Instead of the expected `` annoyances '' due to the nature of his mission, he received many calling cards and invitations from `` gentlemen of mark, on whom I had no sort of claim, & have had many more invitations than I could accept ''.

Early in the 20th century, a historian of Eton wrote, " No other school can claim to have sent forth such a cohort of distinguished figures to make their mark on the world.

" The decision has been criticized on free speech grounds, but the Seventh Circuit has cited it for the proposition that " confusion about sponsorship or approval, even when the mark does not mislead consumers about the source of the goods ," may be sufficient to state a claim under Lanham Act 43 ( a ).

Originally explored by the French, Wheeling still has a lead plate remnant buried by the explorer Céloron de Blainville in 1749 at the mouth of Wheeling Creek to mark their claim.

" ( This process meant to deaden a few trees near the head of a spring, and mark the bark with the initials of the name of the person who made the claim ).

The claim is that " mark twain " refers to a running bar tab that Twain would regularly incur while drinking at John Piper's saloon in Virginia City, Nevada.

The confidence trickster will typically claim to have chosen the mark carefully, based on his reputation for honesty and straight dealing, and may appear to structure the deal so that the confidence trickster's ultimate share of the reward will be distributed voluntarily by the mark.

It cannot be said, however, that Ramus's innovations mark any epoch in the history of logic, and there is little ground for his claim to supersede Aristotle by an independent system of logic.

The Hunter's other claim to Kiwi fame was being the first CKD model line to pass the 30, 000-unit mark during its 12-year run.

Notwithstanding the hallmarking systems themselves, many nations require, as a prerequisite to official hallmarking, that the maker or sponsor itself mark upon the item a responsibility mark and a claim of fineness.

However, when the court was examining the third prong of Plaintiff ’ s ACPA claim, whether Defendant registered its domain name with the bad faith intent to profit from Plaintiff, the court found Defendant had a bona fide noncommercial use of the mark, therefore, the ACPA claim failed.

The use of the term is further ambiguated by the political distinction of Green parties which are formally organized and claim the capital-G " Green " term as a unique and distinguishing mark.

The city is located in Ukraine, and it carries a foreign name as a claim or a mark that once this area was part of the Greater Russia.

This was done in theory by an agreement reached by commissioners from both states in Baltimore in 1779, and ratified by the legislatures of both states in 1780, " to extend the line commonly called Mason and Dixon's line five degrees of longitude from Delaware River ... and from the western termination thereof to run and mark a meridian line to the Ohio River ," which was the northern boundary of Virginia's claim.

With gags like, " AWOL means After Women Or Liquor ", the joke book caught on, and in 1921, Captain Billy made the highly inflated claim that his sales were " soaring to the million mark.

The doctrine allows a junior user of a mark that is geographically remote from the senior user of the mark to establish priority over a senior user's claim to the mark in the junior user's area.

In later life, she would claim that she had been born a Witch, with certain biological features to mark her out as such, including pointed ears, blue markings on her left knee and a strand of flesh that hung on her body.

Throughout Egypt there are a number of churches and shrines that claim to mark an area where the Holy Family stayed.

Since Loose-Wiles claim was not based on a registered mark, they often had to investigate when and where the other company first used the word to determine which company had first claim so as not to lose their right to the name " Sunshine " for their own products.

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

When a hole is to be bored to a predetermined depth, mark the depth on the side of the stock, then run the bit down so that it is even with the mark.

At this point the drains are readjusted so that the suds box drain will discharge directly into the waste line and the main tub drain is set at the 2-1/2 mark on the drain gauge.

Generally, it is necessary to mark distances on a specimen ( or garment ) in both lengthwise and widthwise directions and to measure before and after laundering.

A century ago, Newman saw that liberalism ( what we now might call secularism ) would gradually but definitely make its mark on English Protestantism, and that even high Anglicanism would someday no longer be a `` serviceable breakwater against doctrinal errors more fundamental than its own ''.

Even at that distance, with no sound but the sound of the tractor, I could tell the fierce mark of brutality on the boy.

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

In the absence of other evidence to show the origin of these curious relics of antiquity the occurrence of a name known as Basilidian on patristic authority has not unnaturally been taken as a sufficient mark of origin, and the early collectors and critics assumed this whole group to be the work of Gnostics.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

Ballots which mark every candidate the same ( whether yes or no ) have no effect on the outcome of the election.

In journals and newspapers, quotation mark double / single use depends on the individual publication's house style.

When the students were asked to comment on the accuracy of the test with a rating more than 40 % gave it the top mark of 5 out of 5, and the average rating was 4. 2.

If the traffic on a virtual circuit is exceeding its traffic contract, as determined by the GCRA, the network can either drop the cells or mark the Cell Loss Priority ( CLP ) bit ( to identify a cell as potentially redundant ).

However, a special event to mark the signing is held every year on the 6th of April and involves a street procession and short piece of street theatre.

A small group of houses on Incline Road mark the beginning of the village and the village boundary is near Cwmavon.

Height above sea level: there is a spot height outside the Market Hall which is 133. 5m ; the bench mark on the side of the neighbouring Town Hall is 441. 10 feet.

It is impossible to make a blanket generalization about how the blind were treated in literature beyond that point – they were marvelous, gifted, evil, malicious, ignorant, wise, helpless, innocent, or burdensome depending upon who wrote the story – except to say that blindness is perceived to be such a loss that it leaves an indelible mark on a person ’ s character.

For the first time, not only manufacturers, but also importers and distributors share a responsibility to ensure Electrical and Electronic Equipment within the scope of RoHS comply with the hazardous substances limits and have a CE mark on their products.

In the diagrams, the dots mark the squares where the piece can move if no other pieces ( including one's own piece ) are on the squares between the piece's initial position and its destination.

Chaplin also wished to " do something more " than comedy, and — as Louvish says —" make his mark on a changed world.

In the 1970s Clannad made their mark initially in the folk and traditional scene, and then subsequently went on to bridge the gap between traditional Celtic and pop music in the 1980s and 1990s, incorporating elements from New Age, smooth jazz, and folk rock.

The local Indian population left their mark also on the language with some 400 Taíno terms and place-names of the island.