Upon receiving a letter from the Emperor Gratian praising the appropriateness of Rome appointing individuals evidently worthy of holy positions, St. Ambrose's host gave Ambrose up.

However, they sent three -- Syriacus, Eusebius and Priscian -- with a synodal letter to Pope Damasus I, archbishop Saint Ambrose and the other bishops assembled in the council at Rome.

From a letter of the synod at Milan to Pope Siricius ( Ambrose, Epistle xlii ) and from Augustine's book Contra Julian.

According to a letter of Ambrose to the congregation in Vercelli two decades after Eusebius ' death, the local leaders recognized his piety and thus elected him rather than local candidates ( Epistola lxiii, Ad Vercellenses ).

The Georgian Orthodox Church was also persecuted ; over 1, 500 churches and monasteries were closed or demolished and a number of clerics were imprisoned, including Catholicos Patriarch Ambrose who was arrested and tried for having sent a letter of protest to the 1922 Genoa Conference in which he described the conditions under which Georgia was living since the Red Army invasion and begged for the " help of the civilized world ".

Controverting the third or Roman theory of origin, he lays some stress upon the fact that Pope St. Innocent I ( 416 ) in his letter to Decentius of Gubbio spoke of usages which Duchesne recognizes as Gallican ( e. g. the position of the Diptychs and the Pax ), as " foreign importations " and did not recognize in them the ancient usage of his own Church, and he thinks it hard to explain why the African Church should have accepted the Roman reforms, while St. Ambrose himself a Roman.

On arrival they received a letter from the synod of Milan, inviting them to a great general council at Rome ; they indicated that they must remain where they were, because they had not made any preparations for such long a journey ; however, they sent three — Syriacus, Eusebius, and Priscian — with a joint synodal letter to Pope Damasus, Ambrose, archbishop of Milan, and the other bishops assembled in the council at Rome.

The first evidence for his existence is found in a letter written by Saint Ambrose to Bishop Syagrius of Verona in which Ambrose refers to the holiness of Zeno.

In a letter Ambrose mentions a church which he gave in commendam, while he was Bishop of Milan: " Commendo tibi, fili, Ecclesiam quae est ad Forum Cornelii ... donec ei ordinetur episcopus " ( Epistle ii ) (" I entrust unto thee, my son, the church which is at the Cornelian Forum ... while bishop is allotted to it ").

The council sent a letter to Theodosius indicating that the condemnation of Nestorius had been agreed upon not only by the bishops of the East meeting in Ephesus but also of the bishops of the West who had convened at a synod in Rome convened by Celestine.

It is true that there is an alleged letter from the pope to the deposed Monophysite patriarchs, Anthimus, Severus, and Theodosius, in which the pope agrees with the views of the Monophysites.

The Emperor Theodosius II and his wife Aelia Eudocia greatly respected the saint and listened to his counsels, while the Emperor Leo I paid respectful attention to a letter he sent in favour of the Council of Chalcedon.

The most famous letter is the most highly finished and important piece in the collection, the celebrated epistle to " Valentinian, Theodosius, and Arcadius " entreating them to restore the Altar of Victory to its ancient position in the senate house.

A letter was sent by Theodosius to Theophilus, asking him to grant the offending pagans pardon and calling for the destruction of all pagan images, suggesting that these were at the origin of the commotion.

Jonathan's letter came, as she knew it would, and he had accepted their child's death as another judgment from God against both Kate and himself.

Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, which contains hundreds of private letters written by Thompson over the years, contains a letter in which he uses A Modest Proposals satire technique against the Vietnam War.

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans bu this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the informing him of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.

That the emperor sincerely sympathized with Alexei, and suspected Peter of harbouring murderous designs against his son, is plain from his confidential letter to George I of Great Britain, whom he consulted on this delicate affair.

In 1428, he received a letter from Yeshaq I of Ethiopia, borne by two dignitaries, which proposed an alliance against the Muslims and would be sealed by a dual marriage that would require the Infante Peter to bring a group of artisans to Ethiopia where he would marry Yeshaq's daughter.

Accordingly, Ben Adret addressed to the congregation of Montpellier a letter, signed by fifteen other rabbis, proposing to issue a decree pronouncing the anathema against all those who should pursue the study of philosophy and science before due maturity in age and in rabbinical knowledge.

On a Sabbath in September, 1304, the letter was to be read before the congregation, when Jacob Machir Don Profiat Tibbon, the renowned astronomical and mathematical writer, entered his protest against such unlawful interference by the Barcelona rabbis, and a schism ensued.

Nevertheless, SDI was against the spirit — if not the letter — of the ABM Treaty, which sought to pursue the principle of MAD.

In the letter to Wanley, Hickes responds to an apparent charge against Smith, made by Wanley, that Smith had failed to mention the Beowulf script when cataloguing Cotton MS. Vitellius A. XV.

Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.

In either case, the letter form then struck a ribbon which was pressed against the paper, printing one character at a time.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

A copy of this letter reached Constantinople where Nestorius preached a sermon against it.

As soon as he heard of the murder, the Pope ordered the legates to preach a crusade against the Cathars and wrote a letter to Phillip Augustus, King of France, appealing for his intervention — or an intervention led by his son, Louis.

After signing a letter of submission and promising never to write anything prejudicial against the religion again ( with the result that his most controversial works were henceforth published only after his death ), Diderot was released from the dungeons of the Vincennes fortress after three months.

In addition, the exclusion of any mention of the letter of Acts 15 is seen to indicate that such a letter did not yet exist, since Paul would have been likely to use it against the legalism confronted in Galatians.

* A letter to the Reverend E. B. Pusey in reference to certain charges against the German Church, ( 1842 )

On March 23, 1430, Joan of Arc dictated a letter that threatened to lead a crusading army against the Hussites unless they returned to the Catholic faith, but her capture by English and Burgundian troops two months later would keep her from carrying out this threat.

The letter warns US Jews against supporting Begin's request for funding of his political party Herut, and ends with the warning:

In 1925, Goebbels published an open letter to " my friends of the left ," urging unity between socialists and Nazis against the capitalists.

< p >... people like Jane Fonda and all the names on that letter are assisting the Palestinian propagandists against the State of Israel.

In 1938 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page an open letter to Benito Mussolini written by Kaj Munk criticising the persecutions against Jews.

Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation against the doctrine of nullification, stating: " I consider … the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.

Letter of the law is its actual implementation, thereby demonstrating that black letter law are those statutes, rules, acts, laws, provisions, etc.

According to Philip Schaff, " To the Greek acts was afterwards added a ( pretended ) letter of Pope John VIII.

For example, in the Hebrew construct-state form bēt, meaning " the house of ", the middle letter " י " in the spelling בית acts as a vowel, whereas in the corresponding absolute-state form bayit (" house "), which is spelled the same, the same letter represents a genuine consonant.

A letter Wagner wrote to Theodor Uhlig confirms that at this time the opera was intended to have three acts.

One of his most notable acts during his short time as leader of the Soviet Union was in response to a letter from a 10 year old American child from Maine named Samantha Smith, inviting her to the Soviet Union.

( This letter, adopted in response to the 1767 Townshend Acts, called for united colonial action against the acts.

Lubbers responded to the OIOS report in a letter setting out to ( a ) deny acts of sexual harassment or abuse took place ; ( b ) establish that such evidence of the alleged misconduct as is said to exist is insufficient and flawed ; and ( c ) conclude that the report itself would appear to be based on an irregular statutory basis and also flawed by errors of law and reasoning.

One example of a function that acts on non-numeric inputs takes English words as inputs and returns the first letter of the input word as output.

He was also forced to write a letter asking every Templar to admit to these acts.

In many nations, power is given to the head of state or sovereign ; in other cases, something short of a full declaration of war, such as a letter of marque or a covert operation, may authorise war-like acts by privateers or mercenaries.

In 2000, Ann Fagan Ginger wrote a letter to the president of Harvard, requesting a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to discuss the Ginger firing and other acts of Harvard against students and faculty members who had Left political leanings or membership.

" Ibsen sent the three acts to his publisher on 8 August, with a letter that explains that " Peer Gynt was a real person who lived in Gudbrandsdal, probably around the end of the last century or the beginning of this.

The letter decried acts of violence and restrictive laws against German Jews.

The council drafted a letter to William and Mary, justifying the colony's acts in language similar to that used by William in his proclamations when he invaded England.

Queen Victoria felt moved to write a personal letter to Sgt Major Coughlan on hearing about his acts of bravery.

XF ( sometimes FF ) is a letter grade used at some U. S. colleges, assigned to students who are caught performing acts of academic dishonesty.

Gnostics thus interpreted Paul's statements, that the Old Testament acts as our examples in 1 Corinthians 10: 6 and that For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life in 2 Corinthians 3: 6, as supporting this view, with understanding more important than rigid adherence.

The letter, praising Wilmot for having decided to publish the tragedy, acts as a prefacing endorsement of the play.

Although lacking in actual popular support, the letter was argued to be the among most important and influential acts of opposition during its period, and a notorious break with the tradition of strict obedience and party discipline.

One of Willis's final acts, a few days before the 1996 election, was to release ( without consulting Keating ) a letter purportedly written by the Premier of Victoria, Jeff Kennett, which suggested that a Liberal government led by John Howard would cut grants to the states.

Even a letter of admonition from Martin Luther could not dissuade him, and Kohlhase and the band he collected committed further acts of terror.

In July, 1994, six years before he, himself was legally charged with sexual abuse by a married woman, L. Craig Martindale sent a letter to the leadership ( the " Corps ") in which he stated his intention to purge, decisively, the leadership of all homosexuals, using vile language and imagery to characterize homosexuals, homosexual orientation, and certain homosexual acts.

The latter charged Valverde in a letter to the emperor, dated March 10, 1539, with arbitrary acts and insisted that instead of protecting the natives, he only mistreated them and sought to confiscate their lands, and always gave the greater part to himself and his assistant.