Daniel Huck, the saxophonist, played light, bunched-up lines redolent of jazz from the early 1930s, and brought its ancient disposition to life.
So how will these two competing tendencies that comprise our evolved tribal psychology – one an ancient disposition to produce lots of different cultures, the other an ability to extend honorary relative status to others even in large groupings – play out in our modern, interconnected and globalised world?
LAST winter, the Department of the Interior issued regulations for the disposition of ancient American Indian remains and funerary objects that cannot be affiliated with modern tribes.
This paper investigated the pedestrian-level air quality at a common building disposition in Chinese ancient cities, namely a U-type street canyon.
The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth".
But, for those of a nervous disposition, the tying of an ancient greenhouse warming to an ancient mass extinction might suggest lessons for the future.
On several occasions, Li received a rare disposition to lecture inside the ancient walls of the Forbidden City, in Beijing.
Ancient cities normally have some special building dispositions to reduce the penetration of cold wind in winter, which, however, may impact adversely on air pollutant dilution today.
Disposition of solid waste is an ancient public health problem made more pressing in the 21st century by population growth, increases in per capita waste production, scarcity of suitable locations for waste disposal near cities, and changes in the composition of waste (Melosi 2005).
Yet, although his authorship of the design is evident throughout the pulpit, the individual dispositions of the various assisting sculptors toward ancient Roman or Gothic forms is equally obvious; the separate strains of the two traditions that Pisano had so successfully united in the Pisa pulpit again reassert their independence at Siena.
The suffering of the Armenians and Jews is surely something beyond tears, a tragedy that should remain engraved in history forever – despite our disposition to lose interest in the crimes of ancient history.
