ASL grammar was obscured for much of its history by the practice of glossing it rather than transcribing it ( see Writing systems below ), a practice which conveyed little of its grammar apart from word order.

Writing three centuries later, Ibn Abi Zar suggested it was chosen early on by Abdallah Ibn Yasin because, upon finding resistance among the Gudala Berbers of Adrar ( Mauritania ) to his teaching, he took a handful of followers to erect a makeshift ribat ( monastery-fortress ) on an offshore island ( possibly Tidra island, in Arguin bay ).

Writing in 1933, Charles Fenner suggested that it was likely that the " actual origin of the bunyip myth lies in the fact that from time to time seals have made their way up the ... Murray and Darling ( Rivers )".

Writing was introduced during the French occupation and literacy is limited, especially in rural areas.

Writing in the Meiji era, Lafcadio Hearn ( 1902 ) described a baku with very similar attributes that was also able to devour nightmares.

Writing in 1947, Cyril Garbett comments :" The House of Commons was within its constitutional rights in rejecting in a few hours the work of many anxious years.

Writing in 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace remarks " It was formerly a very general belief, even amongst geologists, that the great features of the earth's surface, no less than the smaller ones, were subject to continual mutations, and that during the course of known geological time the continents and great oceans had again and again changed places with each other.

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 a century before Causantín was born, Bede recorded five languages in Britain.

He worked on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes ( 1945 ), and Kitty Foyle ( 1940 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

Writing was from right to left except in archaic inscriptions, which occasionally used boustrophedon.

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing in a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

It won three Academy Awards, including his second for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) ( with Puzo ), Best Picture and Best Actor ( for Brando ) and a nomination for Best Director and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.

In 1996 he was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.

Lucas was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Directing and Writing for American Graffiti, and Best Directing and Writing for Star Wars.

Writing in the spring of 1945 a long essay titled " Antisemitism in Britain ," for the Contemporary Jewish Record, Orwell stated that anti-Semitism was on the increase in Britain, and that it was " irrational and will not yield to arguments.

Writing was known and available for recording, even in small sites.

Along with her work as a writer of prose fiction, Russ was also a playwright, essayist, and author of nonfiction works, generally literary criticism and feminist theory, including the essay collection Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts ; How to Suppress Women's Writing ; and the book-length study of modern feminism, What Are We Fighting For ?.

Writing data to a disk was done by converting 256-byte pages into sets of 5-bit or, later, 6-bit nibbles ; loading data from the disk required the reverse.

Writing of the beauty of the Hebrew women there, he records them saying St. Mary was a relative of theirs, and notes that, " The house of St. Mary is a basilica.

Writing about some of these subjects was prohibited in Egypt.

Writing in late antiquity, the Latin commentator Servius explains that Prometheus was so named because he was a man of great foresight ( vir prudentissimus ), possessing the abstract quality of providentia, the Latin equivalent of Greek promētheia ().

Writing is a ‘ sign of a sign ’ and therefore is also basically phonetic.

During the late 1970s he acquired a large public audience as a critic of the then Labour government's disregard of civil liberties ; his writings from this time are collected in Writing By Candlelight ( 1980 ).

Each Element also has a specialty for which a character can get a 1-point bonus ; e. g., a 5-Air hero with an Air specialty of " Writing " could write as though their Air score were 6.

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.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

Writing Mexican History ( Stanford University Press ; 2012 ) 338 pages

Writing 10 years later, Cubs ' shortstop Ernie Banks would call it the longest ball he'd seen hit at Wrigley Field ; according to Banks, the consensus among the Cubs was that " it must have traveled more than 500 feet ( 152. 4 m ) on its trip into Waveland Avenue.

Writing his Lives of Illustrious Men ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished ; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton.

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Writing during the time of Augustus, Virgil has his hero give a first-person account of the fall of Troy in the second of the Aeneid's twelve books ; the Trojan Horse, which does not appear in " The Iliad ", became legendary from Virgil's account.

Writing, more particularly, refers to two things: writing as an object, the thing that is written ; and writing as a gerund, which designates the activity of writing.

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Terrestrial testing might be subject to reasonable objections ; as one physicist wrote, " Writing the environmental impact statement for such tests [...] might present an interesting problem ..."

Writing in The Guardian on 18 October, Powell asserted that due to the Falklands War, " Britain no longer looked upon itself and the world through American spectacles " and the view was " more rational ; and it was more congenial ; for, after all, it was our own view ".

* Bess, Michael, Mark Cioc, and James Sievert, " Environmental History Writing in Southern Europe ," Environmental History, 5 ( 2000 ), pp. 545 – 56 ;

; Re-entrancy: Writing code in such a way that it can be partially executed by a thread, reexecuted by the same thread or simultaneously executed by another thread and still correctly complete the original execution.

Writing in 2000, David Roffe argued that the inquest ( the survey ) and the construction of the book were two distinct exercises ; the latter being completed, if not started, by William II following his assumption of the English throne and quashing of the rebellion that followed and based on, though not consequent on, the findings of the inquest.

; Lipogram: Writing that excludes one or more letters.

Writing in Latin letters was introduced to Scandinavia with Christianity, so there are few native documentary sources from Scandinavia before the late 11th and early 12th centuries.

Writing a lipogram may be a trivial task for uncommon letters like " Z ", " J ", " Q ", or " X ", but it is much more difficult for common letters like " E ", " T " or " A ".

Writing in early Mesopotamia seems to that the need to document economic transactions, and consisted often in lists which scribes knowledgeable in writing and arithmetics engraved in cuneiform letters into tablets of clay.

The term was again suggested as a convenience to writers of business letters by such publications as the Bulletin of the American Business Writing Association ( 1951 ) and The Simplified Letter, issued by the National Office Management Association ( 1952 ).

Writing Japanese in kana ( hiragana and katakana ) demonstrates the moraic system of writing ; for example, the word Tomato is written in three letters ト マ ト which correspond to.

*" Letters from Geeksville: letters from Red Lane 1960-64 " Prince George, Caledonia Writing Series, 1976.

* Mathematics — Writing: Approximately 10 < sup >− 183, 800 </ sup > is a rough first estimate of the probability that a monkey, placed in front of a typewriter and given adequate food, breaks, and sleep while doing so, will type all the letters of Hamlet on the first try.

* Writing, in the name of the Senate, letters and dispatches

He was co-editor ( with William Bright ) of the book The World's Writing Systems ( 1996 ), and he introduced the terms abjad ( an " alphabet " with no vowel letters ) and abugida ( a system partly alphabetic, partly syllabic ) as modern linguistic terms for categories of scripts.

Writing in the Democracy ( 1975 – 1999 ) When Franco at last died in November 1975, the important work of establishing democracy had an immediate impact on Spanish letters.

Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann ( born Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, 2 June 1907 ; died London, 7 April 1987 ) was an English poet and man of letters, and one of the foremost literary editors of the twentieth century, founding the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine.

Editors are a frequent target of letter-writing campaigns, also called “ astroturfing ,” or “ fake grass-roots ” operations in which sample letters are distributed on Web sites or otherwise, to be copied or rewritten and submitted as personal letters .< Ref > Action Tips: Organize a Letter Writing Campaign Dosomething. org </ ref >

What does survive is one part entitled the Gyeweon Pilgyeong ( 계원필경, 桂苑筆耕, " Plowing the Cassia Grove with a Writing Brush "), which is ten volumes made up primarily of official letters and memorials composed while in the service of Tang.