Barre Sentence Examples

The Grand Pont, designed by the cantonal engineer, Adrien Pichard (1790--1841), was built 1839-1844, while the Barre tunnel was pierced 1851-1855 and the bridge of Chauderon was built in 1905.

This reform was justified by the religious intolerance of the parlements; by their scandalous trials of Calas, Pierre Paid Sirven (1709-1777), the chevalier de la Barre and the comte de Lally; by the retrograde spirit that had made them suppress the Encyclopaedia in 1759 and condemn Emile in.

The Iroquois were assuming a threatening attitude towards the inhabitants, and Frontenac's successor, La Barre, was quite incapable of leading an army against such cunning foes.

At the end of a year La Barre was replaced by the marquis de Denonville, a man of ability and courage, who, though he showed some vigour in marching against the western Iroquois tribes, angered rather than intimidated them, and the massacre of Lachine (5th of August 1689) must be regarded as one of the unhappy results of his administration.

The intended victim was named Annie Gauthier, of Barre.

Its briefest equivalent may be given as "persecuting and privileged orthodoxy" in general, and, more particularly, it is the particular system which Voltaire saw around him, of which he had felt the effects in his own exiles and the confiscations of his books, and of which he saw the still worse effects in the hideous sufferings of Calas and La Barre.

A portable barre was introduced for the first scene.

Maria Fay's floor barre work established good habits and strengthened the essential stabilizing reflexes needed to sustain balance and control.

When I first learned to make barre chords I had a rough time making all six strings sound clear.

His parents were poor, and after a brief period of study in the village school of Barre, he was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to a maker of "buckle chapes," or tongues.

The trial of La Barre in 1766 at Abbeville (see VOLTAIRE) is the most famous in modern times.

My soul delights in the repose and gracious curves of the Venus; and in Barre's bronzes the secrets of the jungle are revealed to me.

The site provides a guitar chord primer that teaches all about chords, but it also has a guitar codex, guitar chord dictionary, and articles on all types of chords, from power chords to barre chords to slash chords.

Depending on the type of barre and the way you install it, different methods of securing the barre are possible.

Always adhere to the safety recommendations, including on what types of surfaces to use the barres, and how many students (and of what age/size) should use any one barre at a time.

In ballet classes, the barre is used for many types of exercises, stretches, and routines.

It is common for a ballet class to be divided into half of the time spent at the barre, and half of the time being away from it.

These two sections of the class are called, respectively, barre work and center work.

While center work may not technically be in the center of the room (for example traveling exercises like series of jumps or turns), barre work is always done at the barre.

These can include a wide variety of exercises, but usually include various steps being performed in series, such as the five ballet positions on each side of the barre.

The purpose of this long period of warming up at the barre is not only to get ready for the next part of the class, it is also the time to very seriously develop one's technique.

In addition to warm-ups, stretches are often done at the barre by placing an ankle or knee on the barre and then reaching over to it or bending the standing leg to increase the stretch.

Splits can be learned by placing one leg (at the ankle) on the barre and sliding the ankle away from your standing leg.

Barre stretches are a good complement to standard floor stretches.

These combinations often include a lot of more energetic steps, such as turns and jumps, but are done at the barre in order to provide a bit of extra stability at certain points during the combination.

Regardless of the type of barre or where it is installed, ballet classes without barres are extremely rare.

When attending a ballet class, expect to start out at the barre.

Aim for the middle of the barre to have plenty of dancers all around you and a great ballet class experience.

Practice often includes barre exercises and across the floor work.

The largest granite quarries are near Barre, Washington county, a city which owes its importance to the quarries.

The Barre granites, like those of Woodbury and Calais (also in Washington county) and part of those of South Ryegate, Kirby and Newark (Caledonia county), are of the biotite type; they are grey, except the stone from Newark, which is pinkish.

Barre is the centre of the granite business, and the region about Rutland, especially Proctor, is the principal seat of the marble industry.

The principal cities are Burlington, Rutland, Barre, Montpelier (the capital) and St Albans.

The severity with which Henry treated the last rebels was regarded as a blot upon his fame; but the only case of merely vindictive punishment was that of the poet Luke de la Barre, who was sentenced to lose his eyes for a lampoon upon the king, and only escaped the sentence by committing suicide.

Volumes and almost libraries have been written on the Calas affair, and we can but refer here to the only less famous cases of Sirven (very similar to that of Calas, though no judicial murder was actually committed), Espinasse (who had been sentenced to the galleys for harbouring a Protestant minister), Lally (the son of the unjustly treated but not blameless Irish-French commander in India), D'Etalonde (the companion of La Barre), Montbailli and others.

Barre is an important seat of the granite industry, and manufactures monuments and tombstones, stone-cutting implements and other machinery.

Settled soon after the close of the War of Independence, the township of Barre (pop. in 1900, 334 6) was organized in 1793 and named in honour of Isaac Barre (1726-1802), a defender of American rights in the British parliament.

There are also semi-state institutions for the insane at Waverley, Barre, Wrentham and Baldwinville, and nineteen small private institutions, all under the supervision of the state board of insanity.

Junius wrote of him, "As for Mr Wedderburn, there is something about him which even treachery cannot trust," and Colonel Barre attacked him in the House of Commons.

It has been frequently reprinted, and in the edition of De la Barre, 1580, is accompanied by some notes on the Gospels by the same author.

It is dedicated to St Fin Barre or Finbar, who founded the original cathedral in the 7th century.

By proposing to allow the president of the Assembly to call in armed force, the questors revealed the Assembly's plans for defence, and gave the Elysee a weapon against it ("donnent barre contre elle a l'Elysee").