The promotion of Robert E. Swift to the position of Assistant Manager of the Interference Control Field Service Department was announced early in December by Frederick S. Scarborough, Manager of Interference Control Field Service.

Readers unacquainted with its reputation as a satirical work often do not immediately realize that Swift was not seriously proposing cannibalism and infanticide, nor would readers unfamiliar with the satires of Horace and Juvenal recognize that Swift's essay follows the rules and structure of Latin satires.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

Swift was especially insulted by projects that tried to fix population and labor issues with a simple cure-all solution.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

Swift however, Landa argues, is not merely criticizing economic maxims but also addressing the fact that England was denying Irish citizens their natural rights and dehumanizing them by viewing them as a mere commodity.

A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

However, the pitching staff — a strong point for the team in 1995 — was beset by injuries: Bill Swift, who went 9 – 3 in 1995, started just three games, and the staff ERA ballooned to 5. 60.

A Lucy Swift gave birth in 1771 to a baby, also named Lucy, who was christened a daughter of her mother and William Swift, but there is reason to believe the father was really Darwin.

The exhumation was carried out in 1428 when, at the command of Pope Martin V, his remains were dug up, burned, and the ashes cast into the River Swift, which flows through Lutterworth.

Rabelais was by far Sterne's favourite author, and in his correspondence he made clear that he considered himself as Rabelais ' successor in humor writing, distancing himself from Jonathan Swift:

Later it was speculated that the probe passed through the debris of Comet D / Swift, and even made a close flyby of that comet's possibly shattered nucleus at only 20 million kilometers.

Between its creation and late 1998, the company had a relatively calm relationship with its first economic regulator, John Swift QC, whose strategy was to encourage Railtrack to make commitments to improvement.

The Attacker was followed by the more advanced Swift which served in the fighter and photo-reconnaissance roles.

Jonathan Swift was a strong advocate for licensing, and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, " One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price ... these things call for an Act of Parliament ".

Casseux's pupil Charles Lecour was exposed to the English art of boxing when he witnessed an English boxing match in France between English pugilist Owen Swift and Jack Adams in 1838.

John Burkett and Bill Swift both had 20 + wins, and closer Rod Beck was dominant with 48 saves and a 2. 16 ERA.

Two centuries later Jonathan Swift said he was " the person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ever produced ," a sentiment with which Samuel Johnson agreed.

More was greatly admired by the Anglican writer Jonathan Swift.

Swift wrote that More was " a person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ever produced ".

in its entirety at The National Theatre in London was met with surprisingly open arms, particularly given its inordinate length: a cycle of five plays — The Eye of the Pyramid, Swift Kick Inc., The Man Who Murdered God, Walpurgisnacht Rock and Leviathan — each consisting of five 23-minute-long acts.

The Hiawatha Line's original first-generation fleet of 27 Flexity Swift LRVs was built by Bombardier ; the Siemens " type II " LRVs will be mechanically, but not electronically, compatible with the current fleet of 27 " type I " vehicles, so while the two generations will be able to run on the tracks at the same time and either type would be able to push a malfunctioning unit of the other type, multiple-unit trains may only be assembled of one type.

Swift both on foot and in their hovering grav-vehicles, they are also able to move quickly around the map via webway gates.

* Ianthe was also the nickname given by the poet Walter Savage Landor to Sophia Jane Swift, the love of his life whom he was never able to marry.

Swift actions undertaken by the Preventers ( Lady Une, Lucrezia Noin, Sally Po, and later Zechs Merquise ) and the Gundam pilots Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, and Quatre Raberba Winner were able to foil the plan before it could come to fruition.

On November 6, 2007, Pickens offered a million dollars to anyone able to dispute any claims made in political ads by the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth ( SVPT ), a group he had supported during the 2004 presidential election.

Swift accompanied newly elected President James Monroe on his trip to examine the northern states and during the seven-week excursion was able to study the battlefields of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, as well as inspect arsenals, Navy yards and fortifications, and study the capacity of the country for defense.

Some critics, like Joep Leerssen, believe that Swift's work contributed greatly to a common Irish nationalism regardless of religious affiliation, and that Swift was able to relate to all of Ireland through a unified suffering under the British rule.

Along with this, Swift was able to rhetorically extend natural rights, in the Drapier's Letters, to all people of Ireland without any regard to restriction.

" MTV cut away from the stage ( showing Beyoncé with an embarrassed look ) after West gave the microphone back to Swift and giving the middle finger to the audience as they started booing him off stage, and so Swift did not finish her speech.

Wall won the Saskatchewan Party nomination for Swift Current in the 1999 election and won handily, defeating NDP incumbent John Wall ( no relation ) by 24 points as part of a wave of rural victories that saw the NDP cut down to a minority government.

During the same period Swift experimented by moving cut meat using a string of ten boxcars with their doors removed, and made a few test shipments to New York during the winter months over the Grand Trunk Railway ( GTR ).

During the same period Swift experimented by moving cut meat using a string of ten boxcars which ran with their doors removed, and made a few test shipments to New York during the winter months over the Grand Trunk Railway ( GTR ).

One of 23 victims of the disaster, Swift was pulled alive from the wreckage but died on his way to hospital, as his seat belt had cut into his aorta.

In this case, the triggers were attached to a thread ; Swift, perceiving the thread, seized the package and cut the thread thus disarming the device.

Breton identified Swift as the originator of black humor and gallows humor, particularly in his pieces Directions to Servants ( 1731 ), A Modest Proposal ( 1729 ), A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick ( 1710 ), and a few aphorisms.

" Taylor's review of the Christmastime production at the Greenwich Theater, featuring Patricia Routledge ( Carrie Pooter ) and Clive Swift ( Mr. Pooter ) reads: " This well-staged, enjoyable production vindicates Francis's Christmas policy at Greenwich: that traditional but non-Christmassy pieces can provide the most festive fare.

During the 2004 U. S. presidential campaign, its Commentary sections featured some pieces by Retired Admiral Roy Hoffmann, a founding member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and resident of Richmond suburb Chesterfield, against Democratic candidate John Kerry.

Jonathan Swift, an Irish satirist in the 17th century, used scatological humor in some of his pieces, including his famous essay A Modest Proposal and his rather crude poem " The Lady's Dressing Room ," in which the speaker comments on the goings-on in a 17th-century woman's room, including her business in her chamber pot.

Even the authors who criticized writing that lived for only a day ( e. g. Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, in The Dedication to Prince Posterity of A Tale of a Tub and Dunciad, among other pieces ) were criticizing specific authors who are unknown without historical knowledge of the period.