So that's why when I left the series in " Terminus " I decided to drop my skirt as a parting gesture to all those fans who had written in.

Today, the hand-kiss is sometimes used as a romantic gesture, usually in parting and usually initiated by a man.

Before departing, Starscream shot at the Ark as a petty parting gesture, causing a small tremor that knocked Optimus Prime into the path of the reconstruction beam, allowing the Autobots to be restored, and the war to continue on Earth.

Page is commonly associated with the " Self High Five " as well as the " Diamond Cutter " symbol, a hand gesture made by joining the thumbs and index fingers on each hand to form a diamond shape, then parting the two hands in one swift motion.

As a parting gesture he created a life size chocolate replica of Robert Lloyd.

No explicit evidence of Magoon's corruption ever surfaced, but his parting gesture of issuing lucrative Cuban contracts to U. S. firms was a continued point of contention.

Caroline wrote to her daughter of her " indescribable " sadness at the parting.

: A gisaeng ( Korean geisha ) named Hongrang, who lived in the middle of the Joseon Dynasty, wrote the poem " By the willow in the rain in the evening ", which she gave to her parting lover ( Choi Gyeong-chang ).

On his trip back to Britain in 1904, having finished his term as Canada's Governor General, Lord Minto wrote in his journal "... so our life in Canada is over and it has been a great wrench parting from so many friends and leaving a country which I love, and which has been very full of interest to me ".

In a parting, " valedictory " letter to Lord Haldane, he wrote:

In her autobiography Mary Leakey wrote that because of Louis's involvement with the Calico Hills site that she had lost academic respect for him and that the Calico excavations was " catastrophic to his professional career and was largely responsible for the parting of our ways ".

Litten wrote a few parting words and that he had decided to take his life.

Rumors of an early parting of Lehmann arose, who was viewed critically by both supporters and critics.

Cloud made an interesting statement in parting from his client: `` I wanted to be a lawyer, and Mrs. Wright wanted me to be an avenging angel.

They were both so young, after all, so unready for any final parting.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

Cousin Emma is alone in that big old house and won't hear to parting from it.

However, the parting was amicable as Kahn remained on the Borland board until November 7, 1996, when he resigned from that position.

Jen hides her mastery of martial arts from her teacher, Jade Fox, which leads both to their parting of ways and to Jade Fox's attempt on Jen's life.

One such poem with insight to the reasons of his parting with " Lesbia " is poem 11, which is addressed to his companions Furius and Aurelius and requests them simply to pass a farewell insult to Lesbia.

DeMille was, however, adept at directing " thousands of extras ", and many of his pictures included spectacular set pieces, such as the parting of the Red Sea in both versions of The Ten Commandments, the toppling of the pagan temple in Samson and Delilah, train wrecks in The Road to Yesterday, Union Pacific and The Greatest Show on Earth, and the destruction of a zeppelin in Madame Satan.

In 1790 with his apprenticeship nearing its end, Thompson made the unusual request of a set of surveying tools in place of the typical parting gift of fine clothes offered by the company to those completing their indenture.

After parting company with Jameson, Brewster started the Edinburgh Journal of Science in 1824, 16 volumes of which appeared under his editorship during the years 1824 – 1832, with very many articles from his own pen.

Neither Polycarp nor Anicetus persuaded the other, but they did not consider the matter schismatic either, parting in peace and leaving the question unsettled.

Although mythical elements are not so prominent in Exodus as in Genesis, the echoes of ancient legends are crucial to understanding the book's origins and purpose: for example, the story of the infant Moses's salvation from the Nile has its basis in an earlier legend of king Sargon, while the story of the parting of the Red Sea trades on Mesopotamian creation mythology.

However, after parting company with Carla, Max remains distant in his relationship with his wife and son.

They all must be properly aligned, they must be designed so the metal and the flash will flow properly and fill all the grooves, and special considerations must be made for supporting webs and ribs and the parting line location.

Perpetrators of espionage have been known to find many ways of conning unsuspecting individuals into parting, often only temporarily, from their possessions, enabling others to access and steal information.

On a prospecting trip downriver with a load of goods, Audubon joined up with Shawnee and Osage hunting parties, learning their methods, drawing specimens by the bonfire, and finally parting " like brethren.

After parting from Prince Andrew following his return from the Falklands War, she was married to Tim Jefferies between 1986 and 1990.

The rubric in the Book of Needs ( priest's service book ) states, " With respect to the Services said at the parting of the soul, we note that if time does not permit to read the whole Canon, then customarily just one of the prayers, found at the end of the Canon, is read by the Priest at the moment of the parting of the soul from the body.

Beria's bodyguards reported that their orders included handing each girl a flower bouquet as she left Beria's house, with the implication being that to accept his parting gift made her his consensual mistress ; those who refused risked being arrested.

Common distinguishing characteristics include crystal structure and habit, hardness, lustre, diaphaneity, colour, streak, tenacity, cleavage, fracture, parting, and specific gravity.

In general, parting is caused by some stress applied to a crystal.

Minerals that often display parting include the pyroxenes, hematite, magnetite, and corundum.

He therefore assembled the tribes, and delivered to them a parting address, which is taken to form the Book of Deuteronomy.

Zubrin remained committed to the strategy, and after parting with David Baker attempted to convince the new NASA administration of Mars Direct's merits in 1992.

* Science fiction author Bruce Sterling wrote a story, Maneki-neko, in which the cat-paw gesture is the sign of a secret AI-based gift economy.

The impresario Count Francesco Zambeccari wrote of his performance in Naples in 1715: " Senesino continues to comport himself badly enough ; he stands like a statue, and when occasionally he does make a gesture, he makes one directly the opposite of what is wanted ".

Worsley wrote that the Norwegian seamen at Stromness all " claimed the honour of helping to haul her up to the wharf ", a gesture which was " quite affecting ".

" Heresy of all heresies ," Lieberman wrote in The News, " it would be wonderful if, as a symbolic gesture, the societies some day put windows in their buildings.

In 1614 Sultan Ahmed I wrote Sigismund III that he was sending Ahmed Pasha to punish “ those bandits ”, that this was not meant as a gesture of hostility to the Commonwealth, and that he asked of him not to be a host to fugitives ; Ahmed Pasha wrote hetman Żółkiewski asking for cooperation.

Simon Leys, in a letter to the New York Review of Books, wrote: " Either you believe in the supernatural effect of this gesture – and then you should dearly wish for it.

Parker also said he and Stone purposely wrote the episode to present Jesus as the hero from a " humanist approach "; Clasquin said this is demonstrated by the fact that Jesus becomes caught up in people's expectations for the fight and becomes offended when people bet against him: " This satirical gesture beautifully draws attention to the sheer humanity of Jesus.

In 1866, Pope Pius IX wrote a short memorandum ordering the Augustinian friars to surrender the icon to the Redemptorist priests, on condition that the Redemptorists must supply the Augustinians with another picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Help or a good copy of the icon in exchange as a gesture of goodwill.

This group of scientists wrote: " we believe Generation Rescue ’ s advertisement, at first appearance an innocuous gesture of appreciation, may actually mislead the public into thinking that the mercury – autism hypothesis has stronger support in the scientific literature than it actually does.

The authors wrote to Prime Minister Tony Blair asking for Britain to make a gesture of regret to Slovenia for sending back the surrendered soldiers.

In August 2011, wrote to Farida Singh, the daughter of the deceased Civilian pilot made this gesture via email, expressing his condolences.

For example, in a symbolic gesture all tracks were credited to every member of the band regardless of who actually wrote them.