In a March 2009 letter, Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Service Committee, wrote that the Department was apparently exercising the authority to appoint other significant officials-termed Deputy Under Secretaries of Defense ( DUSDs )-" without statutory authorization, without limitation, and without Senate confirmation.

Years later, in 1802 Thomas Jefferson, writing of the " wall of separation " echoed Roger Williams in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association.

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 ".

* US Evangelical Christian leaders led by Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention send a letter to President Bush outlining the theological justification for a pre-emptive attack on Iraq.

As its foundation for support, the letter refers to the " criteria of just war theory as developed by Christian theologians in the late fourth and early fifth centuries A. D ." The letter was written by Richard D. Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

The letter was written by Richard D. Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and co-signed by four prominent American evangelical Christian leaders with Colson among them.

He was heavily criticized, but was defended by fellow Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell, who wrote a letter supporting him.

" The modern concept of a wholly secular government is sometimes credited to the writings of English philosopher John Locke, but the phrase " separation of church and state " in this context is generally traced to a January 1, 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper.

In 1865, Dr. Edward Underhill, Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society of Great Britain, wrote a letter to the Colonial Office in order to express Jamaica's current poor state of affairs.

Adams ), and " practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States " ( 1811 letter to Baptist Churches ).

The Danbury Baptist Association of Danbury, Connecticut sent a letter, dated October 7, 1801, to the newly elected President Thomas Jefferson, expressing concern over the lack in their state constitution of explicit protection of religious liberty, and against a government establishment of religion.

In the same way he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Archbishop King, and he had earlier described him as `` the worst of them '' in some `` Observations '' on the Irish Privy Council submitted to Oxford.

The letter originated in Irish writing as a d with a cross-stroke added.

Together with Mellitus, the Bishop of London, Justus signed a letter written by Archbishop Laurence of Canterbury to the Irish bishops urging the native church to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter.

This letter also mentioned the fact that Irish missionaries, such as Dagan, had refused to share meals with the missionaries.

This letter also mentioned the fact that Irish missionary bishops, such as Dagan, refused to eat with the Roman missionaries.

Between 612 and 615, the Irish missionary Saint Columban, then living at Bobbio in Italy, was persuaded by Agilulf, King of the Lombards, to address a letter on the condemnation of the " Three Chapters " to Boniface IV.

This is revealed by a letter he sent to the Irish chiefs, where he calls the Scots and Irish collectively nostra nacio ( our nation ), stressing the common language, customs and heritage of the two peoples:

However, a recent letter was found which was written by the Irish merchandises explicitly thanked the Ottoman Sultan for their help.

Five years later he wrote a letter to Michael MacLiammoir, the Irish theatre impresario who ran Dublin's Gate Theatre.

He would not have been admitted at Cobh, according to Irish government documents, except that he carried a letter of introduction from the Paris embassy.

This letter also appears in Dutch, Galician, Irish, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Lakota, Navajo, and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter “ a ”.

( e-acute ) is a letter of the Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Luxembourgish, Slovak, and Catalan, Danish, English, French, Galician, Irish, Italian, Occitan, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter “ e ”.

This letter also appears in Catalan, Irish, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Leonese, Navajo, and Vietnamese language as a variant of the letter “ i ”.

This letter also appears in the Catalan, Irish, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Vietnamese languages as a variant of letter “ o ”.

This letter also appears in Dutch, Irish, Occitan, Pinyin, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter " U ".

In September 1980, he wrote a letter to a friend, Lynda Irish, in which he stated, " I'm going nuts ", and signed it " The Catcher in the Rye ".

The Irish envoys ' final " Demand for Recognition " in a letter to Clemenceau, the Chairman, was not replied to.

In response to O ' Donoghue's letter, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny called on O ' Donoghue to issue a public apology to the Irish public for the expenses incurred, claiming that the O ' Donoghue's response " did not go far enough ".

* The earliest published work of Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory – later to embrace Irish Nationalism and have an important role in the cultural life of Ireland – was Arabi and His Household ( 1882 ), a pamphlet ( originally a letter to The Times newspaper ) in support of Ahmed Orabi (" Arabi " being an archaic mistransliteration not uncommon in English at the time ).

The idea of a body so massive that even light could not escape was first put forward by geologist John Michell in a letter written to Henry Cavendish in 1783 of the Royal Society:

In 2011, psychologist Brent Robbins co-authored a national letter for the Society for Humanistic Psychology that has brought thousands into the public debate about the DSM.

In 1668, Malpighi received a letter from Mr. Oldenburg of the Royal Society in London, inviting him to correspond.

However, these reports are disputed by Leonard D. Jaffe, who was Surveyor program scientist and custodian of the Surveyor 3 parts brought back from the Moon, stated in a letter to the Planetary Society that an unnamed member of his staff reported that a " breach of sterile procedure " took place at just the right time to produce a false positive result.

* 1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing " animalcules ": the first known description of protozoa.

Heinlein Society member and researcher Robert James has noted that Heinlein wrote a letter in which he " firmly states " that Rod Walker is black.

Intensive development began following a September 1998 letter from the Fraunhofer Society announcing plans to charge licensing fees for the MP3 audio format.

* March 20 – Alessandro Volta describes his new invention, the voltaic pile, the first chemical battery, in a letter to the Royal Society.

In 1884, the Barbados Agricultural Society sent a letter to Sir Francis Hincks requesting his private and public views on whether the Dominion of Canada would favourably entertain having the then colony of Barbados admitted as a member of the Canadian Confederation.

He reported the results by letter to the Royal Society of London and it is referred to as " an odd kind of sympathy " in the Society's minutes.

Robertson's papers are at the Caltech archives ; there, in a letter Robertson offers Roe an interview within the first three months of 1949 ( as noted by Goranson on American Dialect Society list 5 / 9 / 2009 ).

By 1919, the year he founded the British Psychoanalytical Society, Jones could report proudly to Freud that psychoanalysis in Britain “ stands in the forefront of medical, literary and psychological interest ” ( letter 27 January 1919 ( Paskauskas 1993 )).

Meanwhile his letter to the Duke of Sussex, then ( April 1836 ) president of the Royal Society, secured for the undertaking, the wide basis of the British dominions.

In May 1959, for example, American ufologist George Adamski received a letter from the lady head of the Dutch Unidentified Flying Objects Society informing him that she had been contacted by Queen Juliana's palace and " that the Queen would like to receive you.

On October 15, 1979, Fox sent a letter to the Canadian Cancer Society in which he announced his goal and appealed for funding.

In August 1852, The Times published an open letter by Lord Rosse, the President of the Royal Society, and Charles Lock Eastlake, the president of the Royal Academy, who called on Talbot to relieve his patent pressure that was perceived as stifling the development of photography.

* Royal Society – Bayes was elected to membership in the Society in 1742 ; and his nomination letter has been posted with other membership records at the Royal Society web site here.

In 1674, in a letter to the Royal Society, the Dutch pioneer of microscopy Antony van Leeuwenhoek wrote that he had collected water samples from an inland lake, in which he found " animalcules " that were " green in the middle, and before and behind white.

In scientific circles Redi's work very soon had great influence, as may be seen from the following quote from a 1671 letter from John Ray to members of the Royal Society of London:

Joseph Priestley, after he had fled to America and not long before his death, wrote a letter that was read to the American Philosophical Society in 1803.

Urged by the New England Society for the Suppression of Vice, his letter said: " We are of the opinion that this book is such a book as brings it within the provisions of the Public Statutes respecting obscene literature and suggest the propriety of withdrawing the same from circulation and suppressing the editions thereof.

In February 1911, when The Mountain God Loves Stonefish was published in the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Tokyo, Minakata received a letter from Yanagita.

In 1769, in a letter to Benjamin Franklin, he wrote some observations on the expectation of lives, the increase of mankind, and the population of London, which were published in the Philosophical Transactions of that year ; in May 1770 he presented to the Royal Society a paper on the proper method of calculating the values of contingent reversions.