Edward Collier's painting ' Newspapers, Letters and Writing Implements on a Wooden Board '

Writing systems that indicate consonants but do not indicate most vowels ( like the Aramaic one ) or indicate them with added diacritical signs, have been called abjads by Peter T. Daniels to distinguish them from later alphabets, such as Greek, that represent vowels more systematically.

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 in the New York Times in 1990, Richard Bernstein noted " The term ' politically correct ,' with its suggestion of Stalinist orthodoxy, is spoken more with irony and disapproval than with reverence.

Match Writing EFeds are one of the more popular options and features you roleplaying pieces of matches together with another person to create a competition of creativity and grammar.

It was much later, in the 1600s, with the increased popularity of writing, especially in the copperplate style promoted by the many printed manuals available from the ' Writing Masters ,' that quills became more pointed and flexible.

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.

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 might include the name of the owning military unit or commander or might be more imaginative: " Take this ," " Ouch ," and even " For Pompey's backside " added insult to injury, whereas dexai (" take this " or " catch!

Writing SMILES for substituted rings in this way can make them more human-readable.

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.

Writing in 1944, the liberal Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek said of the change in political attitudes that had occurred since the Great War: " Perhaps nothing shows this change more clearly than that, while there is no lack of sympathetic treatment of Bismarck in contemporary English literature, the name of Gladstone is rarely mentioned by the younger generation without a sneer over his Victorian morality and naive utopianism ".

Writing in 1904, journalist Clifton Johnson documented the " opprobrious " character of the word nigger, emphasizing that it was chosen in the South precisely because it was more offensive than " colored.

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 ".

Writing in The Times Literary Supplement Philip Stead was more generous to Dr. No, although he thought that Fleming was offering " too opulent a feast " with the book, although he manages to pull this off, where " a less accomplished writer, lacking Mr. Fleming's quick descriptive gift and his powers of making his characters talk with such lucid and natural style, would never have got away with this story.

Writing pyramid-style tossups can be more difficult because the answer must have many clues, ordered from unique and obscure to giveaway, without tapering too quickly or slowly.

His series often challenge popular views of history: for example, Terry Jones ' Medieval Lives ( 2004 ) ( for which he received a 2004 Emmy nomination for " Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming ") argues that the Middle Ages was a more sophisticated period than is popularly thought, and Terry Jones ' Barbarians ( 2006 ) presents the cultural achievements of peoples conquered by the Roman Empire in a more positive light than Roman historians typically have, while criticizing the Romans as the true " barbarians " who exploited and destroyed higher civilizations.

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 ".

; Lipogram: Writing that excludes one or more letters.

Writing in 1910, Peirce admits that " in almost everything I printed before the beginning of this century I more or less mixed up hypothesis and induction " and he traces the confusion of these two types of reasoning to logicians ' too " narrow and formalistic a conception of inference, as necessarily having formulated judgments from its premises.

Writing of the period 1883 – 1884, Yiddish theatre actor Jacob Adler wrote, " The further we penetrated into this Whitechapel, the more our hearts sank.

It was popular, and under the two titles of Short Writing and Tachygraphy, Shelton's book ran to more than 20 editions between 1626 and 1710.

Writing for the Spanish journal La Vanguardia, commentator Sergio Vila-Sanjuán described the first volume of Eliade's Autobiography ( covering the years 1907 to 1937 ) as " a great book ", while noting that the other main volume was " more conventional and insincere.

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 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 no later than 324, Eusebius quotes the passage in essentially the same form as that preserved in extant manuscripts.

For example, in the 1998 North Carolina Writing Assessment, less than 1 percent of fourth graders received the highest possible score for writing content.

Writing home on 16 February 1943, Powell stated: " I see growing on the horizon the greater peril than Germany or Japan ever were ... our terrible enemy, America ...." Powell's conviction of the anti-British attitude of the Americans continued during the war.

" Writing in Richardson's sister paper, The Manchester Guardian, the critic referred to Johnson's ' sex snobbery and sadism ' tag, but pointed out that whilst " the casualties take place on a somewhat narrower front than usual, they are heavy ".

" Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— was again damning of Fleming's work, saying " it's harder than ever to see why an ardent coterie so admires Ian Fleming's tales ".

Mendon High School scored better in Writing on the Spring 2009 Michigan Merit Exam than any school in the region.

Writing more than a century later the writer W. H. Murray agreed, complaining that the visitors spoiled the " character and atmosphere ", and rather stand-offishly suggesting that " to know Staffa one must go alone ".

Writing in The Guardian, John Rowe Townsend was damning of the book, saying of the car " I don't care for her much, or the values she stands for " and, of the writing, that " we have the adult writer at play rather than the children's writer at work.

Minsky, however, supported traditional banking regulation and advocated further controls of finance to “ promote smaller and simpler organizations weighted more toward direct financing .” Writing from a similar “ neo-Keynesian perspective, Jan Kregel concluded that after World War II non-regulated financial companies, supported by regulatory actions, developed means to provide bank products (“ liquidity and lending accommodation ”) more cheaply than commercial banks through the “ capital markets .” Kregel argued this led banking regulators to eliminate Glass-Steagall restrictions to permit banks to “ duplicate these structures ” using the capital markets “ until there was virtually no difference in the activities of FDIC-insured commercial banks and investment banks .”

Writing in the Washington Post, Tom Shales said that the pilot's production was " more movielike than serieslike ".

Writing in USA Today, Matt Roush encouraged readers to watch the low-rated show, saying that families should watch it rather than " that interchangeable T. G. I. F.

" Writing himself into The Plain Dealer as the " beastly author " of the china scene, Wycherley seems more amused than repentant.

Writing about " essential differences ", Vasile Stati, supporter of Moldovenism, is obliged to concentrate almost exclusively on lexical rather than grammatical differences.

He witnessed the 1965 Watts Riots from an apartment within the curfew zone, feeling more endangered, he indicates in ' Writing a Life ' ( 99-100 ) and When TISH Happens ( 224 ), by the US National Guard than by the mostly black protesters.

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.

For the last 20 years of his life, Selby taught creative writing as an adjunct professor in the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California.

Writing was by Dragnet scripter Jack Robinson ( uncredited ) with art by Joe Sheiber ( June 23, 1952-Sept. 20, 1952 ), Bill Ziegler ( Sept. 22, 1952-January 9, 1954 ) and Mel Keefer ( Jan. 11, 1954-May 21, 1955 ).

" A Bitter Pill – Someone Killed Seven People by Putting Cyanide in Tylenol Capsules – When James Lewis Was Caught for Writing an Extortion Letter, Prosecutors Appeared To Stop Looking for the Killer – Almost 20 Years Later No One Has Been Convicted of the Murders ".

Writing in what one commentator deemed a " rueful " tone, he suggested his earlier arguments regarding issues like affirmative action and the future prospects for African Americans were essentially wrong — the civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 had not allowed blacks to fully integrate into American society, their situation was worse now than it had been 20 years before, and a multicultural curriculum in schools was essentially the result.

Writing about Antonioni for Time in 2007, the film writer Richard Corliss states that the film grossed "$ 20 million ( about $ 120 million today ) on a $ 1. 8 million budget and helped liberate Hollywood from its puritanical prurience ".

She was awarded journalism's highest honor, a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, in 1978 and spent 20 years as the editorial page editor for the Washington Post and 25 years as a columnist for Newsweek.

He also stated this about the necessity of rewriting: " Writing itself is the best teacher of writing, so a young or old writer must learn that, if necessary, his ratio of throwaway to keep pages might turn out to be 20 to 1.

New Zealand Institute of Business Studies has been teaching Freelance Journalism & Non-Fiction Writing for more than 20 years.

Wilding was a founding editor of the University of Queensland Press's Asian & Pacific Writing series ( 20 volumes ), the innovative short story magazine, Tabloid Story with Frank Moorhouse and Carmel Kelly, and of the publishers Wild & Woolley ( with Pat Woolley ), and Paperbark Press ( with the poet Robert Adamson ).

In a letter to Banks from Port Jackson, dated 20 May 1802, Flinders offered this praise: “ was fortunate for science that two such men as Mr Brown and Mr Bauer have been selected, their application is beyond what I have been accustomed to see .” Writing to Banks ten days later, Brown reported that Bauer had made 350 plant sketches and 100 of animals, and had “ indeed been indefatigable and.

CCCC, along with its parent organization National Council of Teachers of English ( NCTE ), sponsors a number of initiatives on writing, including the National Day on Writing held on October 20, 2009.

Writing in The Guardian of 20 January, David Rowland argued that the Directive posed a threat to the British health care system:

The Central City News has won more than 20 national and state awards from the National Newspaper Association and the Louisiana Press Association, including General Excellence, Best Feature Writing, Best Columnist, and Best Local News Coverage.