Gowers in a sentence

Scott, passim and Gowers (2014), pp. vii–xxvii After the 1973 revised edition came out, Bruce Fraser was criticised for referring to "Gowers' work", rather than "Gowers's work".

After Gowers retired from the civil service at the end of the war,Gowers's public service career continued as chairman of several Royal Commissions and other bodies until 1953, and on the board of the National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases until 1957.

Gowers (1951), p. 146 Gowers and his successors revised their advice as usage changed over the years.

Gowers (1973), p. iii; and Gowers (1986), p. iii view were full of "mistiness and grandiloquence".

Gowers (1973), p. x Fraser noted that though Gowers had said approvingly in 1954 that the use of the subjunctive was dying out, it was now, under the influence of American writing, making an unwelcome reappearance in English usage.

Gowers (2014), pp. vii–xxvii Unlike the three earlier revisers, Rebecca Gowers generally avoids merging her own comments with the original text.

The club later released a statement: ''The Western Bulldogs Football Club is continuing to investigate the incident concerning Lachie Hunter on Thursday night, and the involvement of two of its other players, Bailey Smith and Billy Gowers.

It was directed by Bruce Gowers and was shot in 3 hours for a cost of £3,500 at the time at the band's rehearsal space.

Gowers (1951), p. iii The new work consisted of articles, mostly brief, on points of vocabulary, grammar, construction, punctuation and style, set out in alphabetical order, beginning with "Abstract words" and ending with "Write".

Gowers (1951), pp. 1–2 The entry on "Write" was an example of one of the short articles on particular words; it pointed out that "I wrote to you about it" needs the "to" but "I wrote you a letter" does not.

Gowers (1954), p. 1 A substantive objection by Vallins to "the cult of 'plain English'" was his view that verbose phrases lose important nuances when reduced to plain words.

Gowers (1973), p. iii Changing times in the 1960s meant that a substantial revision was needed if the book was to continue to fulfil its purpose.

Gowers (1973, p. vi) With joint authors for the new edition, this could not be sustained, and the change from first person to impersonal removed some of the book's previous character.

Gowers (2014), p. xviii Twenty-five years after the first Plain Words, David Hunt, reviewing the 1973 edition, wrote, "No writer of English at any level, from the most elaborate to the most utilitarian, can fail to derive profit from this book.

Gowers, W. T. (1996), "A new dichotomy for Banach spaces", Geom. Funct.

He praised Fraser for replacing Gowers's dated examples of officialese with modern specimens and updating the text to reflect current trends, but concluded: The Fraser edition was reprinted in hardback three times between 1973 and 1983.

Her practice is to retain Ernest Gowers's remarks and append updated observations in a separate note.

In short, Gowers's warning went unheeded, and issue is being made to labour harder than ever.

In the 1880s British neurologist William Gowers built on Little's work by linking paralysis in newborns to difficult births.

She begins the new edition with a twenty-page preface that includes a biographical sketch of Ernest Gowers and a history of the revisions after his death.