The pastor writes a personal letter to each individual, expressing his joy over the decision, assuring him of a pastoral call at the earliest convenient time, and outlining the plan for membership preparation classes and Membership Sunday.

It is alphabetic, with a letter or diacritic for every phonemic ( distinctive ) hand shape, orientation, motion, and position, though it lacks any representation of facial expression, and is better suited for individual words than for extended passages of text.

In 1990, surviving internees began to receive individual redress payments and a letter of apology.

This hypothesis could explain why the letter to Philemon ( a letter written to an individual ) is included alongside letters written to Christian communities.

Lever harps use a shortening lever ( usually shaped like a capital letter L ) on the neck next to each individual string which is to be activated ( i. e., turned ) manually to shorten the string and raise the tone a half step.

However, when deconstructed, each individual letter may refer to some universal concept found in the system that the formula appears.

Another interpretation holds that the letter is addressed to a specific individual, Kyria, but according to scholar Amos Wilder, " the contents of our letter exclude this view.

The silver altarpiece of patriarch Pellegrinus II ( 1195 − 1204 ) in the cathedral of Cividale was printed with individual letter punches.

In a letter, published after the election, Grant sought to unequivocally distance himself from General Orders No. 11: " Grant's self-serving explanation ", notes Jonathan Sarna, " did not actually bear close scrutiny ," but Jews nonetheless generously accepted his attempt at self-extrication: " I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.

The shift from the ligature ‹ vv › to the distinct letter ‹ w › is thus gradual, and is only apparent in abecedaria, explicit listings of all individual letters.

This method involves examining every letter within the word as an individual sound in the order in which they appear and then blending those sounds together.

Users of the PageMaker-LaserWriter-Macintosh 512K system endured frequent software crashes, cramped display on the Mac's tiny 512 x 342 1-bit monochrome screen, the inability to control letter spacing, kerning ( the addition or removal of space between individual characters in a piece of typeset text to improve its appearance or alter its fit ) and other typographic features, and discrepancies between the screen display and printed output.

Every typeface is a collection of glyphs, each of which represents an individual letter, number, punctuation mark, or other symbol.

This letter reflects the growing distrust of and dissatisfaction with language that so characterizes the Modern era, and Chandos's dissolving personality is not only individual but societal.

If an individual reads an English word that they have never come across they use the law of past experience to interpret the letter ’ s " L " and " I " as two letters beside each other, rather than using the law of closure to combine the letters and interpret the object as an uppercase U.

In 2012, it was revealed that an individual claiming to be Omar sent a letter to President Barack Obama in 2011, expressing slight interest in peace talks.

In February 2000, the Salvation Army publicly ( in their publication known as " War Cry " and in a letter to a Scottish Parliament committee ) opposed the repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act ( 1988 ) However, The Salvation Army in the UK and Ireland website refers to the organisation offering ' unconditional assistance and support regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual choices, respecting the identity and choices of all those referred to them .... As well as having a right to be dealt with professionally, people can expect from us encouragement and a respect for their individual beliefs, ambitions and preferences.

The term cult of personality comes from Karl Marx's critique of the " cult of the individual "— expressed in a letter to German political worker, Wilhelm Bloss.

In January 2011, an open letter printed in the Wall Street Journal on the UN-designated Holocaust Remembrance Day from 400 rabbis, including the leaders of all main branches of Judaism in the US, called on Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News Corp, to sanction Fox News commentator Glenn Beck due to his use of the Holocaust to " discredit any individual or organization you disagree with.

A letter of credence is a formal letter usually sent by one head of state to another that formally grants diplomatic accreditation to a named individual ( usually but not always a diplomat ) to be their ambassador in the country of the head of state receiving the letter.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

The Attorney General responded by letter dated July 19.

The letter, dated Feb. 22, was delivered to Premier Khrushchev in Novosibirsk, Siberia, on March 9.

" wrote Peter ( in a tone that can only be guessed ) in a letter dated 13 August 1710.

In a letter to R. B. Fuller Esq., dated 1 August 1913, McCormick described the circumstances that inspired him to write Advance Australia Fair:

In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

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.

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

Pius IV sent the decrees to Mary, Queen of Scots, with a letter dated June 13, 1564, requesting her to publish them in Scotland, but she dared not do it in the face of John Knox and the Reformation.

One of the earliest references to couscous in France is in Brittany, in a letter dated January 12, 1699.

In one letter, dated 1983, Frances wrote:

The original full version of the letter, called Return of the Several Ministers dated June 15, 1692, and had already been reprinted in the fall 1692 in the final two pages of Increase Mather's Cases of Conscience.

It is in the form of a letter submitted to Pope John XXII, dated 6 April 1320, intended to confirm Scotland's status as an independent, sovereign state and defending Scotland's right to use military action when unjustly attacked.

In a letter dated 22 February 1500 to Oluf Stigsøn, King John describes the battle, but does not mention the loss of an important flag.

In a letter dated May 24, 1891, Frege thanked Husserl for sending him a copy of the Philosophy of Arithmetic and Husserl's review of Ernst Schröder's Vorlesungen über die Algebra der Logik.

If the letter is not considered to be an authentic part of the Pauline corpus it might be dated during the late 1st century, possibly as late as 80 AD.

The letter was written during this time in Ephesus, which is usually dated as being in the range of 53 to 57 AD.

In a letter to Moore ( dated 15 November 1932 ), he left the choice of pseudonym to him and to Gollancz.

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.

In a letter, dated 1725 he described Glasnevin as " the receptacle for thieves and rogues.

Contarini in a letter to his friend Cardinal Reginald Pole ( dated 11 November 1538 ) says that his hopes had been wakened anew by the pope's attitude.

Merriam-Webster, publishers of the leading American dictionaries, first heard of this puzzle in a letter dated March 17, 1975, from Patricia Lasker of Brooklyn, New York.

In a letter to Conrad Schmidt dated August 5, 1890, he stated that " And if this man ( i. e., Paul Barth ) has not yet discovered that while the material mode of existence is the primum agens this does not preclude the ideological spheres from reacting upon it in their turn, though with a secondary effect, he cannot possibly have understood the subject he is writing about.