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Gassmann's first act was to take Salieri to the Italian Church to consecrate his teaching and service to God, an event that left a deep impression on Salieri for the rest of his life.
He left the troupe in May 1906, and joined the juvenile comedy act Casey's Court Circus.
As quoted from a Byzantine essay: " charged into the sea of the enemy soldiers, hitting left and right in a final act of defiance.
He was left behind to act as physician to the imperial heir Commodus.
The group G is said to act on X ( on the left ).
He suggested that " we have to keep in mind the awesome pace of change and realise how little time is left to act, and then each community and nation must find the best use of the resources they have to sustain civilisation for as long as they can ".
Hugh III's authority on the mainland began to break down ; he was an unpopular king, and Beirut, the only territory left outside of Acre and Tyre, started to act independently.
The act also stated that if an Asian left the country, they needed a certificate to re-enter.
After the cards are dealt, the player to the left of the big blind is the first to act during the first betting round.
In this situation, there are only three opponents left to act, so the odds that one of them has a better hand are considerably less ( only around 16 %).
His death left Saladin with political independence and in a letter to as-Salih, he promised to " act as a sword " against his enemies and referred to the death of his father as an " earthquake shock.
Adams concludes that “ right action, by act-utilitarian standards, and right motivation, by motive-utilitarian standards, are incompatible in some cases .” The necessity of this conclusion is rejected by Fred Feldman who argues thatthe conflict in question results from an inadequate formulation of the utilitarian doctrines ; motives play no essential role in it …( and that )… Precisely the same sort of conflict arises even when MU is left out of consideration and AU is applied by itself .” Instead, Feldman proposes a variant of act utilitarianism that results in there being no conflict between it and motive utilitarianism.
The offer was withdrawn, and after Howard, Fine and Howard learned of the reason, they left Healy to form their own act, which quickly took off with a tour of the theater circuit.
There are accounts of Healy threatening to bomb theaters if Howard, Fine and Howard ever performed there, which worried Shemp so much that he almost left the act ; reportedly, only a pay raise kept him on board.
These giant circular halls, which were unofficially called hunger circuses due to the food shortages experienced in the 1980s, were constructed during the Ceaușescu era to act as produce markets and refectories, although most were left unfinished at the time of the Revolution.
where is understood to act to the left.
However, the major argument for the act that carried over into the case was that the Constitution specified that Congress only needed to set time limits for copyright, the length of which was left to their discretion.
By the time he was 21, his father's alcoholism threatened the reputation of the family act, so Keaton and his mother, Myra, left for New York, where Buster Keaton's career swiftly moved from vaudeville to film.
The 1850s saw Lord John Russell introduce a number of reform bills to correct defects the first act had left unaddressed.
When he arrived in New York, however, he found that he had left the sketches behind, and he had to reconstruct the first act from memory.
His act consisted of singing Top Hat, White Tie and Tails and acting out the lyrics which left him standing in top hat, white tie, and tails — but no trousers.
Or if an opponent pushes the left side of your body, you can act as a revolving door and use that force in an attack with your right arm.
After the South seceded and their delegations left Congress in 1861, the Republicans and other supporters of the Upper South passed the act.
* As a particular example of the last point, for any ring R with unity, End ( R < sub > R </ sub >) = R, where the elements of R act on R by left multiplication.
This act was left in place for over a hundred years and was repealed in 1825.

act and Motown
Some musicians changed their sound completely to co-opt that of Sly and the Family Stone, most notably Motown in-house producer Norman Whitfield, who took his main act The Temptations into " psychedelic soul " territory starting with the Grammy-winning " Cloud Nine " in 1968 .< ref name = temptations >
While at Motown in 1968, Gladys Knight was the first person to suggest that Berry Gordy sign an up-and-coming act from Gary, Indiana called The Jackson Five ( later known as The Jacksons ).
Gladys Knight & the Pips joined the Motown roster in 1966, and, although regarded as a second-string act, scored several hit singles, including " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", ( recorded later by Marvin Gaye ), " Friendship Train " ( 1969 ), " If I Were Your Woman " ( 1970 ), " I Don't Want To Do Wrong " ( 1971 ), the Grammy Award winning " Neither One of Us ( Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye )" ( 1972 ), and " Daddy Could Swear ( I Declare )" ( 1973 ).
In their early Motown career Gladys Knight and the Pips toured as the opening act for Diana Ross and The Supremes.
The act enlisted former Motown producers Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson for their first two LPs -- About Love ( 1980 ) and Touch ( 1981 ).
Motown artists were advised that their breakthrough into the white popular music market made them ambassadors for other African American artists seeking broad market acceptance, and that they should think, act, walk and talk like royalty, so as to alter the less-than-dignified image commonly held by white Americans in that era of black musicians.
They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records initially as a support act to The Jackson 5.
* Paul Williams ( The Temptations ) ( 1939 – 1973 ), tenor / baritone from the popular Motown act The Temptations
In March 1969, the British music magazine, NME reported that Motown Records vice-president Barney Ales had visited London to sign the Pretty Things as the U. S. label's first British act.
He and longtime friend and future songwriting partner Freddie Gorman were in a short-lived group called The Fidalatones, and was later ( 1960 – 62 ) a member of Motown recording act The Satintones as well as being a member of The Rayber Voices, a quartet that backed up several early Motown recording acts.
Richard Street, then-lead singer of fellow Motown act The Monitors and formerly lead singer of The Distants, was hired to travel with The Temptations and sing all of Williams ' parts, save for Williams ' special numbers such as " Don't Look Back " and " For Once in My Life ", from backstage behind a curtain.
Though she was hailed as " the first lady of Motown ", Wells was technically Motown's third female signed act: Claudette Rogers of Motown's first star group The Miracles, has been referred to by Berry Gordy as " the first lady of Motown Records " due to her being signed as a member of the group, and in late 1959 Detroit blues-gospel singer Mable John signed to the then-fledging label a year prior to Wells ' arrival.
* The Jackson 5, a Motown R & B / soul act
The Four Tops began as a supper-club act before signing to Motown Records in 1963.
After this introduction, according to Mary Wilson, Gordy changed his mind about Terrell leading the group and suggested replacing her with another Motown act Syreeta Wright.
Although not the first white band signed to Motown, Rare Earth was the first big hit-making act signed by Motown that consisted only of white members.
In 1971, the Undisputed Truth became the final Motown act to record the song in its Marvin-styled version.
The group was the first major successful act of Motown Records after The Miracles and were its first significant successful girl group on the label's early years after the release of the number-one single, " Please Mr. Postman ", one of the first number-one singles recorded by an all-female vocal group and the first by a Motown recording act.

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