Now a new book reveals how, in the years leading up to the US Civil War, the German immigrant CF Martin transformed a European instrument into what would become one of the great American icons.
In their vision -- some would say pipe dream -- soccer would be transformed into an instrument of international healing as Mr. Berger and Mr. Oliu -- who works for Merrill Lynch -- propose bringing Palestinian and Israeli youths together to participate in soccer camps.
Romm's fury over her mother's cancer is magnetic, with the power to both repel and attract, and here it is transformed into an instrument for pursuing truth.
The lack of engagement of the aged, Beauvoir notes, is in part imposed from without and in part comes from within; for as we age, the body is transformed from an instrument that engages the world into a hindrance that makes our access to the world difficult.
Various types of NIR and MIR instruments are classified as filter-based instruments, monochromator-based instruments, Fourier transform instruments, and other instruments.
He's run a technological experimentation blog called 'Work In Progress' since the fall of 2013, created such crazy contraptions as a code to transform a camera into a musical instrument, and even made a fully-automated stop and frisk robot.
Their vaunted success trading stocks, bonds and other instruments has helped to transform a cottage industry into a behemoth; today hedge funds oversee more than $2.1 trillion.
In the mid-1990s the state police force suddenly had to transform itself from an instrument of political repression into a crime-fighting force.
Ms. Netrebko's gorgeous voice does not easily transform itself into an instrument of vehemence, yet the ill-fated queen's final utterances seethe with disdain.
The Nucor system was forged by Kenneth Iverson (1925 2002), who transformed a failing nuclear instruments company into a hugely successful chain of steel minimills.
