The tendency to treat elections as an instrument of self-interest rather than an instrument of national interest had two important effects on electoral planning in Morocco.

During his second week at sea he brought the curious melody out of the instrument and suddenly wanted to force the biwa to remain at just that moment in its history when it had given him pleasure.

The chemist Francis William Aston used this instrument to show that isotopes had different masses.

The early a cappella polyphonies may have had an accompanying instrument, although this instrument would merely double the singers ' parts and was not independent.

In 2006 and 2007, J. D. Monnier and his coworkers produced an image of Altair's surface from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer ; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence star, apart from the Sun, had been imaged.

The instrument featured a shape inspired by Mercury, Stratocaster, and Rickenbacker's solidbodies and had a single-coil and a humbucker pickup.

These had been rectangular, they now became “ ram ’ s horn ” shaped, thus not blocking the instrument panel as much.

Early clavichords frequently had many notes played on each string, even going so far as the keyed monochord — an instrument with only one string — though most clavichords were triple-or double-fretted.

Since then the Court has appeared to be more open to finding states guilty of torture and has even ruled that since the Convention is a " living instrument ", treatment which it had previously characterised as inhuman or degrading treatment might in future be regarded as torture.

In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, a growing number of composers ( many of them composer-performers who had grown up playing the instrument in rock bands ) began writing contemporary classical music for the electric guitar.

It had six courses ( usually ), lute-like tuning in fourths and a guitar-like body, although early representations reveal an instrument with a sharply cut waist.

Hammond had intended his invention to be an affordable substitute for pipe organs, as a replacement for the piano in middle-class homes, and as an instrument for radio broadcasting.

The coup pre-empted King Idris ' instrument of abdication dated 4 August 1969 to take effect 2 September 1969 in favour of the Crown Prince, who had been appointed regent following the king's departure for Turkey.

The importance of the method of setting the strings in vibration by means of hammers, and its bearing on the acoustics of the instrument, were recognized only when the invention of the pianoforte had become a matter of history.

For both, the instrument featured in the earlier period of their careers and was abandoned once they had shifted their efforts to the piano.

Arguably, no other musical instrument had greater influence on how music evolved since the beginning of the twentieth century.

By the 1930s, the guitar began to displace the banjo as the primary chordal rhythm instrument in jazz music, because the guitar could be used to voice chords of greater harmonic complexity, and it had a somewhat more muted tone that blended well with the upright bass, which, by this time, had almost completely replaced the tuba as the dominant bass instrument in jazz music.

In the hands of Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, Jimmy Raney, and Tal Farlow, who had absorbed the language of bebop, the guitar began to be seen as a “ serious ” jazz instrument.

Because he had not served at least seven years as an apprentice, the Glasgow Guild of Hammermen ( which had jurisdiction over any artisans using hammers ) blocked his application, despite there being no other mathematical instrument makers in Scotland.

The main advantage is that no dedicated instrument has to be purchased and pyrolysis can be performed as part of routine GC analysis.

A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not generally known or reasonably ascertainable, by which a business can obtain an economic advantage over competitors or customers.

Armstrong was a virtuoso on his instrument, and his solos often took advantage of that fact.

This instrument had the advantage of a large field of view and he was able to obtain precise positions of a large number of stars that transited close to the zenith over the course of about two years.

The Classic tuning shows another advantage as well: The regular tunings in fourths and fifths remain consistent in each of the two parts of the instrument ; regular tunings facilitate learning by beginners and transposition and improvisation by advanced players.

The primary advantage is that the instrument helps in the price discovery process.

Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it.

The advantage of a horizontal pendulum is that it achieves very low frequencies of oscillation in a compact instrument.

Forwards, like other derivative securities, can be used to hedge risk ( typically currency or exchange rate risk ), as a means of speculation, or to allow a party to take advantage of a quality of the underlying instrument which is time-sensitive.

SPEAK aims at using quality assurance on a new range by systematically taking advantage of the EQARF and combining it with state-of-the-art methodologies of self-evaluation, especially the SPEAK instrument.

In court Rasoul was found guilty of obtaining leave to enter the UK by deception, using a false instrument with intent, obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception, possessing false documentation and possessing articles for fraud.

A key advantage for this technology is that the instrument is not required to be in contact with the fluid – typically the source and detector are mounted on the outside of tanks or piping.

One advantage of Asian options is that these reduce the risk of market manipulation of the underlying instrument at maturity.

Fundus photography generally needs a considerably larger instrument than ophthalmography, but has the advantage of availing the image to be examined by a specialist at another location and / or time, as well as providing photo documentation for future reference.

While the airlift initially took advantage of reserve pilots who were experienced civilian airline transport pilots, most were just out of flight school or were single-engine rated with relatively little instrument time.

An advantage is that one person can perform the levelling independently, whereas other types require one person at the instrument and one holding the rod.

The advantage of an equatorial mount lies in its ability to allow the instrument attached to it to stay fixed on any object in the sky that has a diurnal motion by driving one axis at a constant speed.

The Prophet64 cartridge was recently released and features a suite of GUI-style applications for sequencing music, drum and rhythm synthesis, MIDI DIN-sync, and taking advantage of the SID chip in other ways, effectively turning the C64 into a true musical instrument that anyone can use.

' It has, in the first place, the great advantage of lightness and handiness, while its single blade, to some extent, combines the step-cutting qualities possessed by the two cutters of the ordinary double-headed axe, though the latter instrument is on the whole decidedly superior.

Taking advantage of this growth spurt, Selmer began acquiring other instrument manufacturers, including The Vincent Bach Corporation ( brass instruments ) in 1961, Glasel String Instrument Service ( violins ), the Ludwig-Musser Drum Company, and the Lesher Woodwind Company ( oboes and bassoons ) in 1967.

LCD units generate less heat than CRTs ; an advantage in a congested instrument panel.

These emitters not only solved the lifetime problem, but also provided higher electron brightness than tungsten filaments, and in the late 1960s and early 1970s he built two new SEMs for examining surfaces that took advantage of this and produced higher resolution than previous SEMs ( 3 nm in the secondary electron surface mode ) and then a short focal length instrument with 0. 5 nm beam size.

The spectrofluorometer is an instrument which takes advantage of fluorescent properties of some compounds in order to provide information regarding their concentration and chemical environment in a sample.

The advantage of using a dedicated sensor mechanism is that the instrument can be self-contained, as opposed to requiring a computer to control it when an ILDA interface and USB camera are used.