It was John Milius who first came up with the idea of transposing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to a Vietnam war setting.
After discussing the case that morning, we walk the impressive premises while management explain the challenges of transposing this North American brand to Europe.
Transposing words or names from one language or alphabet into another is evidently an inexact science.In Indonesia, where single names are common, what appears to be just part of a name may in fact be the whole name.
Buy from Amazon.com (Books 1, 2 and 3), Amazon.co.uk (Books 1 and 2, Book 3 HARUKI MURAKAMI filches from George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" for the title of his new novel, "1Q84", making a play on kyu, the Japanese word for nine, by transposing the letter "Q" for the number "9".
When transposing EU directives into national laws, local lobbies will often push for some ambiguous wording to be used.
Distant Drums (1951) recycled the story structure from Objective, Burma!, transposing the struggle to 1840 during the Second Seminole War in the Florida Everglades.
Transposing the wires equalized the relative positions of adjacent circuits as well as the currents that they induced in one another.
Potgieter defined the historical novel, and Anna Bosboom-Toussaint put his ideas into effect, transposing the universal Christian idealism of Drost to the national Protestant faith of the Golden Age.
In early low-density telephone lines, cross talk was reduced through an ingenious and complicated method of periodically transposing the relative positions of the forward and return conductors in each pair.
Although Gershwin's burgeoning creativity was hampered by his three-year stint in "plugger's purgatory" (as Gershwin biographer Isaac Goldberg termed it), it was nevertheless an experience that greatly improved his dexterity and increased his skills at improvisation and transposing.
The intervals of this second group are not truly distinct, for they can be derived from the first three by inversion i.e., by transposing the lower note of the interval up an octave.
