But in this era of cellphones and instant messaging, formal letters of recommendation solicited from friends and associates can seem as quaint as cucumber sandwiches, with buyers and writers alike tempted to treat them as crustless formalities.
Forty years ago, Pope Paul VI could and did choose to disregard the recommendations he solicited from Catholic couples and physicians — recommendations based on the real, human experience of marital love — in issuing his mechanistic prohibition.
Obama told reporters Friday that he had begun to review the recommendations he solicited from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Atty.
They can't offer investment advice, make recommendations, or solicit purchases.
The chairman of the board solicited recommendations from J. Richard Gott, a member of the astrophysics department at Princeton.
Early in the Long Island Transportation 2000 study, sponsored by the Department of Transportation, the agency solicited recommendations, including cross-Sound bridges (Oyster Bay-Rye, Shoreham-New Haven).
But the government, which has solicited recommendations from farm groups on how to streamline the program, must not let industry lobbyists dictate the changes.
Discuss these issues with the advisers from whom you solicited recommendations and with others who have experience across multiple start-ups and whose judgment you trust.
In developing its recommendations, the ERC solicited input from faculty members, students and staff, as well as from alumni and key industry leaders.
Rather than make threats, Captain Chang and his ANA counterpart solicited recommendations from the village elders about how to provide better security in the valley and asked what justifications the elders would need to defend any pacts the U.S. and ANA forces made.
