depart from the spirit -- if not the precise letter -- of our intentions and aims.
The precise letter of Saudi law is unlikely to impress them.
No member of Congress, whether pro- or anti-contra, should sleep easy knowing that the spirit and intent, if not the precise letter, of acts of Congress may have been violated.
However, having examined the presentation exhaustively, I am forced to conclude that never in any particulars do Dr. Bichlbauer's statements... depart from the spirit -- if not the precise letter -- of our intentions and aims.
Asking any of the musicians who regularly commission and play his pieces – the Arditti Quartet, say, or pianist Nicolas Hodges, or violinist Mieko Kanno, or cellist Neil Hyde – to perform them perfectly, according to the precise letter, dot, and micro-indication of his scores, is not Ferneyhough's abiding aim.
The five Republicans who control the select committee gave no hint of whether they would accept the changes going on in the Capitol, although the chairman, Dick Armey, the majority leader, has said he will not be bound by the precise letter of the administration's proposal.
And she has E.S.D., or E.D.M., or something -- I can't remember the precise letters -- but it's a compilation of different eating disorders.
Every name that I came up with, everybody looked at me and was like, 'No, no.' " But, as with Cy Twombly and his wavy lines, instinct tugged him toward a precise arrangement of letters.
A punch is a precise sculpture — a three-dimensional letter form in reverse — that is struck into a small copper slab known as a matrix to create a mold.
He had a passion for science and a quirky mania for measurements; to organize his desk, he used a ruler and T square, arranging his blotter, stapler and letter opener in a precise pattern.
Consequently, if a precise division in hemispheric processing did exist at the point of fixation, this split would cause beginning letter information to project unilaterally to the RH.
