Though this case was ostensibly based on "stubborn facts"--from John Adams' frequently cited quotation--it turned out to be long on innuendo and very short on actual facts.
But the other two references -- to Franklin Roosevelt by name and to Abraham Lincoln by quotation -- started me thinking, and worrying, about how our president sees himself in relation to the other 42 men that have held his job. (Grover Cleveland was president twice in nonconsecutive terms).
Not to worry: Once Ambrose stops sulking and comes up with a credible mea culpa, he too will be restored to good standing within the punditocracy, and once again will see his words appear frequently in national magazines--within quotation marks and attributed to him in the text.
Thatcher is well-known for her quotation of the Prayer of St Francis after her 1979 election victory.
An opera score to William Shield's "Rosina, " first performed at Covent Garden in 1782, contains a quotation of the melody over a bagpipe-like drone of bassoons and clarinets.
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When Grant Thornton is asked to submit a request for quotation, they now do a company-company relationship analysis to see who they know at the prospect and how well they know them.
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Shares in the 35 suspended firms - which are not traded on stock exchanges - are listed instead on the so-called Pink Sheets electronic quotation service, which does not require brokers to investigate the background of the companies.
Krasinski is winning as the straight, clean-cut young athlete -- he's the only one who doesn't seem to be acting in quotation marks, and he's got a talent for physical comedy -- but when it comes to the crunch, when he should be wrestling with his conscience or fighting for his woman, the Bullet's simply not there.
Others lament that the decision seems to be written for a high-brow rather than a high-school audience, and selective quotation apart leaves great potential for misunderstanding and dispute.
He was, for instance, the first to spot that the Times had attacked John Ashcroft, the conservative attorney-general, with a truncated and misleading quotation lifted from another newspaper.
During the interview, on Sunday, he was questioned over suggestions he had lied about having an extra-marital affair and had made up a quotation, for which he had been dismissed, while working as a journalist on the Times newspaper.
The SEC is considering whether these IOIs should be subject to order-handling rules and made part of the public centralized quotation system.
That may account for the spiteful glee with which some critics attacked him when it was discovered he hadn't put quotation marks around certain passages in his books that had been taken from other works--even though all those passages were fully footnoted.
Which means this "corrected" version of her book--a steady seller off the backlist--had only been brought up to Ambrose code: footnotes, but no quotation marks around the borrowed passages.
Stocks in the Over-The-Counter market are quoted on systems like the OTC Bulletin Board, an electronic quotation system, and the Pink Sheets, which is not registered as a stock exchange and is named for the color of paper on which its listings of price quotes for companies have historically been printed.
The oft-repeated claim that he does not believe in America's exceptionalism leans on selective quotation from a press conference in which he made it perfectly plain that he did.
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