Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).

It is the Technical Committees that, formally, approve a British Standard, which is then presented to the Secretary of the supervisory Sector Board for endorsement of the fact that the Technical Committee has indeed completed a task for which it was constituted.

In April 1921, the IRA was again reorganised, in line with the Dáil's endorsement of its actions, along the lines of a regular army.

In 2003, when Codex Alimentarius was about to remove any upper dose limit for food irradiation, the SCF adopted a " revised opinion ", which, in fact, was a re-confirmation and endorsement of the 1986 opinion.

At the time, however, Rousseau's strong endorsement of religious toleration, as expounded by the Savoyard vicar in Émile, was interpreted as advocating indifferentism, a heresy, and led to the condemnation of the book in both Calvinist Geneva and Catholic Paris.

On September 20, 1819, Polk, with Grundy's endorsement, was elected clerk for the Tennessee State Senate.

During the campaign, Kemp's endorsement was highly coveted.

Some feel the primary reason for the endorsement was to keep the flat tax idea and other supply-side views alive.

Requesting only that the original label design ( which was based on the " Bottled Violence " artwork ) be amended, Ian MacKaye gave the product his endorsement.

There are also some changes in the average ideological slant of endorsements: while in the 40s and in the 50s there was a clear advantage to Republican candidates, this advantage continuously eroded in subsequent decades, to the extent that in the 90s the authors find a slight Democratic lead in the average endorsement choice.

Although he was supported by left wing members within Labour such as Michael D. Higgins, he had little or no contact with Dick Spring and therefore had to live in hope of being nominated without the endorsement of the party leadership.

One important development after the events the 1905-7 revolution was Lenin's endorsement of colonial revolt as a powerful reenforcement to revolution in Europe.

Abu Daoud, who lived with his wife on a pension provided by the Palestinian Authority, has said that “ the Munich operation had the endorsement of Arafat ,” although Arafat was not involved in conceiving or implementing the attack.

The oldest clear endorsement of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John being the only legitimate gospels was written circa 180 AD.

Using his extensive contacts Keating gained Labor endorsement for the federal seat of Blaxland in the western suburbs of Sydney and was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1969 election when he was 25 years of age.

Leading after his endorsement of Lester Pearson's Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the Official Languages Act was passed by parliament in 1969.

However, this move was rejected by organizer Carlos Andrés Santiago, who stated that such an endorsement was harmful and criticized the AUC's actions.

Samoa's current Head of State is His Highness Tui-Atua Tupua Tamasese Tupuola Efi, who was anointed the Head of State title with the unanimous endorsement of Samoa's Parliament.

Clay had endorsed Adams for the Presidency ; the endorsement carried additional weight because Clay was the Speaker of the House.

* United States President Bill Clinton was a dominant political figure in international affairs during the 1990s known especially for his attempts to negotiate peace in the Middle East and end the ongoing wars occurring in the former Yugoslavia ; his promotion of international action to decrease human-created climate change ; and his endorsement of advancing free trade in the Americas.

Michael " The Situation " Sorrentino, who appeared on MTV's Jersey Shore, was able to parlay his fame into lucrative endorsement deals.

According to the author Garry Boulard in his book Abraham Lincoln Ascendent, it was Sherman's 1859 endorsement of the controversial anti-slavery book, The Impending Crisis of the South, written by Hinton Helper, that doomed Sherman's chances of becoming Speaker.

" ( 全世界无产者 ， 联合起来 ！) in bold red letters, and endorsement leaves written by Lin Biao, Mao ’ s chosen successor, that included three lines from the diary of revolutionary hero Lei Feng.

A few pages later in the edition, students had written a story about President Barack Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage.

When asked about Milady's fate, d ' Artagnan can save himself by delivering the Cardinal's endorsement, which had been written for Milady and certifies that the deeds of the carrier are by all means approved by the Cardinal.

Obtaining by false pretence the making, acceptance or endorsement of a bill of exchange or promissory note, the release or substitution of collateral or other security, an extension of time for payment of an obligation, or the release or alteration of the obligation of a written contract, is larceny and punishable by imprisonment.

The first authenticated spelling of the name was Wodensbyri, written in an endorsement on the back of the copy of the will of Wulfric Spot, dated 1004.

After the first season, Taylor's job was filled by Clayton Endicott III ( Rene Auberjonois ), who was written out by having him run for political office and actually snub his employer's endorsement.

His 1940 novel Native Son was the first Book of the Month Club selection written by an African-American, and Wright was willing to change the book to get this second endorsement.

After listening to the two commentaries, the judges would pronounce on solemn triple oath which one was superior and written " with Divine endorsement ".

Upon the further passing of optional written exam element 8 the ship radar endorsement will be added to both the GROL and Maintainer licenses.

Parenting Plans in Australia are a written agreement between two parents and are made without the assistance or endorsement of a court, but can be made with the assistance of a mediator.

A parenting plan can be written in such a way that it can submitted to a court for endorsement, but once endorsed it becomes a consent order.

Therefore although written in French this work was produced for the endorsement of the British monarchy, and at the time of its publication, for the House of Hanover.

MSF is recognized by most state departments of transportation in the U. S. Successful completion of MSF's Basic " RiderCourse " usually replaces a state's riding exam, and may also replace the written exam, to receive a motorcycle operator's endorsement or license.

His chances of retaining his seat in 2006 had been essentially written off by most commentators after his decision to become an Independent, but won a surprise narrow victory after a very low Liberal primary vote and an endorsement from popular Independent Nick Xenophon.

Endorsements also require submission of written proof of two-way contacts with stations located in each of the 50 United States of America using the mode or band for which the endorsement is offered.

From then on, most Republican candidates for local and statewide offices sought the endorsement of Bob Jones III and greeted faculty / staff voters at the University Dining Common.

The DPP and its affiliated parties are widely classified as " liberal " because of their strong human rights stance and endorsement of pluralistic democracy while their Kuomintang opposition, historically take a defensive posture on such issues, is generally viewed as " conservative.

His open endorsement of terrorism led to the Reagan administration declaring Libya a " state sponsor of terrorism " on 29 December 1979, and eventually culminated in the 1986 US Bombing of Libya.

This effort backfired on the conservative hosts, as the Democratic candidate Owens won in part thanks to Scozzafava's endorsement of Owens.

Even so, criticism in the media, including withdrawal of an endorsement contract by Quaker Oats, resulted in his enlistment in the Marine Corps on May 22, 1942.

President John Quincy Adams was renominated on the endorsement of state legislatures and partisan rallies.

The Basic Law of Hong Kong does not provide for official referendums, but the pan-democrats hope that by returning the resignees to the Legislative Council, on their manifesto of real political reform in Hong Kong and the abolition of functional constituencies, the election can be seen as a de-facto referendum and an endorsement of these issues.

Of Spirit is an important contribution to the long debate on Heidegger's Nazism and appeared at the same time as the French publication of a book by a previously unknown Chilean writer, Victor Farías, who charged that Heidegger's philosophy amounted to a wholehearted endorsement of the Nazi Sturmabteilung ( SA ) faction.

As a result of the increasing prominence the concept of business model has received in the context of financial reporting, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group ( EFRAG ), which advises the European Union on endorsement of financial reporting standards, commenced a project on the " Role of the Business Model in Financial Reporting " in 2011.

In a Talking to Americans segment on the Canadian mock television news show This Hour Has 22 Minutes during the 2000 American election, comedian Rick Mercer posed as a reporter and asked several people ( including then-Texas governor George W. Bush ) what they thought of " Prime Minister Jean Poutine " and his endorsement of Bush for president.

Khiêm and Thiệu sought out U. S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and sought a private endorsement for a coup, but Taylor did not want any more changes in leadership, fearing a corrosive effect on the already unstable government.

Irving was an early proponent of the argument that the diaries were a forgery, and went so far as to crash the press conference held by Hugh Trevor-Roper at the Hamburg offices of Der Stern magazine on 25 April 1983 to denounce the diaries as a forgery and Trevor-Roper for endorsing the diaries as genuine ( Trevor-Roper had called the press conference to announce his withdrawal of his endorsement ).

In the November 2011 general election incumbent Vincent Barrella won re-election running as an independent after losing the endorsement of the Point Pleasant Beach Republican Party which went to Stephen Reid, while Republiocan William R. Mayer and Independent Bret Gordon won three-year terms on the Borough Council.

We've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you .... You're thoroughly all right "— a remark that could either be interpreted as a " ringing endorsement " that " legitimized the singer with an adult audience " or as " a somewhat hypocritical statement considering what the CBS censors had just done to his performance on that show.

However, the integration of DOS into Windows 95 was the masterstroke: not only were the other operating system vendors frozen out, Microsoft could now require computer manufacturers to comply with its demands on pain of higher prices ( as when it required IBM to stop actively marketing OS / 2 or else pay more than twice as much for Windows 95 as its competitor Compaq ) or by withholding " Designed for Windows 95 " endorsement ( which was regarded as an essential hardware marketing tool ).

In 1332 Edward Balliol, son of the deposed John Balliol, spearheaded an attack on the Bruce sovereignty with the tacit support of King Edward III of England and the explicit endorsement of ' the disinherited '.

However despite spending millions of dollars on publicity, she fell below 15 % within six months, as the public became increasingly sceptical of her readiness for the Presidency, and as she lost credibility as an anti-establishment candidate after accepting the endorsement of COPEI.

Since Reichenau's order was widely understood as endorsing the mass killings of Ukrainian Jews which were going on behind the German lines, with which 6th Army at any rate was actively co-operating, Rundstedt's open endorsement of its strongly anti-Semitic language clearly contradicts his later assertions that he did not know what the Einsatzgruppen were doing.