Sentences with phrase «as first letter»

Noting how Android build numbers tend to start with the same letter as the first letter of the Android version name, he considers this confirmation that Android is moving forward with another Jelly Bean version rather than releasing an entirely new operating system.

Horse breeders, especially in Europe, sometimes use the first letter of the dam's name as the first letter in the name of all of her offspring.

Each printable includes 10 sentences that contain capitalization errors, such as the first letter of a sentence in lowercase (when it should be capitalized), as well as proper nouns starting with lowercase letters.

These alphabet word search puzzles each have 26 words, so each of the alphabet letters are used as the first letter of one of the words in the word list.

That system provides two names for a species — a family name (generic name or genus name), which always has a capital letter as the first letter, and a personal name (specific name), which is always in lower case letters.

As the First Letter of John has it:

Not exact matches

Last month, in a letter online to shareholders, he said he would miss the annual shareholders» meeting as well and said for the first time that he had surgery for a bile - duct «growth,» found during a routine health checkup.

One of the start - ups to receive a no - action letter was FundersClub, a Y Combinator - incubated company that fashions itself as the world's first online venture capital firm — but doesn't bill itself as a crowdfunding site.

Then she grabbed my attention with a simple exercise that demonstrated the downside of multi-tasking: Pons showed me a row of letters and a row of numbers and asked me to transcribe them twice: the first time, row by row as they appeared, and the second time, alternating between letters and numbers.

«I have spent forty years both as a doctor and public servant putting people first,» Price said in the letter.

First, all participants had to spend 20 minutes highlighting as many letter e's as they could find in a 3,500 - word text.

A response to the inability of the Reform party to elect candidates east of the prairies, the letter was first known as the «Harper plan,» although today it is usually referred to as the «firewall» letter.

As a first step, your bank will inform you, either through a phone call or letter, that your loan payment is past due.

A letter to the First Daughter of Silicon Valley, as her parents vow upon her birth to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares.

In a letter to irate classmates, Zuckerberg gives his first apology to make the news: «I hope you understand, this is not how I meant for things to go, and I apologize for any harm done as a result of my neglect to consider how quickly the site would spread and its consequences thereafter... I definitely see how my intentions could be seen in the wrong light.»

The key to why the earnings aren't good enough and the stock is falling is this line in the company's shareholder letter: «Revenue came in at the low end of our guidance range because brand marketers did not increase spend as quickly as expected in the first quarter.»

As I write this letter from the Maine woods, the S&P 500 has just cleared 1,700 for the first time.

Ancillary agreements (such as the Investor Rights Agreement, Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement, Voting Agreement, Indemnification Agreements and Management Rights Letter) have been executed and delivered;

Editorial Note: This is the first of six posts in the Life section that is a collection of letters from writers as varied as the choice of topics.

Would you care to explain how it is that «primitive sheep herders» as most of you love to derogatorily call them were able to in and of themselves write scripture such that the first two books Genesis & Exodus spell TORAH = LAW for every equidistant letter sequence of the 50th letter... and does the same backwards HAROT for Numbers & Deuteronomy, and the 3rd book that they're pointing towards Leviticus, every 7th letter (7 is God's number for perfection) spells YHWH = The name of God.

First, they chemically synthesized the genome of M. mycoides, that goat germ, which with 1.1 million «letters» of DNA was twice as large as the germ genome they'd previously built.

But the Christians in the churches at Ephesus, Colossea, and Asia Minor who first heard these letters read aloud would instantly recognize Peter and Paul's version of the household codes as a sort of radical Christian remix of familiar Greco - Roman philosophy.

Wandering washed but barely lettered out of the wilderness, she is as close a figure to those the first Church missionaries to Europe found as I suspect American literature will ever see, or is capable of seeing.

Each flower, each leaf, every greeting from a friend, every letter from a distance, every poem and every song strikes with double impact, as if we were sensing them for the first and for the last time.

In comparison to the New Testament where Paul's letters were written starting 15 years after Jesus» ascension, the first gospel, Mark written 25 years after (Peter was the source of Mark), Matthew who was an eye witness at 35 years, and Luke 35 years as a careful Roman / Greek trained historian who interviewed living eye witnesses such as Mary, mother of Jesus.

First of all, we should try as hard as we can to carry out both the spirit and the letter of the Council.

From the first introduction of Bartleby as «pallid,» to his imprisonment in «the Tombs,» to the postscript's rumor of «dead letters,» Melville plays with common phrases that mention death, restoring to these dead metaphors more and more of their original morbid meaning.

The deficiency in Jewett's commentary is connected mainly, however, to his enthusiastic embrace of another stream of scholarship, one that derives not from an interest in Paul's theological argument as such but from a confidence in the ability of historical - criticism to explain every aspect of the letter in such fashion that it not only is intelligible within its first context (something everyone acknowledges is important), but is restricted in its significance only to that first context.

In Reynolds v. United States (1878), a case rejecting a claim that it was unconstitutional to prosecute Mormons for polygamy, the Supreme Court accepted Jefferson's «wall of separation» letter as the «authoritative» interpretation of the First Amendment.

In the end, Paul's message in the first half of his letter to the Romans points to one single truth: Because God has done everything necessary as far as our eternal life is concerned, there is absolutely nothing we (or anyone or anything else) can do to lose our eternal life once we have it.

The idea that Catholic just war teaching begins with a «presumption against war,» more recently phrased as «a strong presumption against the use of force,» first appears in the United States bishops» widely read 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace.

Then there is the sad and, to my mind, unmistakable fact that people who have adopted the so - called «presumption against war» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq War.

In the first century, Clement referred to the scriptures as the «true utterances of the Holy Spirit» (1 Clement 1:45); in the second, Athenagoras argued that «God moved the mouths of the prophets as if they were musical instruments» (A Plea For the Christians), and Augustine said that «the authors of holy Scripture were totally free from error» (Letter 82.3).

As the good news spread, the first - century readers of the Apostle Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians (and most readers since) had an acute sense of what it meant that «the last enemy to be destroyed is death (1first - century readers of the Apostle Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians (and most readers since) had an acute sense of what it meant that «the last enemy to be destroyed is death (1First Letter to the Corinthians (and most readers since) had an acute sense of what it meant that «the last enemy to be destroyed is death (1 Cor.

Studying the Bible in his cell, he was struggling to understand what the apostle Paul meant in his letter to the Romans: «For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed — a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: «The righteous will live by faith»» (1:17).

The first letter of Peter was written to a suffering church, which is why, as we shall see, it has so much to say about Jesus as the Suffering Servant.

The first was known as the step text, most easily seen if we designate the first word by the letter «a,» the second by «b,» and so on.

Descartes himself acknowledged that his cogito ergo sum is already fundamental in Augustine's philosophy (letter to Colvius, 14 November, 1640), and he believed that his philosophy was the first to demonstrate the philosophical truth of the doctrine of transubstantiation, and could go so far as to claim that scholastic philosophy would have been rejected as clashing with faith if his philosophy had been known first (letter to Mersenne, 31 March, 1641) Indeed, nothing is more revolutionary in modern philosophy than its dissolution of the scholastic distinction between natural theology and revealed theology.

Descartes» was the first philosophy to incorporate this revolutionary transformation, but Descartes believed that God is the universal cause of everything in such a way as to be the total cause of everything (letter to Elizabeth, 6 October, 1645), and such a totality of God is profoundly deepened not only in Spinoza but throughout German Idealism.

Muslim contributions to the debate, such as the first Open Letter, have qualified this doctrine of transcendence, not least affirming God's basic rationality in terms of basic categories intelligible to us.

The historian of non-violence, William Robert Miller, says that the first explicit reference to non-violence in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott came from a white librarian, Juliette Morgan, who compared the boycott to Gandhi's salt march in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser on December 12, 1955.35 The development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's arose partly from belief in pacifism as an expression of love in the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Society of Friends from whom many leaders of the movement for racial justice came.

I thank Fr Simon Hayes for his constructive response (letters, June 2014) to my positing of «mind as a metaphysical first principle» such that «being - known - by - mind is a relationship constitutive of and causative of a creaturely thing».

As intellectuals, they necessarily immerse themselves in the wisdom of this world; as Christians, they understand that wisdom to be in considerable tension with what St. Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians (1:18 - 22), called the folly of the GospeAs intellectuals, they necessarily immerse themselves in the wisdom of this world; as Christians, they understand that wisdom to be in considerable tension with what St. Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians (1:18 - 22), called the folly of the Gospeas Christians, they understand that wisdom to be in considerable tension with what St. Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians (1:18 - 22), called the folly of the Gospel.

The early Christians worshipping in the catacombs had the fish as their symbol because ichthas, the Greek word for fish, was what they got when they took the first letters of the words, «Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Savior.»

In July 1982, treating of both virginal celibacy and marriage as «gifts of God», John Paul II took up the difficult passage we have just mentioned, in St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians: «It is well for a man not to touch a woman.

But we may be sure that it was as a sermon and not as a letter that it first appeared.

The day I shared my story with a friend for the first time, I felt as though I was taking off all my letters and laying them in front of her.

As I mentioned on Monday, the Christians in the churches at Ephesus, Colossea, and Asia Minor who first heard these letters read aloud would instantly recognize Peter and Paul's version of the household codes as a sort of radical Christian remix of familiar Greco - Roman philosophy regarding household structurAs I mentioned on Monday, the Christians in the churches at Ephesus, Colossea, and Asia Minor who first heard these letters read aloud would instantly recognize Peter and Paul's version of the household codes as a sort of radical Christian remix of familiar Greco - Roman philosophy regarding household structuras a sort of radical Christian remix of familiar Greco - Roman philosophy regarding household structure.

The Apostle Paul writing to the Corinthians, in his first letter told them as follows: 1Co.

Although in issuing Lumen Fidei as the first encyclical of his papacy, Pope Francis might not have offered the world a programmatic outline of his pontificate, shortly afterwards he gave a clear hermeneutical key for interpreting Lumen Fidei also as a «Franciscan» encyclical — in a letter to the editor of an Italian newspaper whose editorial had questioned the relevance of the encyclical (as well as the notion of faith itself).