While Salieri followed the precepts set forth by Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi in the preface to Alceste ; Salieri also drew on some musical ideas from the more traditional opera-seria and even opera buffa, creating a new synthesis in the process.

A Plague Inflicted on Israel While Eating the Quail ( illustration from the 1728 Figures de la Bible )

While he is known as DeMille ( his nom d ' oeuvre ), his family name was Dutch and is usually spelled " de Mil ".

While the presence of a long-term professional minister has sometimes created " significant de facto ministerial authority " and led to conflict between the minister and the elders, the eldership has remained the " ultimate locus of authority in the congregation ".

While the Expresión en Corto International Film Festival is the largest competitive film festival in Mexico, specializing in emerging talents, and is held each year during the last week of July in the two colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato.

While largely left out of the thrust for increasing rights of citizens, as the question was left indeterminate in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, activists such as Pauline Léon and Théroigne de Méricourt agitated for full citizenship for women.

While describing how the Bible predicts Muhammad, he speaks of the " Gospel of Saint Barnabas where one can find the light " (" y así mismo en Evangelio de San Bernabé, donde se hallará la luz ").

While staying at the Grand Hotel et de Milan in Milan, Verdi had a stroke on 21 January 1901.

While in Môtiers, Rousseau wrote the Constitutional Project for Corsica ( Projet de Constitution pour la Corse, 1765 ).

While taking a morning walk on the estate of the marquis René Louis de Girardin at Ermenonville ( 28 miles northeast of Paris ), Rousseau suffered a hemorrhage and died, aged 66.

While at Berlin he made several visits to the Netherlands, in 1684, 1686, and 1688, chiefly for the purpose of superintending the printing of several of his works, including the Traité de la Vérité, 1684.

While independence was being reclaimed, the election of King Gustav of the Vasa at Strängnäs on June 6, 1523, has been seen as a formal declaration of independence, and as the de facto end of a union that had lost all long-term support in Sweden.

While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.

While serving the government as a silent weapon against political adversaries or dangerous writers and as a means of punishing culprits of high birth without the scandal of a lawsuit, the lettres de cachet had many other uses.

While marching north again, Malcolm was ambushed by Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria, whose lands he had devastated, near Alnwick on 13 November 1093.

While anchored in Dungeness Bay on the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, third lieutenant Joseph Baker made an observation of Mount Baker, which Vancouver recorded in his journal:

While studying these languages, Abel published his first notable work in 1824, Mémoire sur les équations algébriques où on démontre l ' impossibilité de la résolution de l ' équation générale du cinquième degré ( Memoir on algebraic equations, in which the impossibility of solving the general equation of the fifth degree is proven ).

While developing Santa Fe as a trade center, the returning settlers founded Albuquerque in 1706 from existing surrounding communities, naming it for the viceroy of New Spain, Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque.

* While returning from Italy in 1576 Edward de Vere first encountered a cavalry division outside of Paris that was being led by a German duke and then pirates in the English Channel.

While the original proofs of Hadamard and de la Vallée-Poussin are long and elaborate, and later proofs have introduced various simplifications through the use of Tauberian theorems but remained difficult to digest, a surprisingly short proof was discovered in 1980 by American mathematician Donald J. Newman.

While there, Honorius ruled that the Bishop of St Andrews was to be subject to the Archbishop of York and in the more contentious issue, he attempted to circumvent his way around the problem by declaring that Thurstan was subject to William de Corbeil, not in his role as Archbishop of Canterbury, but as papal legate for England and Scotland.

While there are process theologies that are similar, but unrelated to the work of Whitehead ( such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ) the term is generally applied to the Whiteheadian / Hartshornean school.

While red tides in the Gulf of Mexico have been occurring since the time of early explorers such as Cabeza de Vaca, it is unclear what initiates these blooms and how large a role anthropogenic and natural factors play in their development.

While in prison, Richard wrote Ja nus hons pris or Ja nuls om pres (" No man who is imprisoned "), which is addressed to his half-sister Marie de Champagne.

While the official capital of Bolivia is Sucre and it is the seat of Justice, La Paz has more government departments, hence the " de facto " qualifier.

While Gianni Paladini remained chairman of the football club, Alejandro Agag, as chairman of QPR Holdings ( the parent company ) was the de facto chairman, until he was replaced by Flavio Briatore in early February 2008.

While leaving Nandgram, Krishna declares that Yashoda would always be designated as his de facto mother.

While the pyramid has become the de facto way to represent the hierarchy, Maslow himself never used a pyramid to describe these levels in any of his writings on the subject.

While the colonies above were generally artificially carved creations, Haut commissaires also were appointed by Paris to prepare the ( de facto ) independence of pre-existing monarchies that had formally been French protectorates, such as:

While Banda was technically nominated as Minister of Land, Natural Resources and Local Government, he became de facto Prime Minister of Nyasaland — a title granted to him formally on 1 February 1963.

While debates aren't constitutionally mandated, it is often considered a de facto election process.

While some have speculated that shipping the " Rampage " might have saved 3dfx, the fact remains that the company never mastered the new concept of relatively cheap, high-performance designs with integrated 3D acceleration, which was rapidly becoming the de facto standard of PC graphics vise 2D.

: While the U. S. Constitution has a clause that states " No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed " the Confederate Constitution adds a phrase to protect slavery.

While Hamilton had played first, the club was on strike, making the St. Pats-Canadiens semi-final the de facto final.

While most Taishanese today use Mandarin in school or formal occasions, Taishanese is the de facto language.

While the first war was mainly fought for nationalism, after the de facto independence of Ichkeria, much of the Chechen forces were jihadis, such as the Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya.

While the Lone Star remained the de facto state flag, from 1879 until 1933 there was no official state flag.

While de facto being an exploited category, en masse it lacks the revolutionary drive.

While the Republic of Armenia does not legally distinguish between the two forms in declaring " Armenian " to be its official language, its de facto official language is Eastern Armenian, as all spheres of life in the country ( including government, education, and the media ) use that form almost exclusively.

While privately owned, the Bank-i-Melli was given power over currency regulation and acted as a de facto government organisation.

While the Swann decision addressed de jure segregation in the South, it failed to address de facto segregation which persisted elsewhere in the country.

While the Presidium of the VTsIK never officially gave a final approval for this renaming, de facto the name has changed.

While development is not presently planned for all of this corridor, the agreement provides de facto zoning rules should it take place.

While some advocate this solution for ideological reasons, others feel simply that, due to the reality on the ground, it is the de facto situation.

While numerous proposals and agreement papers were generated between the two powers, Russia continued the de facto annexation of territory through fortification and garrison, if not de jure while employing stalling tactics in its negotiations.

While insurrectionists stormed the Tuileries Palace, King Louis XVI fled with the royal family, and his authority as King was suspended by the Legislative Assembly ; a de facto executive was named, but the actual power of decision-making rested with the revolutionary Commune, whose strength resided in the mobilized sans-culottes, the vast majority of Paris ' fairly poor population.

While claimed by Spain, no nation exercised de facto control over the community there for some time.