Sentence examples for baton form from inspiring English sources

Although Berg followed Schoenberg in abandoning conventional tonal harmony and, later, in adopting twelve-tone compositions, his works reverberate with echoes of Wagner, Strauss, and, especially, Mahler, whom Berg worshipped to the point of stealing a baton form the maestro's dressing room.

More than 100 officers — wearing helmets, gloves and vests and carrying batons — formed a wall along several blocks of Pratt Street, and began to make arrests.

Loops and β-sheets were built by first placing Cα atoms using the Baton build module.

All these batons might form, together, another human raft.

She screamed down the radio for assistance, asked one PCSO to direct the traffic, and ordered the remaining five to take out their batons and form a line to seal off the high street to would-be looters.

WHEN Ben Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan as the chairman of America's Federal Reserve earlier this year, The Economist's cover illustration depicted Mr Greenspan as a relay runner, passing on a baton, in the form of a lighted stick of dynamite, to his successor.

The first wave of student protests against the coalition was met with police batons and kettles, a form of state repression condemned by the UN as "detrimental to the exercise of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly".

Layers of titanium powder, as thick as a human hair, took 30 hours to form into the baton.

Police drew batons and linked arms to form a human barricade as protesters, some wearing masks and scarves to cover their faces, ran down Whitehall.

If Mr. Tsipras fails to form a government, the baton passes to Mr. Venizelos.

These take the form of short black batons with gilded ends, each with a representation of the badges of the different offices of the heralds.