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When a majority of the Catholic Committee favoured more assertive measures, Kenmare, and sixty-eight others who sympathized with him, seceded from its ranks. This was in 1791. The committee then chose for its leader John Keogh, a Dublin merchant and a man who favoured bolder measures and a decisive tone. Instead of begging for small concessions ...
Los Angeles is a city of immigrants, and I know that immigrants are being disparaged right now," McDonnell told the council, striking a more decisive tone than he did in answering some of the same ...
He also feared that, if a county meeting was called, his presence would be "extremely awkward" as he "could not avoid taking a decisive tone in supporting reform or I should be considered as a trimmer by the reformers; and if I did take a decisive tone I should offend many of the old Blue party". However, no meeting took place. [2]
The second tone was not the 'goal' of the first. Instead, musicians avoided the half step in clausulas because, to their ears, it lacked clarity as an interval. Beginning in the 13th century, cadences begin to require motion in one voice by half step and the other a whole step in contrary motion.
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The debate answer and subsequent ad campaign was later described as decisive both by journalists and members of both campaigns. [ 4 ] On election night, the headliners on the Republican ticket, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina , were soundly defeated by Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer , with Democrats having a healthy margin to declare victory in ...
Meantone refers to meantone temperament, where the whole tone is the mean of the major third. In general, a meantone is constructed in the same way as Pythagorean tuning, as a stack of fifths: the tone is reached after two fifths, the major third after four, so that as all fifths are the same, the tone is the mean of the third.
A philippic refers to a type of speech that is negative in tone and one that is comparable to a rant or a tirade. [ 1 ] This speech is said to have been Demosthenes' first powerful speech that he made in his lifetime; his earlier speeches were weak in tone and argument, as a result of which he had to practice over the years in order to produce ...