The
imprecation that forms the heart of the surviving text anticipates the pivotal moment at which Ammistamru II's troops will seize Sausga-muwa's sister and take her to her death.
Meanwhile, discovering the meaning of '
imprecation' meant I just had to call WGD, with whom I have had a close friendship but also a competitive rivalry for over 30 years.
It has been observed that the Muslim rulers who succeeded the Shilaharas and Yadavas--the Nayate, Bahmani and Adilshahi sultans--also occasionally constructed stone edicts with gaddhegal
imprecations in Marathi.
The only way to do this is through
imprecation (li'an) in Court.
You can find alternatives to Halbertal's philosophy, such as Haaretz columnist Carlos Stenger's
imprecation that, "at a moment where a man who has also killed a number of French soldiers has murdered Jews, we must remember that bigotry, fanaticism, and extremism, of which neo-Nazism and Islamic Jihadism are two forms, are worldwide problems.
(What a pity if this amazingly gifted singer were to lee technique lapse into gimmick.) Rene Pape was also playing with dynamics, but the show-offiness worked well enough or Mephistopheles, and he seemed to be enjoying himself vastly The afternoons least equivocal contributions came from three Canadians: Michele Losier couldn't have been much better as Siebel, and Russell Braun (Valentin) delivered a handsome "Avant de quitter ces lieux" and an even handsomer death
imprecation. Making all the spotty ingredients somehow cohere, Yannick Nezet-Seguin had launched the performance with a masterfully shaped prelude that seemed tatetlilly connected to the story that followed.
Heemstra relates this phenomenon of the Fiscus Judaicus to numbers of issues, including the "'enigmatic' use of the word 'Jew' or 'Jews'" in the Gospel of John, in the Letter to the Hebrews, and in the rabbis'
imprecation against heretics.
29 and 30, Alexander Alder is the first to sound the alarm in a vitriolic op-ed titled: "Towards a Fundamentalist Dictatorship in Cairo?" where he describes former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei , one of the leading opponents to Mubarak's regime, as a " polymorphous perverse", nothing less; outright
imprecation and smear proposed to readers as "rational opinion".
Neighbors might murmur a variation on the rosary
imprecation. "There's the Home Boys, God's pity on them."
In the hands of friends and admirers it was a mark of approbation, for his rivals and detractors--among whom the brothers Adam were as vicious as any--one of
imprecation. In the mid-18th century, to experience ancient Greek architecture at first hand, in the round, was, as Freart de Chambray had suggested 100 years earlier, to 'ascend to the very source of the orders', the fountain-head from which even Vitruvius had admitted--although Piranesi was doggedly to reject the idea--that Roman architecture first flowed.
He repeats the "
imprecation" in Epistola ad fratres Inferioris Germaniae (1530), ASD, 9, 1: 414, line 859, "He may go to his overlord, duke Charles of Guelders" (conferat Se licebit ad suum principem Carolum Gelriae ducem).
Recalling an ancient Chinese
imprecation: "I curse you to live in significant times," Amos observes: "In light of recent events, all of us recognize that we are really living in significant times here.
