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In a letter from the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns to Congress, the administration said it had determined that UNFPA ’ s support for China ’ s population program “ facilitates ( its ) government ’ s coercive abortion program ”, thus violating the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which bans the use of United States aid to finance organizations that support or take part in managing a program of coercive abortion of sterilization.
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Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.
And indeed, his postcard did draw from Walter a letter recommending his friend, the poet Nicolas Manas, to his friend Meredith Wilder.
nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.
It purports to be a letter from Steele to a friend at court, who, in Miss Blanchard's opinion, could only be meant as Swift.
He closes his `` letter '' by demanding that Dunkirk be demolished, that the Pretender be forced to move farther away from the coast of England, and that the Queen and the House of Hanover come to a better understanding.
The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.
She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.
After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.
A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.
Sturley on November 4 answered a letter from Quiney written on October 25 which imported, wrote Sturley, `` that our countriman Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us monei: which I will like of as I shall heare when, wheare & howe: and I prai let not go that occasion if it mai sort to ani indifferent condicions.
A fascinating letter has just reached this desk from a correspondent who likes to receive so-called junk mail.
John's thoughts raced painfully into the past as he read the letter he had just received from his sister Mary.
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.
The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.
On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.
In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.
So wrote a ten year old student in a letter to his parents from North Country School, Lake Placid, New York.
I would tell them I got a letter from home stating that five of my Negroes had runaway and ten of Pappy's.
In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.
East River, downtown: postscript to a letter from Harlem
Both elements -- the caution about a meeting, the willingness eventually to hold one -- were reflected in a letter from the President which Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson brought back to Russia late in February.
Rose Weiss, who handles all the prayer-requests that we receive, answering each letter personally, has the serene selflessness that comes from suffering: she has had many major operations, and now gets about in a limited way on braces and crutches.
His lawyer had sent him a statement on his overdue alimony, and there was a letter from the Collector of Internal Revenue asking him to stop in his office and explain last year's exemptions.
She refolded the letter, replaced it in its envelope, and turned with relief to one from her brother George.
Tax worries, production worries, personnel worries, and the letter from Hanford College, his own alma mater, a real snapper.
letter and State
In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.
* New York State classifies felonies by letter, with some classes divided into sub-classes by Roman numeral ; classes range from Class E ( encompassing the least severe felonies ) through Classes D, C, B, and A – II up to Class A – I ( encompassing the most severe ).
In a letter dated 13 January 1997, the Department of State advised the other agencies of the Executive branch that it considered the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to be one area for political, economic, legal and other purposes.
Because of the controversy surrounding Palmerston's removal as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs because of his letter to the French ambassador endorsing Louis Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup, Palmerston could not now be appointed Foreign Minister again so soon after his removal from the same position.
The State is considered a member when its acceptance letter is deposited.
< p >... people like Jane Fonda and all the names on that letter are assisting the Palestinian propagandists against the State of Israel.
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.
In a letter sent by the former governor of Puerto Rico to the former U. S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice and the Co-Chairs of the White House's Presidential Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status on the Bush administration, former governor Acevedo Vilá stated:
In Yasser Arafat's September 9, 1993 letter to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, as part of the first Oslo accord, Arafat stated that " The PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security.
He signed a letter of intent to play baseball at San Diego State University, currently coached by Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, and was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 2011 MLB draft.
* New York State Identification and Intelligence System ( NYSIIS ), which maps similar phonemes to the same letter.
In a letter he wrote in 1821, he stated " the legitimate meaning of the Instrument must be derived from the text itself ; or if a key is to be sought elsewhere, it must be not in the opinions or intentions of the Body which planned & proposed the Constitution, but in the sense attached to it by the people in their respective State Conventions where it recd.
Secretary of State Christopher's letter to Netanyahu states: " I would like to reiterate our position that Israel is entitled to secure and defensible borders, which should be directly negotiated and agreed with its neighbors.
May 15-Following a letter from the Agent of the new Provisional Government to President Truman, the United States recognized the provision government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.
On August 19, 1791, after departing the federal capital area, Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson, who in 1776 had drafted the United States Declaration of Independence and in 1791 was serving as the United States Secretary of State.
In a letter to Senator Jackson in September 1961 Bundy sought to define the early relationship sought with the State Department.
In 2010 the DOJ created a website through which comments on " Agriculture and Antitrust Enforcement Issues in Our 21st Century Economy " could be submitted ; over 15, 000 comments were submitted including a letter by 14 State Attorneys General.
" Lee cites Theodore Kelsey, a Living Treasure of Hawai ' i renowned for his work as a Hawaiian translator who wrote a letter to Long in 1936 ( now in the Hawai ' i State Archives ) criticizing his use of the terms " unihipili " and " aumakua.
Jerry Yang wrote a letter to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requesting her assistance in freeing the jailed dissidents.
In a letter dated 10 October 1738 the council explained their decision to the State Government in Dresden, rejecting the validity of Groot's imperial authority to publish in the city.
In 1802, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, a group expressing fear of persecution by the Congregationalists of that town, in which he used the expression " Separation of Church and State ".
After 1765, the Royal Assent was at first signified by letter from the Secretary of State to the Governor, but during the Regency the practice began of granting Royal Assent by Order in Council, which continues to this day, though limited to exceptional cases since 1981.
Mason received a letter from U. S. Secretary of State John Forsyth that Congress might use its prerogatives over a territory to force a compromise with Ohio if Michigan refused to bend on the Pains and Penalties Act.
* July 22: Secretary of State Forsyth in a letter to Cass regretted that Mason had submitted the controversy to the legislature.
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