Sentence examples for upon the sound from inspiring English sources

In the last few years, though, artists such as Macy Gray, D'Angelo, and Erykah Badu have drawn upon the sound and the spirit of early-seventies soul and funk with considerable commercial success.

This legal principle has been upheld by all courts and is based upon the sound rationale adopted by Congress that there should be only one representative for a failed institution, the F.D.I.C. Uninsured depositors, to date, have received the insured portion of their deposits and nearly 70 percent of their uninsured monies.

The influence of several contemporary bands was deemed apparent upon the sound of the album.

Given the iconic stature bestowed upon The Sound of Music (heretofore referred to as SOM), I'm sure you'll all be familiar with the scene to which I shall now make reference.

Caetano and his fellow tropicalistas, who also came to include, crucially, the producer and arranger Rogério Duprat and the members of the band Os Mutantes (the Mutants), seized upon the sound-studio experimentation and lyrical aspiration of "neo-rock," as they called it.

After all, even ducklings that develop in an incubator, with no prenatal exposure to mother's quacks, immediately prefer upon hatching the sound of a mallard call over that of any other bird.

All of the participants in this experiment, as well as those in subsequent experiments, reported normal or corrected-to-normal vision and normal hearing and were able to detect the auditory stimulus used in the experiment upon hearing the sound examples.

For each of 634 proposed sound changes in the 23 languages, we calculated the probabilities that the regular and sporadic change models assigned to the descendant sound, conditional upon the ancestral sound.

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When the instrument was finished, he played upon it the sounds his beloved steed once made as it galloped over vast green steppe, whinnied on a frosty starlit night, or snorted and shook dew from its mane in the first rays of the morning sun.

Beatty turned west upon hearing the sounds of gunfire and spotted the German battlecruisers only 8500 yards away.