Sentence examples for started a letter from inspiring English sources

One morning, when Roald Dahl was seventy-three, he sauntered down to his writing hut, in Buckinghamshire, picked up a pencil, and started a letter.

By Nicolas Niarchos June 27, 2014 One morning, when Roald Dahl was seventy-three, he sauntered down to his writing hut, in Buckinghamshire, picked up a pencil, and started a letter.

Members of the forum are calling on the site's one million monthly visitors to boycott the retailer for "selling women and girls down the river... to make a quick buck", and have started a letter writing campaign urging M&S to reconsider.

Sarah started a letter to another sister and broke it off midway, resuming the next day with the ingenuous remark that, "I was stopped writing on Monday by John coming in for a chat and guess the rest!" Sarah was a cheerful Midwesterner, who, from her correspondence, combined religious fervour with a healthy interest in everyday life.

In the 1970s, together with two other community activists, Dona Dijé started a letter campaign calling on the Pastoral Land Commission of the Catholic Church to support the local women nut breakers who were being forced off their land by cattle ranchers.

They sought help from local politicians and started a letter-writing campaign.

He then started a letter-writing campaign that got the student into college.

It started a letter-writing campaign last week, urging its members to protest to the opera company's board of artistic trustees.

Three advocacy groups have started a letter-writing campaign asking Scholastic Inc. to stop distributing the fourth-grade curriculum materials that the American Coal Foundation paid the company to develop.

Worried that the zone could lure away their tenants, Mr. Klatskin and other landlords in the business district started a letter-writing campaign to derail the application, which he called "an artificial competitive advantage" for a newcomer to the area.

"She said, 'What are you going to do about this one?' I said, 'I can't do anything.' " Opponents of the amendment have started a letter-writing campaign asking Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney and director of vice-presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, to speak out against the amendment.