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Writing about AD 94, Clement of Rome states that the apostles appointed successors to continue their work where they had planted churches and for these in their turn to do the same because they foresaw the risk of discord.
The awards that Mayr received include the National Medal of Science, the Balzan Prize, the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the International Prize for Biology, the Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, and the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.
In 1996 he was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.
*" On Food Writing " Advice about the craft of food writing from Michael Rhulman.
Writing about 80 years later, in 140-150 AD, Ptolemy, drawing on the earlier naval expeditions of Agricola, also distinguished between the Ebudes, of which he writes there were only five ( and thus possibly meaning the Inner Hebrides ) and Dumna.
Writing in 1790, Bewick described it as the largest and most beautiful of the dog kind ; about 36 inches high, generally of a white or cinammon colour, somewhat like the Greyhound but more robust.
Writing about some of these subjects was prohibited in Egypt.
Writing was her outlet, and she wrote with an insightful perception about the realities of life.
After five operations in ten days and physical therapy, King resumed work on On Writing in July, though his hip was still shattered and he could only sit for about forty minutes before the pain became worse.
But after finding that his book On Writing had more useful and observant things to say about the craft than any book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, I have gotten over my own snobbery.
Writing to the Christians of Smyrna, in about AD 106, Saint Ignatius warned them to " stand aloof from such heretics ", because, among other reasons, " they abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again.
Writing for the New York Times shortly after the flight, however, journalist Arthur Krock described mixed feelings in the United States due to fears of the spaceflight's potential military implications for the Cold War, and the Detroit Free Press wrote that " the people of Washington, London, Paris and all points between might have been dancing in the streets " if it were not for " doubts and suspicions " about Soviet intentions.
Perutz was delighted to win the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science in 1997.
Writing about the Germanic war of Caracalla in 213 AD, he has the emperor fight " Κέννους, Kελτικòν ἔθνος " (" the Kenni, a Celtic people ").
Writing about the Russian Tsar, Herberstein wrote that " in the power he holds over his people the ruler of Muscovy surpasses all the monarchs of the world.
Writing in 1821, Sydney Smith proclaimed that " The country belongs to the Duke of Rutland, Lord Lonsdale, the Duke of Newcastle, and about twenty other holders of boroughs.
Writing in 1999, Paul K. Davis estimates the Umayyad forces at 80, 000 and the Franks at about 30, 000, while noting that modern historians have estimated the strength of the Umayyad army at Tours at between 20 – 80, 000.
Writing about a study that seemed to undermine the deterrence effect, a death penalty proponent wrote, " The research didn't cover a long enough period of time ", while an opponent's comment on the same study said, " No strong evidence to contradict the researchers has been presented ".
" In 1829, he published the first book about his system, Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Songs by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them.
The first section of On Writing is an Autobiography mainly about King ’ s early exposure to writing, and his childhood attempts at writing.
Material about King can also be found in his own partly autobiographical On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft ( 2000 ), as well as scattered throughout King's Danse Macabre ( 1981 ).
" Writing to her daughter Victoria in 1858 about the gloominess of Windsor Castle, Queen Victoria stated, " I long for our cheerful and unpalacelike rooms at Osborne.
Writing about Lubitsch's work, critic Michael Wilmington observed:
Early in September 2004, Michael Cullen, the deputy prime minister of New Zealand, announced that Irving would not be permitted to visit the country, where he had been invited by the National Press Club to give a series of lectures under the heading " The Problems of Writing about World War II in a Free Society ".
Writing about Japanese noise music, Hegarty suggests that " it is not a genre, but it is also a genre that is multiple, and characterized by this very multiplicity.

Writing and lost
Writing in 2010 Neil Finn said, " When we lost Paul it was like someone pulled the rug out from underneath everything, a terrible jolt out of the dark blue.
Writing to The Times, Hayek said, " May one who has devoted a large part of his life to the study of the history and the principles of liberalism point out that a party that keeps a socialist government in power has lost all title to the name ' Liberal '.
Writing in Cosmos, journalist Wilson da Silva reacted to Greenpeace's destruction of a genetically modified wheat crop in Ginninderra as another sign that the organization has " lost its way " and had degenerated into a " sad, dogmatic, reactionary phalanx of anti-science zealots who care not for evidence, but for publicity ".
Writing thirty years later, Geoffrey de Villehardouin, who had known Dandolo personally, stated, " Although his eyes appeared normal, he could not see a hand in front of his face, having lost his sight after a head wound.
Writing in the The New York Times, Goodman said, " The writers try everything, including some business involving raiders of a lost orb, without much of a payoff.
At the 34th Academy Awards, Inge won an Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay — Written Directly for the Screen ; Wood was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role, but lost to Sophia Loren in Two Women.
Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Thompson states, “ the normal life of Negroes in the South today – the life with its holdovers from slave times, its social difficulties, childish excitements, and endless exuberances … compared to this sort of story, the ordinary narratives of Negroes in Harlem or Birmingham seem ordinary indeed .” For the New York Herald Tribune, Sheila Hibben described Hurston as writing “ with her head as with her heart ” creating a “ warm, vibrant touch .” She praised Their Eyes as filled with “ a flashing, gleaming riot of black people, with a limitless sense of humor, and a wild, strange sadness .” New York Times critic Lucille Tompkins described Their Eyes, “ It is about Negroes … but really it is about every one, or at least every one who isn ’ t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory .”
The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Academy Award: Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, but lost the award to The Silence of the Lambs.
Writing his first puzzle for The Guardian in July 1958, he eventually took to compiling crosswords full-time when his divorce in the late 1970s lost him his living as a clergyman ( he was reinstated after the death of his first wife ).
Writing in The Spectator, Kingsley Amis ( under the pseudonym Christopher Pym ) wrote that " each episode of the Bond novels meant the adventure was less probable and more preposterous than the last, and now our hero seems to have lost, as well as any claims to plausibility, the know-how, the know-who, know-what and sheer zing that used to carry the unlikely plots along.
" Writing twenty years after the convention, the New York Times wrote, " Supporters of Mr. Bush pointed to the tone of the convention as one of the reasons he lost re-election that November to Bill Clinton.
Writing after the war, Winston Churchill called Birchall the " Saviour of Ceylon " and said that if the British fleet had been defeated at Ceylon, then North Africa would have been lost to the Germans.
Writing in The Guardian in August 2010, film critic David Thomson included the film in his list of ' 10 lost works of genius '.
He also wrote or co-wrote such feature films as Lover Come Back ( 1961 ), for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing ( Original Screenplay ) but lost to William Inge and also wrote for Bedtime Story ( 1964 ).
Writing after the war had finished Jon Abbink postulates that President Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea, realising that his influence over the regime in Ethiopia was slipping and given that " the facts on the ground, in the absence of a concrete border being marked — which anyhow lost much of its relevance after 1962 when Eritrea was absorbed by Ethiopia — have eminent relevance to any borderline decision of today " calculated that Eritrea could annex Badme.
In 1929, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Writing for The Last Command, but lost to Ben Hecht for Underworld, the only other nomination in this category.
Writing about L ' Avventura in 1960, Crowther said that watching the film was " like trying to follow a showing of a picture at which several reels have got lost.
Writing to Nicholas back home once again, George said about his trip to Denmark, " Of course it was good to see the family after 4 years, but it did not really do me any good, as I lost more than 5 pounds which I had put on with such difficulty in May and June.

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