The Five Star Brass Navy Band Northwest Brass Quintet provided a musical prelude to the Opening Session. |
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Senior aides say containment is a modest and achievable goal, a prelude to more progress. |
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This time last year few thought things could get any worse and that an early summer soaking would be the prelude to a flaming June. |
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This is a good choice for groups who do prelude or postlude music at church services or other functions. |
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This year officials are hoping for a more conventional Saturday cracker night as a prelude to two final races on the Sunday. |
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As a prelude to the book, Dr Mitra has compiled an audio CD of some of the works that will appear in the forthcoming book. |
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A great babble of voices all rose to a crescendo of sound that could only be the prelude to panic. |
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The channel will telecast exclusive footage on Nikita on June 1 at 9 p.m. as a prelude to the telecast of the event. |
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The Lubavitcher Rebbe emphasizes that these remarkable events are merely a prelude to the final redemption. |
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The suites mostly have four short movements, a prelude or allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue, with some variants. |
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He may have been prey to last-minute doubts, but the more likely explanation was that his visit was a prelude to an approval. |
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As prelude to his main argument, he rejects both Marxism and anarchism as potential solutions to the world's problems. |
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I ask these not as rhetorical questions and not as a prelude to an intelligent statement that explains exactly how it ends. |
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For the less strong, it can be a torment and a prelude to personal disaster. |
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This is a prelude to the enforcement steps which can then be taken to compel payment of any arrears. |
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Nullification, the prelude principle to secessionism, was put forth by Jefferson, the grandfather to neoliberals. |
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This work is regarded as an important prelude to examining this phase change at the molecular level. |
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Hurried, resounding strains of a Rachmaninoff prelude are abruptly cut short. |
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From the opening orchestral prelude, the depth and intensity of Bloch's vision of the Old Testament roll over the listener. |
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Anyway, all of that was the prelude to my slightly unprofessional response to that group this afternoon. |
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Carols played by a brass band always provide a popular and evocative prelude to Christmas. |
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There is a long orchestral prelude, and the orchestra plays an extremely important role throughout. |
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The foundation of Hopkins' spirituality, can reasonably be regarded as an indispensable prelude to a deep instress of his poetic inscape. |
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It is understood as a prelude, the necessary prelude, to embarking on some course of action. |
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A slight nudge or unintentional push might well be a prelude to an exchange of oral abuse or fist fights. |
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For them, my party was just the prelude to a hard night of cold, illegal work pasting posters on the walls of Friedrichshain. |
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During the big pauses between each of the short, sobbing phrases at the opening of the Tristan prelude, you could have heard a pin drop. |
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The orchestral prelude of the work isn't necessarily my favorite and part of why I find the piece itself fraught with a few problems. |
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His subtractive procedure is the ruthless evacuation of everything taken-for-granted as a prelude to the construction of a new Good. |
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The superficiality of this interview is an ironic prelude to the depths we will watch the characters experience later. |
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Fugal procedures also permeate the fine passacaglia of the twelfth prelude, in G minor. |
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It's easy to believe that downsizing staff is merely a prelude to a company-wide implosion. |
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As a prelude to the main event, the team will walk the 25 km from Changi Prison to Tanjung Pagar Railway Station in Singapore. |
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That, though, was just a prelude to the disastrous events that have befallen the new school. |
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The Woodland Trust, as a prelude to National Tree Week, is holding family planting events from November 18-23 in its Tree For All initiative. |
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The state of emergency is a prelude to the introduction of a raft of measures presented to parliament on Tuesday in an 80-clause Bill. |
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I think of Thanksgiving as a prelude to the big event of December and all the wonderful foods I will undoubtedly be consuming. |
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The original 1857 orchestral prelude is only rarely being heard these days and so the Chailly CD is a true gem for connoisseurs of Verdi operas. |
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The prelude of the first suite was played dizzyingly fast but without any perceptible regular pulse, as was that of the fifth suite. |
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One clue was provided by Bach himself in his C minor cello suite, which begins with a prelude and fugue for solo cello. |
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In the statements he made yesterday, Moussa indicated that the September ministerial meeting could prelude the Arab summit. |
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We open with an orchestral prelude presenting the natural world in what seems to be Edenic bliss. |
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Surrounded by an introduction and an afterword, the narratives are organized into three sections, with a small prelude to each section. |
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Did he not say that Germany's suffering in WW I was a prelude to a greater victory and a rebirth for the nation? |
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Hopefully it forms a brief diversion from the main action, and a prelude to the character development and genuinely shocking revelations of the third volume. |
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This story first appears in Anglo-Norman before 1330 and becomes rapidly attached as a prelude to many of the French, Latin, and English versions of the Brut. |
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A contest and talent hunt will be held as a prelude to the event. |
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There was an entryway near here to another courtyard, itself a prelude to the heart of the main temple. |
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Marguerite hoped it would be the prelude to a book she wanted to write, and asked if I could get it published somewhere. |
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As is, they now look ominously instead like that monopoly's prelude and farcical first act. |
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In any structure, you can obtain cable service, you can connect a flat-screen television, you can watch the Yankees and the Mariners as prelude to a subway series. |
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Is this a ritual dance, a prelude to the consummation of a deal? |
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Maybe this is the prelude to some sort of Nietzschean ascension. |
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But the prelude tantalises in what it reveals, and represses. |
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King opts for slower tempos than expected, illuminating every stately arpeggio in the opening instrumental prelude until the explosive entry of the voices. |
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On display will be dazzling jewellery from virtually every nook and cranny of the country that will be a prelude to the fall wedding season and festivities. |
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The first version of the play used the story line of a senior official's abduction by a Mafia boss as a prelude to the main plot which satirized politicians and gangsters. |
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But while the congressmen squabbled amongst themselves and berated the witnesses, this all felt like prelude. |
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But the histrionics in that caucus are simply a prelude to an ultimate cave. |
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It is really a prelude to the consummation of the marriage, which takes place typically at the end of the evening, or, in rural areas, at the end of several days' celebration. |
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The darkly resonant tones of the lower strings in the opening Largo were a prelude to the precise, crisp attack of the violins in the succeeding Allegro molto. |
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A strike on Syria is not a prelude to a decade-long counterinsurgency campaign with 100,000 U.S. forces on the ground. |
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This was all just prelude to the cloud of monkeys that not long after passed like a vast red-faced brownness through our little patch of blue sky. |
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As a prelude to this invasion a dummy run had taken place in 1942 when the Allies launched a major air raid on Diepe on the northern coast of France. |
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The prelude to this is the acknowledgement that all people are equal in the sight of God, which is the enduring logic for the juridical equality of all citizens. |
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This is a far cry from Corbon's more simplistic description of the Eucharistic canon as prelude, liturgy of the word, anaphora, communion, and finale. |
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But unlike chill-out discs that serve mainly as sedate background ambience, Lost Horizons is a trip's prelude that opens the gates to enchantment. |
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The programme consisted of the prelude to Die Meistersinger, music by Bach, Mozart, Elgar and Liszt, and finally Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. |
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I was not burned at the stake like a meanling. And I did not, as prelude to my death, say the cute things that are attributed to me. |
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Meeting his doom so, the great hazarder fulfils a destiny for which his whole life was prelude. |
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A prelude to the Age of Discovery was a series of European expeditions crossing Eurasia by land in the late Middle Ages. |
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The anthem of the Union is an instrumental version of the prelude to the Ode to Joy, the 4th movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's ninth symphony. |
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In 1450, there was a violent popular revolt in Kent, Jack Cade's Rebellion, which is often seen as the prelude to the Wars of the Roses. |
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To his opponents in Parliament this seemed like a prelude to arbitrary rule, so James prorogued Parliament without gaining Parliament's consent. |
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From July until September 1940 the Luftwaffe attacked RAF Fighter Command to gain air superiority as a prelude to invasion. |
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After the Communion service is interrupted, the anthem Come, Holy Ghost is recited, as a prelude to the act of anointing. |
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He was mathematically gifted and won a double first degree, which could have been the prelude to a brilliant academic career. |
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This was a prelude to filing its IPO listing application with the Philippine Stock Exchange. |
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Pevsner regarded the style as a prelude to Modernism, which used simple forms without ornamentation. |
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Tyrwhitt proposed a more ambitious operation to capture the mole and the town, as a prelude to advancing on Antwerp. |
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This is a prelude intended to evoke the atmosphere of the legend by its sound. |
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The dramatic prelude to the war occurred largely in Frankfurt, where the two powers claimed to speak for all the German states in the parliament. |
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Admiralty courts were a prominent feature in the prelude to the American Revolution. |
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Shankar opened with a sensitive alap section, the unaccompanied prelude that ruminates upon the melodic materials of each raga. |
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Well, not the turkey, obviously, which you will be eating cold as a prelude to enjoying it in rissoles, curry, sandwiches and broth. |
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They will serve as a semantical prelude to the contemporary field of meaning. |
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We should hope this only sounds like a prelude to an intervention. |
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So when we play Ottoman muwashaht, you're supposed to start with the prelude and go the end with the postlude. |
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Five, a C-class share without voting rights as a prelude to a stock split benefits only Brin, Page and Schmidt, now that Blondie has flown the coop to run Yahoo. |
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A prelude to this latter division appears in the separation of Malcolm and Donalbain, who flee for protection in different directions to England and Ireland. |
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This volume publishes the proceedings of a symposium held in Chicago in September 1990 as a prelude to the Fourth International Congress of Demotists. |
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Immediate planned work will include a programme of geomechanics and monitoring at the mine site as a prelude to obtaining permission to remove water from the mine. |
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The February concert opens with the prelude to Wagner's Die Meistersinger. |
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The Kushan period is a fitting prelude to the Age of the Guptas. |
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The Cardiff Games introduced the Queen's Baton Relay, which has been conducted as a prelude to every British Empire and Commonwealth Games ever since. |
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Some island and union groups opposed the tendering process, fearing it would lead to cuts in services and could be a prelude to full privatisation. |
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In the Marvelverse, mutants are potential victims of hate crimes and of state-sponsored pogroms, and of the sort of bureaucratic prying that is often a prelude to the latter. |
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Confident that Caesar could be stopped by legal means, Pompey's party tried to strip Caesar of his legions, a prelude to Caesar's trial, impoverishment, and exile. |
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Such is the prelude to the arrival on the scene of a principal character in early Coptic Studies, Guillaume Bonjour, an Augustinian monk from Toulouse in southern France. |
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Republican mores and traditions started to decline during the imperial period, with civil wars becoming a prelude common to the rise of a new emperor. |
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