Sentences with phrase «in preface»

In the preface, author Damien Abbott says, «As one moves from country to country, many different terms are encountered for the same or similar concepts.

An abbreviated version appears in the preface for Poor Richards Almanac, written by Benjamin Franklin around 1758.

In Canada, the Model Code of Professional Conduct of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada states in its preface:

They even claim (in the Preface) that there is an «urgent need for improved interoperability of digital evidence verification».

The new Guidelines explicitly state their purpose in the Preface to help achieve greater transparency and comprehensibility, borrowing language from Alberta's Assurance Fund Guideline.

«Benjamin on Sale» was, as he explained in his preface, an attempt to develop the principles applicable to all branches of the subject, while following «Blackburn on Sale» as a model for guidance in the treatment of such topics as are embraced in the work.

In a preface, Mr. Arnup wrote that «This handbook contains rulings of the Professional Conduct Committee of Convocation upon some important aspects of professional ethics, as well as certain previously published notices from the Discipline Committee, the Canons of Ethics of the Canadian Bar Association and the Rules of the Law Society respecting accounts».

As Susskind explains in the preface to the second edition, «One of the central claims in the first edition of this book... was that the legal world would change more in the next 20 years than it has in the past two centuries.

As Mason notes in his preface, civil law countries tend to prefer to specify the technology and legislate the use of digital signatures — though the EU Directive allows any form of e-signature that the parties accept.

In his Preface to The Guide to Energy Arbitrations, William Rowley QC notes that «if a single industry can lay claim to parental responsibility for the present universality of international arbitration as the go - to choice for the resolution of commercial -LSB-...]

Indeed, a search of the Federation of Law Societies Model Code of Professional Conduct reveals that the word «technology» appears only one time, and that's in the Preface to the Code:

Francis Bacon described it in the preface to his E lements of the Common Law in 1630.

As he writes in the Preface to his book, «[a] nyone who studies the classical treatises soon discovers that, with some adaptations for modern taste and modern legal practice, the classical rhetorical principles are as applicable today as they were 2500 years ago.»

A sketch of the subsequent history of the Code can be found in the Preface of the sixth edition by Leonard J. Ryan published in 1964:

Those years of coaching, she writes in the preface to this book, «left me with strong convictions about what makes for powerful legal writing and an even stronger belief that legal writing is a skill that can be taught and learned.»

Fordham confirms in the preface that his approach to this book remains to focus on the primary sources, the decided cases.

The purpose of the Bali conference, Young wrote in the preface to the program was «to distill and harvest... major scientific findings generated over almost a decade, explore the policy relevance of these findings, and engage in dialogue about future directions of research on the roles institutions play both in causing and addressing large - scale environmental problems.»

So writes UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in the preface to the book Avoiding Global Climate Change, and he is right.

As Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), states in her preface, these chapters collectively provide a «review of the emergence of a new discipline, its core principles and legal techniques, and its relationship and potential interaction with other disciplines.»

McKibben's climate - related writing is characterized by blunt culture - war assertions that make questionable or unfounded claims, such as in the Preface to his 2010 book, «Eaarth» [sic]: «We've changed the planet, changed it in large and fundamental ways.

Here is a comment in the preface to the Canadian climate normals 1951 to 1980 published by Environment Canada.

In the Preface to Climate of Extremes former Virginia State Climatologist Michaels describes how he and other state climatologists were stripped of their titles, and jobs, and told by their governors to à cents â?

I warned about this fakery in the preface to my book [1] in 2010 that you have a copy of.

wrote Charles Mackay in the preface to the first edition of his Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

In his preface to Paul Frederick Bach's 2010 study for the REF, Professor Michael Laughton said, «The outstanding major concern in the work reported here, and one with very serious implications - especially for the United Kingdom with its predominantly island system with inadequate international interconnection capacity - is the extent to which subsidized wind power can, in practice, be used within the system without needing to be constrained off: in other words wasted, or exported at whatever market prices, perhaps disadvantageous ones, prevail elsewhere.»

e.g., in the preface: ``... very often scientific disputes about climate change end up being used as a proxy for much deeper conflicts between alternative visions of the future and competing centres of authority in society.»

and (also in the preface): ``... the idea of climate change has been constructed in such a way as to ensure that it possesses this quality of plasticity.

It reminds me of Soviet science books from the Stalin era, which often had an effusive acknowledgement to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin in the preface, which was then followed by quite good science that had nothing to do with these men and sometimes contradicted their pontifications.»

In the preface to his book on «Climatic History and the Future» H.H. Lamb says: «Recent research...... has rendered more specific the expectation that the beginnings of the next glaciation will be upon our descendants within 3000 to 7000 years.

As Susan Davidson and David White, co-editors and co-curators, write in the preface, Rauschenberg was «always adhering to the aesthetic he once defined as «random order,» he never cropped his images after developing them, stating in an interview: «Photography is like diamond cutting.

In a Preface to his monograph on Hitchens, my Book of the Week, Peter Khoroche writes that «Hitchens» work is still insufficiently known and understood, and his achievement consequently underrated».

THE YEARNING FOR aesthetic purity had been intensifying on the bohemian fringes of Paris ever since the mid-1830s, when Théophile Gautier railed, in a preface to one of his novels, against the expectation that artists and writers promote the prevailing morality.

This is Described in the preface to the exhibition «Dale's past experience in the UK of hospitalization in an outdated mental facility with its confined interiors travels through time and space to collide with his recent investigation into Southern California's exterior streets where those confining institutional walls have ceased to exist.

In the book proper, both René d'Harnoncourt in his preface and I in my afterword call them «decorations,» a term advanced by Robert Motherwell, who served as consultant on the project, and that term stuck.

These rankings were definitively set out in 1669 by Andre Felibien, the secretary to the French Academy, in his Preface to a series of published lectures which he delivered to the Academy.

[58] In 1773 Robert Adam and James Adam in the preface to their Works in Architecture wrote that:

ROBERT MOTHERWELL: And um, Howard remarks in his preface that one of the problems of a French poet is that they're so engrained with French rhetoric uh, how not to speak poetically.

«This canonical essay precipitated a paradigm shift within the discipline of art history,» Reilly states in her preface to Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader (2015), «and as such her name became inseparable from the phrase, «feminist art,» on a global scale.»

Charles Simic sets out his methods and intentions clearly enough in the preface to his Dime - Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell:

In the preface to National Geographic Infographics, a book comprised of the magazine's best infographics from the past 128 years, deputy creative director Kaitlin Yarnall writes about the art department's undertaking: «Things too small (atoms!)

Defoe stressed in the preface that his novel would not be a fiction but a factual report, written by the castaway Robinson Crusoe.

In his preface to Narrow Mist, UCCA Director Jérôme Sans gives his assessment of this tremendously popular European artist: «Erwin Wurm reinvents the vocabulary of sculpture and turns the lexicon — and occasionally his audience — on its head.

In the preface to the 1961 edition of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, Jean - Paul Sartre writes «violence is man re-creating himself».

[73] The word «surrealist» was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire and first appeared in the preface to his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, which was written in 1903 and first performed in 1917.

In a preface to this Web site, I take my online aims out of hiding and into J. - B.

Even though it would be nearly another year before Jiang was named president of CAFA and chair of the Chinese Artists Association (which happened on November 10, 1979), the signal he sent out in this preface inspired a wave of new artists» organizations throughout the country.

In the preface of Certain People, Susan Sontag noted: «Being photographed by Mapplethorpe was different from being photographed by anyone else.

Robert O'Hara, in the preface to his book on Robert Motherwell said:

In a preface, Richard M. Grant, the executive director of the late artist's foundation as well as his son - in - law, writes that the project spanned more than 20 years.

I relate these stories in preface to a rant about Microsoft's ridiculous Xbox Live Arcade refund policies.