Sentences with phrase «first by the letters»

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By comparing a student's transcripts against a database of tens of millions of past student records, Brightspace's Degree Compass feature can tell what letter grade he or she will get in any given course with 92 % accuracy — before the first class starts.

These female journalists, originally numbering 64 in total, have signed a public letter first published by The Hollywood Reporter, calling Brokaw «a man of tremendous decency and integrity.»

It seems beyond odd that having some random letter inserted between your first and last names would impact others» opinions of your intellectual capabilities, but that's what a study by two European psychologists found.

We then had two follow - up letters that went out over the next few weeks, but both of those were sent by first - class mail, and we estimated it cost about $ 150 for those to be printed and delivered.

Both Fernandes and Baker denied that they planned to sign the letter, the existence of which was first reported Thursday by the BBC.

«DEA will carry out its assessment of the FDA recommendation in accordance with the [Controlled Substances Act]... and hopes to release its determination in the first half of 2016,» the DEA said in a letter to a group of Democratic senators, first obtained by The Huffington Post.

First there was Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman's letter saying the re-route of the pipeline around his state's delicate aquifer was fine by him.

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.

First reported on by the CBC, the letter contained a string of major — and unsubstantiated — allegations, including that the company had been used to funnel money through shell companies to the Gadhafi family.

And one of Royal Caribbean International's first video streams was disrupted by a viewer posting the alphabet one letter at a time, in an attempt to clog the comment feed.

First, many members of Congress are citing growth estimates consistent with your letter to claim that the tax cuts would pay for themselves and that the legislation being considered by Congress would not add to the deficit or debt over the next decade.

In the letter, obtained first by CNBC, Munoz further defended the actions of United employees on the flight: «Our employees followed established procedures for dealing with situations like this.

While Stormy adamantly denied that anything happened in a letter released by Trump's lawyer on Jan. 10, In Touch has an explosive first - person interview — which can be read in its entirety here — with the adult entertainer that was conducted in 2011, in which she details her affair with the then - star of NBC's The Apprentice.

Start by reading his annual letters to shareholders and make a note to attend the mother of all annual meetings, the first Saturday in May in the heartland of Capitalism, Omaha, Nebraska.

And one of Royal Caribbean International's (RCL.N) first video streams was disrupted by a viewer posting the alphabet one letter at a time, in an attempt to clog the comment feed.

The guiding metaphor, the «wall of separation between church and state,» first appeared in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson 14 years after the First Amendment was drafirst appeared in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson 14 years after the First Amendment was draFirst Amendment was drafted.

I'd been invited by some friends to a fall youth rally at the First Baptist Church, and in the fellowship hall one night, the youth leader passed around neon blue and pink postcards that included a form letter to God promising to remain sexually abstinent until marriage.

The letters of Paul — which were the first NT writings — would generally «make the rounds» among these groups of believers, being read aloud to the group by whoever's home they were in (the genesis of «home churches»).

In the words of Henri de Lubac, the distinguished theologian and historian of early Christian exegesis: «The conversion of the Old Testament to the New or of the letter of scripture to its spirit can only be explained and justified, in its radicality, by the all - powerful and unprecedented intervention of Him who is himself at once the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last....

p. 654, 80 - 90 % of the critical sch - olars believe the letter was written by a pseudo Paul toward the end of the first century, early second century.

You are reading deeply into a work that is maligned by mistranslation, making it complete hypocrisy that you follow it to the letter yet completely ignore what Jesus was trying to say in the first place.

Nevertheless, many contemporary critics (including Jewett) insist that everything in the letter must be directed by Paul to the historical circumstances of his first readers: everything in chapters 1 - 13 should be understood in terms of the community differences described briefly in chapter 14: the strong are contemptuous of the weak because of their observance of dietary and Sabbath rules, while the weak are judgmental of the strong for their failure to observe the same.

There are nine, possibly ten, of these letters to the churches (Ephesians being of disputed authorship); ant three others, I ant II Timothy and Titus, called the Pastoral Epistles, may have been written by Paul but more likely were the work of some unknown Christian toward the close of the first century or even later.

It is practically certain that Paul wrote four letters to the Corinthians; first a letter on sexual immorality, lost to us except that a fragment may be preserved in II Corinthians 6:1 - 7:1 where the train of thought is interrupted by this passage (Read II Cor.6 and 7 without this passage and note how much more smoothly it fits together.)

In a letter to parents seen by NBC 6, the school said: «Today, a difficult and necessary decision has been made regarding Ms Jocelyn Morffi, our first - grade teacher.

-- 80 - 90 % of the critical scholars believe the letter was written by a pseudo Paul toward the end of the first century, early second century.

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 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.

In the same letter, we read that the Gospel message «was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will» (Hebrews 2:3 - 4).

Whatever else the first reader of the Pauline letters may miss, he is certain to be struck by what would appear to be an almost complete lack of interest in the words and acts of Jesus.

Christian theologians explore their faith within a particular community and tradition, though «keeping faith with tradition... is not at all being bound by the letter of the law; it is more a matter of the company you keep — or the books you reach for first — when you want to do your best thinking.»

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».

From Father Raymond Brown's book, An Introduction to the New Testament, -80-90 % of the critical scholars believe the letter was written by a pse - udo Paul toward the end of the first century, early second century.

For Christians of the first three or four centuries it referred to the spiritual meaning «hidden» under the letter of the Bible and, by extension, to the spiritual reality concealed in Christian sacramental symbols.

Still, as the minutes floated on and floated by, he kept lying there, trying to remember the first name or at least the first letter or first syllable of the woman — a guess, a hazard, a Matteo Ricci way of trying to remember, trying

Resources: ««Humanae Vitae» Author Pope Paul VI Moves Toward Sainthood,» Catholic News Agency, December 20, 2012 Evangelii Nuntiandi, Apostolic Exhortation of Paul VI (1975) Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (on priestly celibacy), Encyclical Letter of Paul VI (1967) Populorom Progressio, Encyclical Letter of Paul VI, 1967 Humanae Vitae, Encyclical Letter of Paul VI (1968) Declaration on Procured Abortion, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Paul VI, 1974 Persona Humana, Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Paul VI, 1975 Inter Insigniores, Declaration on the Question of Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Paul VI, 1976 Become a fan of First Things on Facebook, subscribe to First Things via RSS, and follow First Things on Twitter.

He turned to the thing that kept him going, the doctrine of Christ, expounded by St John in his First Letter.

In unfolding it, in order to show his own cleverness and reading, and satisfy itching ears, he proceeded with a new method, expounding letters, syllables and proposition, the harmony of noun and verb, and that of noun substantive, and noun adjective... At last he... demonstrated the whole Trinity to be represented by these first rudiments of grammar, as clearly and plainly as it was possible for a mathematician to draw a triangle in the sand.»

They had special abbreviations, ligatures, and a style of lettering developed by scribes in the Middle Ages — the first Bibles were printed in gothic font.

His feeling for peace was probably first aroused unconsciously by his parents» anxieties as they fled France in 1915, and reached its early culmination in the letter of noncooperation that he wrote to his draft board in late 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.

A letter issued by the dean of the College of Cardinals on Friday calls the cardinals to come together Monday morning for the first in a series of meetings, known as general congregations.

As passionate as I was about social justice and alleviating poverty, child sponsorship struck me as an old - fashioned model for giving in which a few select children essentially walked through a breadline to receive meals, schools supplies, and medical attention from far - away white «saviors» whose first - world guilt was eased by letters ensuring that their contributions made a difference.

In his 10th March letter To The Bishops Of The Catholic Church Concerning The Remission Of The Excommunication Of The Four Bishops Consecrated By Archbishop Lefebvre Pope Benedict says the first duty of a Pope and the top priority of his pontificate is captured by St Peter's phrasBy Archbishop Lefebvre Pope Benedict says the first duty of a Pope and the top priority of his pontificate is captured by St Peter's phrasby St Peter's phrase:

In 1930 they asked him, by letter, whether he would christen their first - born, with these unexceptionable words: «In the love of God I name this child Lawrence, and require of his parents that they bring him up in the ways of beauty and truth,» There was to be a little ceremony, a «dedication» to God.

The «canonical» history of Hebrews is somewhat confused by the fact that while it was used by many early Christian writers, some of them were aware that as it stands it can not have been written by the apostle Paul (see Chapter xix) We first encounter clear traces of Hebrews in the letter of Clement to the Corinthians, written at the end of the first century; but Clement does not say what he is quoting from.

Paul, of course, did not have the complete New Testament as we have it today... in fact, as he was writing this letter, he was writing part of this first foundation, but he knew of other letters and accounts of the life of Christ that were written by other apostles, and so he mentions them here as foundation number 1.

The existence of the little letter of Jude is attested by its use in II Peter, but while it may have been known to Polycarp early in the second century the first mention of it occurs in the Muratorian fragment.

While the hedge fund made clear in its letter that it's thinking long - term with Nestle, setting targets on margins to reach by 2020, the first test could come sooner than that: Schneider has promised to reveal his strategy at an investor day in September.

Industry First: Rice Protein Achieves FDA GRAS Status By WholeFoods Magazine Staff - July 14, 2016 Los Angeles, CA — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a letter of non-objection to Axiom Foods regarding the GRAS status of its Oryzatein organic brown rice and Vegotein pea protein ingredients.

Industry First: Rice Protein Achieves FDA GRAS Status By WholeFoods Magazine Staff - July 14, 2016 Los Angeles, CA — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a letter of non-objection to Axiom Foods regarding the -LSB-...]