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 ''.

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.

The continued existence of TAI was questioned in a 2007 letter from the BIPM to the ITU-R which stated " In the case of a redefinition of UTC without leap seconds, the CCTF would consider discussing the possibility of suppressing TAI, as it would remain parallel to the continuous UTC.

The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first but also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was " fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits ".

He / she must have a valid passport and either have an invitation letter or a bank statement with enough money to survive the length of the stay in Costa Rica, plus proof of onward travel ( ticket to exit Costa Rica & legal ability to travel to the destination stated on the ticket ).

Whenever the leading capital letter designation is missing, this is interpreted as being an informal form with an implicit " A " unless otherwise explicitly stated.

In a letter to Hayek in 1944, Popper stated, " I think I have learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski.

Gardner's dissatisfaction with the group grew, particularly when in 1939, one of the group's leaders sent a letter out to all members in which she stated that war would not come.

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.

Finally, in a letter to Franz Mehring dated 14 July 1893, Engels stated:

Acknowledging the controversy, Paul VI in a letter to the Congress of German Catholics ( Aug. 30, 1968 ), stated: " May the lively debate aroused by our encyclical lead to a better knowledge of God ’ s will.

Most American and European gold jewellery is made of an alloy of gold, the purity of which is stated in karats, indicated by a number followed by the letter K. American gold jewellery must be of at least 10K purity ( 41. 7 % pure gold ), ( though in the UK the number is 9K ( 37. 5 % pure gold ) and is typically found up to 18K ( 75 % pure gold ).

His hand-written resignation letter, dated November 2, stated: " The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

" Loach also joined " 54 international figures in the literary and cultural fields " in signing a letter that stated, in part, " celebrating ' Israel at 60 ' is tantamount to dancing on Palestinian graves to the haunting tune of lingering dispossession and multi-faceted injustice ".

Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe, responded with a single-page letter in which he stated: "... a combined operation having the objective of landing in England must be rejected.

" Gödel himself wrote a letter to Cohen in 1963, a draft of which stated, " Let me repeat that it is really a delight to read your proof of the ind of the cont hyp.

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:

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.

In the case of a certain Hugh whom the chapter of Chartres had elected bishop, he withheld his approbation because the bishop-elect did not possess sufficient knowledge, quum pateretur in litteratura defectum, as the Pope stated in a letter dated 8 January 1219.

Some fifteen years earlier, in a letter to the Saxon Chancellor Gregor Brück, Luther stated that he could not " forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

He relates how and when he became a Christian, and in his letter to Florinus stated that he saw and heard Polycarp personally in lower Asia.

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.

In response to a 1995 letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine, representatives of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) stated the agency would " update the labeling insert for all marketed fluoroquinolones to include a warning about the possibility of tendon rupture.

Following Odoacer's coup, the Roman Senate sent a letter to Zeno, which stated that " the majesty of a sole monarch is sufficient to pervade and protect, at the same time, both the East and the West ".

In a letter dated February 23, 2011 to the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, the Attorney General of the United States stated " while sexual orientation carries no visible badge, a growing scientific consensus accepts that sexual orientation is a characteristic that is immutable ".

For his part, Thompson had explained in a previous letter that there would be nothing but an honorable friendship between Katie and himself.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

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.

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.

I would tell them I got a letter from home stating that five of my Negroes had runaway and ten of Pappy's.

This letter would have got to me if she hadn't even put Rome, Italy, on it.

But due to the many applicants on file, would he co-operate and write a personal letter giving them his son's motivation, interests and his qualifications for leadership??

This was the letter which would or would not enroll his son, David, in Hanford.

On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

The @ symbol was not used in continental Europe and the committee expected it would be replaced by an accented À in the French variation, so the @ was placed in position 40 < sub > hex </ sub > next to the letter A.

In German, words starting with sch-( constituting the German phoneme ) would be intercalated between words with initial sca-and sci-( all incidentally loanwords ) instead of this graphic cluster appearing after the letter s, as though it were a single letter — a lexicographical policy which would be de rigueur in a dictionary of Albanian, i. e. dh -, ë -, gj -, ll -, rr -, th -, xh-and zh-( all representing phonemes and considered separate single letters ) would follow the letters d, e, g, l, n, r, t, x and z respectively.

Although he was not an innovator, he would not follow the absolute letter of the law ; rather he was driven by concerns over humanity and equality, and introduced into Roman law many important new principles based upon this notion.

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.

He later sent a letter to Yeshaq's successor Zara Yaqob in 1450, in which he wrote that he would be happy to send artisans to Ethiopia if their safe arrival could be guaranteed, but it probably never reached the Emperor.

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.

The facsimile ( fax ) machine took this one step further: an entire letter could be completely transferred electrically from the sender's house to the receiver's house by means of the telephone network as an image.

In fact, the standard British keyboard layout includes an accent key on the top-left corner to produce àèìòù, although this is a two step procedure, press the accent key and release, then the letter key.

This step was met with some discontent from French clergy, and thirty priests wrote an open letter to the Pope.

Tarascan architecture is noted for step pyramids in the shape of the letter " T ".

Dion did, in fact, step down as party leader shortly after Manley's letter was published, however this was a result of internal party pressure and the significance of Manley's letter to this end is debatable.

Stokes, however, in a letter published some years after the delivery of this address, stated that he had failed to take one essential step in the argument — not perceiving that emission of light of definite wavelength not merely permitted, but necessitated, absorption of light of the same wavelength.

Various motives influenced him in taking this surprising step ; but the only ostensible cause was that put forward in his letter to Lord Salisbury, which was read in the House of Commons on 27 January.

Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne said that they would step down with a letter to their employees.

He resigned from this position on 6 September 2006 after signing a letter calling on Prime Minister Tony Blair to step down.

He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Home Office Minister Tony McNulty from 10 November 2005 until 6 September 2006, when he resigned after signing a letter calling for Prime Minister Tony Blair to step down.

While first enthusiastic about the story, eight months later the executive editor would claim the story was faulty, in a letter to readers in which he stated: " I believe that we fell short at every step of our process.

* The second step: the mystic writes out specific letter groups and their permutations.

Pulses on the telegraph line made a letter wheel turn step by step until the right letter or symbol was reached and then printed.

Empowered by this letter, Eirik could take the step of excommunicating Sverre and order the Norwegian bishops to join him in exile in Denmark.

On 26 March, Gair, Birch, and party whip Don McKinnon presented McLay with a letter signed by a majority of MPs asking him to step aside.

His resignation letter said that the time had come for him to step aside for a younger man ; this was sarcasm, as he was replaced by Michael Foot, who was seven months younger than himself.

“ We will no longer accept call-ups to the national team while these people are performing these functions, hoping that our gesture will mark the first step in the healing of this cancer in our soccer and a new beginning for the national team for which our hearts beat .” in the letter it was quoted.

George and John Hartford also took the unusual step of publishing a letter pointing out that Patman's legislation would significantly increase food prices.

Moores in a letter to The Times has since admitted that he " hugely regrets " selling to the American duo, and has called on them to step aside, and find a suitable buyer for the club " I call upon them now to stand back, accept their limitations as joint owners, acknowledge their role in the club's current demise, and stand aside, with dignity ".