Sentence examples for instruments long from inspiring English sources

He wrote pieces that contrasted Japanese and western instruments, long before the word "fusion" was bandied about to cover everything from Algerian rai to Aboriginal didgeridoo samplings for car adverts.

Several esteemed science journals, including Nature, have suggested that the Libyan children were infected in just this manner, through the re-use of incompletely cleaned medical instruments, long before the Bulgarian nurses arrived in Libya.

Adopting the name Kraftwerk ("power plant"), Hütter, Schneider, and a series of collaborators forged an austere sound and image as part of a small but highly influential cult of German bands who experimented with electronic instruments long before it was fashionable.

A new generic taxonomy shows continuity as substantive policy instruments long used by governments evolve into procedural instruments.

Had the ratings agencies been exercising more diligence, many experts argue, they would have alerted investors of the riskiness of these controversial financial instruments long before they became a problem.

The problem of the investor is to design a technology portfolio to invest in that maximizes its expected returns and limits risks, while the manager has to design a portfolio of financial/physical instruments (long-term contracts, futures, etc).

Using parent-rated instruments, long-term maintenance of the beneficial effect of LDX in multiple domains of health-related quality of life and functional impairment was demonstrated by comparison of treatment continuation and withdrawal under randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled conditions.

He began teaching himself to play drums at 13, but he had lost his heart to the instrument long before then.

The title of the current show refers to the guitar's feminine form -- the same neck and curves that inspired Watteau and Picasso -- that still shapes the instrument long after amplification became a fact.

"If it's thrown away by someone who doesn't know better, you've deprived four, five, six generations of people yet to be born who would play this instrument long after you're gone," Mr. Harrell said from Houston, where he teaches at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.

By all accounts, Mr. André was to the trumpet what Jean-Pierre Rampal was to the flute or Pablo Casals to the cello: a player whose instrument, long considered a mainstay of the orchestral ark, became, in his hands, the fleet, dazzling tool of a concerto soloist.