking their names from the story of Lot in the Book of Genesis, " Lot " and " Lot's Wife " are two solitary pillars of rock topping two valleys near Sandy Bay.

The British rock band IQ also mentioned Slovik in their song " For the Taking ".

* Taking Back Sunday, a rock / alternative band

Taking Back Sunday is an American rock band from Rockville Centre, NY, formed in 1999 by guitarist Eddie Reyes.

They stated that " Winter Passing " was "... a slow dance like the last song at your 8th grade dance moves more like an R & B tune than a rock and roll song ", and that " Carpathia " will include the first bass solos in any Taking Back Sunday song.

His upbeat " Taking Off " instrumental is an excellent example of his Jack Teagarden-inspired solos ; a towering inspiration to many Western swing, country and even rock guitarists in the years to follow.

Taking the shape of a narrative concept album which Perry detailed as a portrait of " various relationships in decay ", Susquehanna featured prominent strains of Latin and Caribbean-influenced music, incorporating flourishes of flamenco, Latin rock and reggae into the band's traditional fare of swing, ska and rock.

Taking the form of a massive hovering creature composed of wood, rock, and soil.

) is an American musician best known for his work as lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist in alternative rock band Taking Back Sunday.

Taking on the role of a priest, Tracy reportedly felt a heavy responsibility in representing the church.

Taking 90-minute commutes to school, enduring long and difficult workouts and practices, and acclimatising to a foreign social environment, Gates and Agee struggle to improve their athletic skills in a job market with heavy competition.

Taking heavy casualties, the Australians withdrew north to Lone Pine, where they were able to establish a defensive position.

Taking Geilenkirchen, as part of Operation Clipper on 19 November, the division pushed forward to take Beeck ( Geilenkirchen ) and Lindern in the face of heavy enemy resistance, 29 November.

Taking heart from his admiral, the captain of Re di Portogallo decided to hurl his ship at Kaiser, maintaining a heavy fire with her rifled guns as he did so.

Taking advantage of the resulting confusion, Maxwell pulled out a concealed revolver and shot two of the Germans before escaping with his men under heavy rifle fire ; one of the privates was subsequently wounded.

Taking advantage of his second chance, Brady led the Patriots inside the Raiders ' 30-yard line where Vinatieri made a 45-yard field goal with 27 seconds left, a dramatic kick through heavy snowfall that barely cleared the crossbar, sending the game into overtime.

Taking the effects of inflation into consideration, this growth indicates a rise in profits of 400 % in heavy industry between 1937 and 1940.

Taking advantage of the heavy prevailing winds from the west, the turbine is the first application of on-site wind generation for a North American transit system.

Taking a more mellow tone than Agalloch's first full-length, Pale Folklore, The Mantle still contains heavy electric guitar riffs as well as acoustic guitar portions.

On July 2005, he temporarily replaced Christopher Amott as guitarist of melodic death metal band Arch Enemy on their Ozzfest dates, and also contributed to their album Doomsday Machine by playing lead guitar on the song " Taking Back my Soul ".

Taking another step away from their terror EBM roots, the album features black metal-styled guitars prominently, and frequently complements them with blast beat kick drums and high-pitched, shrieking vocals typical of black metal.

Taking into account Thompson's capacity for self-dramatization and the possibility of a wish to identify his own life with the misfortunes of other poets who had known unhappy loves, there can be no doubt about his genuine emotion for Katie King.

Taking off his hat and signaling the driver with it, Mr. Podger stepped into the road, lifted the surprised turtle and consummated its road-crossing with what must have been a breath-taking suddenness.

Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.

Taking the path behind the Throne Room to the building directly beyond it, the Portrait Gallery, I went right at the end of it, through a garden to a small building at the back -- a sitting room furnished with low blue divans, its floor covered with carpets, its ceiling painted with gold squares and floral designs.

Taking alienation as a dependent variable, with what socio-structural factors is it most highly associated??

Taking Hamrick with him, William went to Mr. Willis.

Taking and developing the landscape style of Lucas Cranach the Elder, he shows the hilly landscape of the Danube valley with thick forests of drooping and crumbling firs and larches hung with moss, and often dramatic colouring from a rising or setting sun.

Taking into account the broad spectrum of the hypertensive population, one might expect that an effective treatment with ACE inhibitors, in particular with perindopril, would result in an important gain of lives saved.

Taking these words quite literally, Anthony gave away some of the family estate to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, donated the funds thus raised to the poor, placed his sister with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-monastery of nuns, and himself became the disciple of a local hermit.

Taking water from existing rivers or springs was an option in some cases, sometimes supplemented by other methods to deal with seasonal variations in flow.

Taking boats through these used large amounts of water leading to conflicts with watermill owners and to correct this, the pound or chamber lock first appeared, in 10th century in China and in Europe in 1373 in Vreeswijk, Netherlands.

Thus, for instance, the Taking Children Seriously movement has criticised pedagogic coercion by adults, including parents, on children, holding that it is possible and desirable to act with a child in such a way that all activities are consensual.

Taking this into consideration, he was thus associated with Amenhotep son of Hapu, who was another deified architect, in the region of Thebes where they were worshipped as " brothers " in temples dedicated to Thot and later in Hermopolis following the syncretist concept of Hermes-Thot, a concept that led to another syncretic belief, that of Hermes Trismegistus and hermeticism.

Taking advantage of liberalization by the unpopular ruling leftist / nationalist FLN regime, it used its preaching to advocate the establishment of a legal system following Sharia law, education in Arabic rather than French, and gender segregation, with women staying home to alleviate the high rate of unemployment among young Algerian men.

Taking over as starter was veteran quarterback Kerry Collins, who had been signed to the team after dissatisfaction with backup quarterback Curtis Painter and Dan Orlovsky.

Chase describes music from this period, “ Taking the guitar as his instrumental model, and drawing his inspiration largely from the peculiar traits of Andalusian folk music – but without using actual folk themes – Albéniz achieves a stylization of Spanish traditional idioms that while thoroughly artistic, gives a captivating impression of spontaneous improvisation ... Cordoba is the piece that best represents the style of Albéniz in this period, with its hauntingly beautiful melody, set against the acrid dissonances of the plucked accompaniment imitating the notes of the Moorish guslas.

Taking up and " communing with " ( Merleau-Ponty's phrase ) the sensible qualities it encounters, the body as incarnated subjectivity intentionally elaborates things within an ever-present world frame, through use of its pre-conscious, prepredicative understanding of the world's makeup.

Taking a gamble, the Brewers fired Rodgers and replaced him with hitting coach Harvey Kuenn.

Taking advantage of the position of Shiba Yoshikane, Yoshimune's son, as the rightful shugo, Nobunaga forged an alliance with the Imagawa clan of Suruga Province and the Kira clan of Mikawa Province, as both clans had the same shugo and would have no excuse to decline.

Taking advantage of this withdrawal, Gregory agreed to support Thrasimund II ’ s return to Spoleto, who forced his way back in by December 739 with Roman armed support.