Sentences with phrase «public letters like»

The press had rapidly taken hold in European monasteries, workshops, and universities, and it was soon scattering Luther's sermons and public letters like flying leaves (Flugblätteras) in Latin, German and other languages across the continent.

Not exact matches

Cook's «We fell short» letter is a good instruction manual for how company CEOs can respond to a public failure like a botched product launch, but we think it could be better.

Woah, there, rzzzll... are you saying it is inappropriate to post one's ideas in public fora... in big letters... like you did in this comment thread?

Like all texts prepared for public reading, the letter achieves its entelechy in oral performance.

The letters were sent to men who were appointed to public office, such as the governors at Basra and Kufa, and also to people like Mu`awiya.

At the same time, throughout August, Luther was composing a formal and personal letter to the young Emperor and a public Offer and Protest — these were personal matters and both texts he discussed in detail with Spalatin in sharp distinction from his polemical works about which he seldom consulted anyone once he had settled the truth of the matter in his own mind, and the text began to flow like molten metal.

Watchdog groups sent a letter to JCOPE calling on the commission to revise its rules so authority heads (like MTA Chairman Joe Lhota) must get the approval of their boards by a public vote before they serve on private sector boards or take an outside job, in addition to getting approval from JCOPE.

The New York Public Transit Association sent a letter to the governor Thursday in support of allowing Transportation Network Companies, a.k.a. ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft, to operate in Upstate New York.

«I would like to register the Committee's concern that Mr Gill's consultancy and the fact that it had already secured clients was announced before the Committee had had the opportunity to offer its advice,» stated the letter, seen by Public Affairs News.

«Like a natural disaster, we didn't create it but our public offices require we address it,» the letter states.

Organizations like the Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy (SHARE) have kept the pressure on state officials — sending a letter to Cuomo signed by two dozen Albany County legislators opposed to the project's fossil fuel - powered status and holding multiple public meetings with the New York Power Authority to express their grievances.

A public letter Carl Paladino has addressed to Andrew Cuomo does not smell like garbage.

Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a long public letter to Bill Gates that drew lessons from earlier philanthropic efforts in K - 12 education — including many billions of dollars wasted by the likes of Ford, Rockefeller, and Annenberg.

Let's be clear, if they do the latter, communities across this country will stand up and defend their public schools and our children — like hundreds of thousands have done so far in open letters and petitions, and like AROS will on Jan. 19.

When asked what kinds of public expressions of support parents would be willing to make, most focus group participants said that they preferred to write letters and testify before Congress or the city council rather than participate in other forms of expression like demonstrating and voting.

Examples include guidance going back to the early 1980s, such as OSEP's Informal Letter to Chief State School Officers on Data Submissions Due During FY 1983 or those superseded by statute or regulation (like OSEP's May 4, 2000 Memo 00 - 14 Qs & As on Obligations of Public Agencies Serving Children with Disabilities Placed by their Parents in Private Schools).

Since it was first passed in 2011, lawmakers have made annual changes to the school grading law, which requires public schools to receive a letter grade based on metrics like test scores and graduation rates.

Like public - school teachers today, letter carriers in the federal civil service in 1955 were paid on a stepped progression schedule with increases based on years of service.

As a parent writing to President Obama explained, in a letter posted at the Washington Post blog of Valerie Strauss, «We have something very important in common: daughters in the seventh grade... Like my daughter Eva, Sasha appears to be a funny, smart, loving girl... There is, however, one important difference between them: Sasha attends private school, while Eva goes to public school... Sasha does not have to take Washington's standardized test, the D.C. CAS, which means you don't get a parent's - eye view of the annual high - stakes tests taken by most of America's children.»

Yet, in spite of all of the drama that has occurred in the time since the ruling, a number of individuals — from parents to politicians to members of the media — have inexplicably opined in letters - to - the - editor, blog posts and the like that the fateful decision made by four of the seven justices on the State Supreme Court would not hurt the charter school movement in Georgia nor stifle the progress that has been made to give parents and students quality public school choice options.

View the query letters of other writers (if the author makes it public) and sort them on a per - agent basis so you can see just what that agent likes or dislikes in a query.

For most authors, the idea of writing query letters is a lot like the idea of public speaking, death, or tax prep.

The certainty of Newman's public voice, like his earnest letters to the press, sounds far in the past.

Reading her love letter in public parks and in several cities, she bridges certainty and confession, like Sophie Calle or Andrea Fraser.

It's hard to follow up something called the Ronald McHummer Sign - o - Matic with a description that does it justice, but we'll try: users were encouraged to make their own McDonald's sign with an appropriate message, and to send a pre-written letter to the company noting the environmental and public health effects of gas guzzlers like the Hummer.

Just like with engineering, the unlicensed ones can still practice, they just can't advise public policy, or offer letters in a legal context.

I like to revisit this topic because I'm very familiar with the field, and I find a bit of disinformation and zigzag in the way the real picture is presented to the public by the EIA, the IEA, the EU, the IPCC and the other letter soup agencies.

Interesting perspective... a letter signed by nine major associations, with broad and diverse membership ranging from public agencies, the insurance industry, highway users, and civil engineers, is characterized as coming from «the automotive industry,» while companies like Google, Microsoft, Comcast, et al. are listed separately, as if representing separate industries.

Just wondering if you think tools like LinkedIn public profiles and / or Visual CV resumes (www.visualcv.com) could eliminate the need for cover letters.

If you deny a rental applicant due to information found on a public record (like a criminal background report or eviction search) you need to provide the applicant with a denial letter and instructions on how they can obtain a copy of the report.

If you are denied based on information found on your credit report or a public record, like an eviction report or criminal background report, the property manager should send you a formal Adverse Action Letter.