Sentence examples for rus it from inspiring English sources

Kharkiv was intended to be a real rather than a ceremonial capital, but unlike Kiev, the rival Ukrainian People's Republic's capital and the historic capital of Kievan Rus, it lacked big, declarative public buildings.

5.24pm BST Women's middleweight title: Claressa Shields (USA) v Nadezda Torlopova (RUS) It's worth staying with this report for the final bout of the session as Claressa Shields - just 17 and the last remaining American fighter at these Olympics - fights Nadezda Torlopova, the world No2 and world bronze medallist from Russia.

When it wheels out the wonderfully realistic drawings he did in 1917 of Stravinsky and other luminaries of the Ballets Russes, it almost seems to be reassuring its more conservative patrons: "Look!

Written for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, it was inspired by an ancient Greek tale of two children, raised by shepherds, who fall in love.

The Kingdom of Rus, as it was originally known, came about as a synthesis of human groups and cultural characteristics that seemed as fit to go together as fire and water.

The W8 [wait] was the name of the research project commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Health to evaluate the effectiveness of the school-based alcohol intervention, "Unge & Rus", as it is implemented among all 8th grade students in Oslo, the capital of Norway.

Diaghilev renamed it "Les Sylphides" when the Ballets Russes performed it in Paris in 1909, using a new orchestration by several composers, including Stravinsky.

A century after the original Ballets Russes production, it's good to know that the Rite still has the power to shock.

Winnaretta commissioned Stravinsky to write the burlesque ballet Renard for her salon, but the Ballets Russes premiered it in 1922.

"Rus felt that it would open up a lot of creative possibilities," said Mr. Hofmann.

It's a non-stop job, heading up the largest lab on MIT's Cambridge, Massachusetts campus and, from the looks of it, Rus never rests.