The theme is of retribution: David's sin against Uriah the Hittite is punished by God through the destruction of his own family, and its purpose is to serve as an apology for the coronation of Bathsheba's son Solomon instead of his older brother Adonijah.

In 1997 the Linnean Society issued a posthumous apology to Potter for the sexism displayed in its handling of her research.

On 3 September 2008, however, publisher Harper Collins issued a public apology for its book " The Daring Book for Girls " which openly encouraged girls to play the instrument.

My subject is a barren one – the world of nature, or in other words life ; and that subject in its least elevated department, and employing either rustic terms or foreign, many barbarian words that actually have to be introduced with an apology.

The suit was eventually withdrawn, and the company continued its advertising response by publicly requesting an apology from the suing firm of Beasly Allen.

Among other demands, the mission sought increased compensation for its former Duars territories, but instead the British deducted nearly 3, 000 rupees from the annual compensation and demanded an apology for alleged plundering of British-protected lands by members of the mission.

Turkey has demanded an apology from Israel over the flotilla incident, which Israel has shown interest in providing, but Turkey has also demanded Israel end its blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, which Israel has stated is a non-possibility.

This is perhaps the most obvious and widely-held critique of current national accounting and economic growth reporting systems-the creators of the GNP and GDP measures themselves advise against its use as a single measure of economic growth-but politicians and press typically do so without caveat nor apology.

In October 2002, FAIR's Action Alert citing the underestimate of the size of a massive anti-Iraq War rally led to a National Public Radio apology to its listeners and a followup article in The New York Times that Editor & Publisher suggested was written " in response to many organized protest letters sent to the Times since the paper's weak, and inaccurate, initial article about the march on Sunday.

Although no names were printed, when the twins threatened the journalists involved in the story and Boothby threatened to sue, the newspaper backed down, sacked its editor, printed an apology and paid Boothby £ 40, 000 in an out-of-court settlement.

In 1998, following Covey's apology over his comments at STM98, Franklin Covey rewrote its nondiscrimination policy to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Downie accepted the apology and said even had the paper known it would not have changed its reporting.

" Whitehouse and the NVALA won a libel action with a full apology and substantial damages against the series ' writer, Johnny Speight, after he implied in an interview that the organisation's members and its head were fascists.

In the English language, the word apology is derived from the Greek word, but its use has changed ; its primary sense now refers to a plea for forgiveness for a wrong act.

Drumdoe was robbed of most of its furniture and pictures early in 1923, for which French received an apology and a promise of an armed guard for the place from Governor-General T. M. Healy.

In as much as the will represents the Bible and the coat represents the practice of Christianity, the allegory of the narrative is supposed to be an apology for the Anglican church's refusal to alter its practice in accordance with Puritan demands and its continued resistance to alliance with the Roman church.

For example, a halftime show performed at the Continental Tire Bowl in 2002 prompted West Virginia Governor Bob Wise to demand an apology from the band and the school for its portrayal of West Virginia residents.

Dead air can also apply to television broadcasting, generally when a television channel has an interruption to its output, resulting in a blank screen or in the case of digital television, a frozen image, until output is restored or an apology message is broadcast.

Days stated: " I think that certainly an apology is justified with respect to the way the federal government handled its investigation: the FBI, the Justice Department, and my division.

In 1996, The Weekly Standard published an article which accused Chopra of " plagiarism and soliciting a prostitute "; however, Chopra sued and the paper withdrew its statements and published an apology.

* According to the Associated Press, on January 31, 2005, “ the nation ’ s largest insurance brokerage company, Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., based in New York, will pay $ 850 million to policyholders hurt by ” corporate practices that included “ bid rigging, price fixing and the use of hidden incentive fees .” The company will issue a public apology calling its conduct " unlawful " and " shameful ," according to New York State Attorney General Elliott Spitzer.

The British government demanded an apology and the release of the prisoners while it took steps to strengthen its military forces in Canada and the Atlantic.

In its account of the Trafton lecture, the Providence Daily Post said that the remarks of Rev. Trafton made the people indignant.

Cranmer's work of simplification and revision was also applied to the Daily Offices, which were to become Morning, and Evening Prayer ; and which he hoped would also serve as a daily form of prayer to be used by the Laity, thus replacing both the late medieval lay observation of the Latin Hours of the Virgin, and its English equivalent, the Primer.

The play received glowing reviews in all the British broadsheets, including The Times: " The Tricycle's latest recreation of a major inquiry is its most devastating "; The Daily Telegraph: " I can't praise this enthralling production too highly ... exceptionally gripping courtroom drama "; and The Independent: " A necessary triumph ".

One of his most memorable exchanges on HIGNFY occurred when he scathingly joked to fellow guest Piers Morgan that the Daily Mirror was now, thanks to Morgan ( then its editor ), almost as good as The Sun.

* 1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.

After its production, " his majesty sent him to Ireland, with an order to the lords justices to confer upon him some dignity in the church, which order was complied with by his promotion to the deanery of Killalow " ( Daily Courant, 5 October 1727 ).

The Daily Mirror was the only major newspaper to back Foot and Labour at the 1983 general election, urging its readers to vote Labour and " Stop the waste of our nation, for your job your children and your future " in response to the mass unemployment that had resulted from Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher's monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation.

FutureSplash was used by Microsoft in its early work with the Internet ( MSN ), and also by Disney Online for their subscription-based service, Disney's Daily Blast.

The British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph placed " Some Velvet Morning " in pole position in its 2003 list of the Top 50 Best Duets Ever.

Initially sponsored by the Daily Express newspaper, its success encouraged several countries in Europe and the Middle East to follow suit.

This concept became popularized by Jon Stewart's Daily Show in the mid-1990's-according to its creators, " a stupid party trick "- called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

* 1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York.

After its demise, a string of newspapers sprang into being, including the Flying Post, the Evening Post and the Daily Courant.

The readership also differs greatly ; one of Britain's most well-known tabloids, the Daily Mail, boasts a mostly female readership, whereas that of The Morning Star, in keeping with its political leanings, is of unionised labourers.

* February 21 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.

In June, he wrote an article for the Daily Mail, where he stated that " Britain is waking from the nightmare of being part of the continental bloc, to rediscover that these offshore islands belong to the outside world and lie open to its oceans ".

He contributed to The Daily Telegraph as its jazz critic from 1961 to 1971, articles gathered together in All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961 – 71 ( 1985 ), and he edited The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ( 1973 ).

" Andrew Slack and the Harry Potter Alliance compare media consolidation in the U. S. to Voldemort's regime in Deathly Hallows and its control over the Daily Prophet and other media saying that " Once Voldemort took over every form of media in the wizarding world, Dumbledore's Army and the Order of the Phoenix formed an independent media movement called ' Potterwatch '.

Peng forbade its publication in the nationally-distributed People's Daily and other major newspapers under his control, instructing them to write exclusively about " academic discussion ", and not pay heed to Yao's petty politics.

The Chicago Daily Tribune printed " DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN " as its post-election headline, issuing a few hundred copies before the returns showed conclusively that the winner was Harry S. Truman, the incumbent.

While at the University of Illinois, Ebert worked as a reporter for the The Daily Illini and then served as its editor during his senior year while also continuing to work as a reporter for the News-Gazette of Champagne-Urbana, Illinois ( he had begun at the News-Gazette at age 15 covering Urbana High School sports ).

Although, under Associated Newspaper's ownership, the Standard shared the same Editor in Chief, Paul Dacre, as the Daily Mail, it maintained a quite different style from the latter's " middle England " outlook, in order to appeal to its local, more cosmopolitan readership.

Tribune Company owned The New York Daily News from its 1919 founding until its 1991 sale to Robert Maxwell.

However, Daily Racing Form, for the first time in history, printed its own clocking of 1: 53 next to the official time in the chart of the race.