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Missive


Definition:

  • (n.) Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive.
  • (n.) Missile.
  • (n.) That which is sent; a writing containing a message.
  • (n.) One who is sent; a messenger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (2) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (3) This week another couple of reader missives piqued our attention.
  • (4) The letter follows a missive that Murphy sent a month ago to Nascar boss Brian France, asking him to reconsider the NRA sponsorship.
  • (5) I have to read so much rubbish here that I'm impressed with any missive that shows even a modicum of intelligence.
  • (6) Perhaps not, if this missive from our an at Wembley, Davidde Corran, is anything to go by: From the Wembley seats to the San Francisco 49ers fans occupying so many of them, the first of four annual Jacksonville Jaguars games has quite the red tinge.
  • (7) Back in Duran Duran's heyday, the only communal fan experiences were concerts, playground discussions or sporadic missives from distant pen pals.
  • (8) Not only does it beggar belief that Ms Proudman could have inferred any slight from such an innocuous missive, it also makes me fear for the next generation of women.” She also criticised the “armies of Feminazis” who had supported Proudman.
  • (9) Wilshaw complains in his monthly missive that rule changes about overseas schools are making the problem worse.
  • (10) This was strange enough – not least since his missives to me were peppered with the sort of text abbreviations used by teenagers (such as "Wrong u r ...").
  • (11) Its existence only came to light in October when the man who delivered the missive, Mansoor Ijaz, a mysterious American businessman of Pakistani origin, wrote about it, kicking off the current storm, which quickly made it all the way to the Pakistani supreme court.
  • (12) The subject of and reason for most of these letters follow a theme which needs a little explanation even though the author converses clearly and precisely in his missives.
  • (13) Meanwhile their two sons were trying out their own trash-talking skills in this rather bizarre green screen face off (presumably allowing chroma key footage of dinosaurs and car chases to be added in later): Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Though by the time Mayweather had endured that final bout of dad-dancing at the press conference, even the man who lives for showmanship seemed to have lost his appetite for it: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.38am BST Kevin is back All those knockdowns in the last fight were probably rather avoidable, as Kevin is quick to point out in his latest missive: The referee in the junior-feather (super-bantam in our argot) fight between Leo Santa Cruz from LA and the old Venezuelan Alexander Munoz was one Vic Drakulich.
  • (14) Just time for another missive from Niki Betkerur (54 min), who's here to make me feel guilty for comparing her to a Glasgow drunk from the 1970s.
  • (15) U voted for air strikes in Syria,” this historic missive read .
  • (16) So it gives me great pleasure to include this missive from a man who scored one of the best hat-tricks I've ever seen at Bramall Lane against Stockport in 1997 – Jan Aage Fjortoft .
  • (17) The last missive said simply, "You are a massive waste of space."
  • (18) "For the church fathers, homosexuality is the most disgusting and unclean sin," he railed in a nine-page missive made public last week.
  • (19) In a missive replete with the same awesome dignity he brought to Cheggers Plays Pop and that Channel 5 naked gameshow, Mr C referred me to his website, saying: '"I say yes to everything'!!!
  • (20) Look for low-missivity glass with a high energy rating – the Energy Saving Trust recommends B or above.

Written


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Write
  • () p. p. of Write, v.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (2) The programs are written in Fortran and are implemented on a Rank Xerox Sigma 6 computer.
  • (3) Tracks were almost exclusively written on tour, including this jolting number, with an additional four tracks recorded in the studio.
  • (4) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
  • (5) Candidates for a counselor-training program (136 Ss; 86% women; average age 44 yr.) took the GAIT in 18 groups and completed written forms for staff screening.
  • (6) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
  • (7) Physician responses to sequentially presented written clinical information were audiotaped.
  • (8) Liekens, who has been called the "leading lady in sexology", has written several books including The Vagina Book, The Sex Bible and Her Penis Book.
  • (9) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
  • (10) However, unmarried women under 18 must obtain parental consent or written permission from their legal guardian or from a judge to undergo the operation.
  • (11) • Written, oral and video statements of self-incrimination and self-renunciation by the detainees, apparently induced by the authorities, have been released through official media channels (for example, lawyer Zhang Kai was induced to make such a statement, which he later retracted).
  • (12) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (13) The pope has written in his encyclical of the urgent need to reduce climate change gases.
  • (14) I was inspired by and, in this article, refer to videotapes of consultations and therapy sessions shown at an international conference on constructivism and family therapy in Sulitjelma, Norway, June 1988, and to written material from the Tromsø group (Tom Andersen and Anna M. Flåm), the Milan team (Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin), and the Galveston team (Harlene Anderson and Harold Goolishian).
  • (15) The script is taken almost entirely from Charles Webb 's excellent novel, which itself is sparely written and led by dialogue.
  • (16) The four are the spoken language, the written language, the printing press and the electronic computer.
  • (17) In the wake of her win, Aung San Suu Kyi has written to Min Aung Hlaing, the president, Thein Sein, and the parliamentary Speaker, Shwe Mann, requesting a meeting to discuss the election and “national reconciliation”, according to the National League for Democracy Facebook page.
  • (18) The marks achieved by students vary significantly with the type of matriculation examination written.
  • (19) Required written reports of each student's longitudinal-care experiences were analyzed to identify student-perceived benefits of extended patient contact.
  • (20) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.