The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

Shortly after Lee's surrender, a general had asked Lincoln how the defeated Confederates should be treated, and Lincoln replied, " Let ' em up easy.

Greenpeace replied that the tree had fallen down because the protective forest around it had been clearcut, and that they wanted to highlight the fate of old forests in general, not the fate of one particular tree.

Plutarch states that, when questioned by Scipio as to who was the greatest general, Hannibal is said to have replied either Alexander or Pyrrhus, then himself, or, according to another version of the event, Pyrrhus, Scipio, then himself.

Stapp replied that it was because they always took Murphy's Law under consideration ; he then summarized the law and said that in general, it meant that it was important to consider all the possibilities ( possible things that could go wrong ) before doing a test and act to counter them.

When Admiral Hermann Boehem sent Raeder a memo in late August saying that the disposition of the German fleet could only made sense if there was no general war, one of Raeder's aides, a Captain Fricke replied with the comment on the margin: " That is precisely the point!

Asked years later why Groves chose him, Oppenheimer replied that the general " had a fatal weakness for good men.

It is reported by Plutarch, that the lenient discipline of the troops under Scipio's command, and the exaggerated expense incurred by the general, provoked the protest of Cato ; that Scipio immediately afterwards replied angrily, saying he would give an account of victories, not of money ; that Cato left his place of duty after the dispute with Scipio about his alleged extravagance, and returning to Rome, condemned the uneconomical activities of his general to the senate ; and that, at the joint request of Cato and Fabius, a commission of tribunes was sent to Sicily to examine the behavior of Scipio, who was found not guilty upon the view of his extensive and careful arrangements for the transport of the troops.

Catesby replied " Whatever I mean to do, if the Pope knew, he would not hinder for the general good of our country.

Judge Elijah Steele of Yreka, California wrote later that when he warned Canby that the Modoc were volatile and he was at risk, Canby replied, " I believe you are right, Mr. Steele, and I shall regard your advice, but it would not be very well for the general in command to be afraid to go where the peace commissioners would venture.

One well known and possibly apocryphal anecdote maintains that when Vernet was asked to remove a certain obnoxious general from one of his paintings, he replied, " I am a painter of history, sire, and I will not violate the truth ," hence demonstrating his fidelity to representing war truthfully.

To them I have in general terms replied, ' Baltimore will take care of its own, thank you.

When asked why he had joined the Liberal party in the early 1960s, he replied that the Liberals were a party without a general and that he was a general without a party.

His subordinates evacuated the warship, and pleaded for Dong Xi to come out, but the loyal, yet stubborn Dong replied sternly, “ As a general who have received responsibility to get ready to face the rebels, how can I leave my post?

Belisarius was sent back to the region with Hermogenes as his co-commander and 25, 000 men in 530 ; Kavadh replied with another 10, 000 troops under the general Perozes, who set up camp about five kilometers away at Ammodius.

Senator Preston King of New York mounted a two-hour attack on the constitution and Southern policy in general, following which Mallory replied in what his biographers describe as " probably his most effective speech in the Senate.

Roosevelt replied on 26 August that " I do not consider it advantageous to the long-range general war prospect for me to join you in the proposed message to Uncle Joe.

Unconvinced, Shahumyan replied " And you really believe that a British general and a Bolshevik commissar would make good partners .... No!

De Valera replied to Churchill in a radio broadcast which drew praise from political opponents and the media in general in Ireland for its restraint:

Roosevelt replied on August 26: ' I do not consider it advantageous to the long-range general war prospect for me to join you in the proposed message to Uncle Joe '.

Roosevelt replied on August 26: ' I do not consider it advantageous to the long-range general war prospect for me to join you in the proposed message to Uncle Joe '.

Flagstad eventually returned to the Metropolitan Opera, invited by its new general manager, Rudolf Bing, who was furiously criticized for this choice: " The greatest soprano of this century must sing in the world's greatest opera house ", he replied.

Yes: “ The general duties of every corporation may be collected from the nature and design of its institution: it should act agreeably to its nature, and fulfill the purposes for which it was formed .” Who sees that corporations are living up to those duties?

Yes, large numbers of people do enjoy making a philosophy of general semantics.

In popular language, old boy network or old boy society has come to be used in reference to the preservation of social elites in general ; such connections within the British Civil Service formed a primary theme in the British Broadcasting Corporation's satirical comedy series Yes Minister.

There was, however, a joint pact signed in March 1996 between Ron Davies and the Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Alex Carlile which committed both parties to support a Yes vote in the event of a Labour victory at the forthcoming general election.

Yes, I think it can and I am quite prepared to work with the attorney general to try and ensure that the OMB is more reflective of community values [...] I've had a couple of discussions with the attorney general going back a month and we both agree we are going to take a thorough look at the OMB and see how we can further improve it based on changes we made a couple of years ago.

In 2003 the party campaigned for a Yes vote in the referendum on membership in the European Union but the declining trend in general elections continued and in election that year the Party obtained only 0. 7 % of first preference votes.

They are in general those fears that once seemed to have been amenable to prayer or ritual.

An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.

College in gross -- just the general experience -- may have varying effects, but the students who are successful emerge with strengthened and clarified democratic values.

Those who do have occasion to deal with the invasions in a more general way, like T.W. Shore and Arthur Wade-Evans, are on the side of a gradual and often peaceful Germanic penetration into Britain.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

Under the general heading `` poetry-and-jazz '' widely divergent experiments have been carried out.

Not terror, but anger and resentment have been the general reaction outside the Soviet sphere.

Consequently there have developed several forms of grants-in-aid and shared taxes, as well as the unrestricted grant to local governments for general purposes whose adoption accompanied the introduction of a sales tax at the state level.

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

The wording of the question was quite general and may have been subject to different interpretations.

These forty-seven special purpose governments have the authority to levy taxes, to borrow money, own property, sue and be sued, and in general to exercise normal corporate powers.

and that all this would have a serious adverse effect on the entire stock market and on general business activity.

As I have repeatedly stated, this provision is much more restrictive than the general law, popularly known as the Buy American Act.

It seems reasonable that if general nuclear war is not to be one cataclysmic act of burning each other's citizens to cinders, we must have a manned strategic force of long-endurance aircraft capable of going into China or Russia to find and destroy their strategic forces which continued to threaten us.

The theorem which we prove is more general than what we have described, since it works with the primary decomposition of the minimal polynomial, whether or not the primes which enter are all of first degree.

It is obvious enough that linguists in general have been less successful in coping with tone systems than with consonants or vowels.

Most others have been content to give only the most general attention to the broadest and most obvious features of the phonology when designing orthographies.

During much of the year the general level of business activity has moved along on a record-high plateau, but there have been persistent signs of slack in the economy.

Similar considerations presumably made it difficult to prescribe a general rule where the acquired and acquiring corporations have different methods of accounting ( section 381(c)(4) ) or depreciation ( section 381(c)(6) ).

What we have seen in this chapter, we have seen only dimly, and yet the results, however general, are worth the search.

By applying this general principle, a great number of complex compounds of osmium, ruthenium, iridium, and rhenium, with triphenylphosphine, triphenylarsine, and triphenylstibine have been obtained in this laboratory during the past few years.

-- The theory of elasticity of Gaussian networks has been developed on a more general basis and the equations of state relating variables of pressure, volume, temperature, stress and strain have been precisely formulated.

Unfortunately, few of the artists ( writers, movie producers, dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways.