Blair was sent the script early on in the writing process, and it took eight months of negotiation between Fox and Blair's director of communications Alastair Campbell before Blair could guest star.

Flat glass for windows and similar applications is formed by the float glass process, developed between 1953 and 1957 by Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers, who created a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity.

* Alastair Lynch – Australian Rules Footballer who played 306 game for Fitzroy, Brisbane Bears and the Brisbane Lions, including the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Grand Finals

As Alastair Norcross has said, “ suppose that Homer is faced with the painful choice between saving Barney from a burning building or saving both Moe and Apu from the building … it is clearly better for Homer to save the larger number, precisely because it is a larger number … Can anyone who really considers the matter seriously honestly claim to believe that it is worse that one person die than that the entire sentient population of the universe be severely mutilated?

In 2009, Andrew Roger and Alastair Simpson emphasized the need for diligence in analyzing new discoveries: " With the current pace of change in our understanding of the eukaryote tree of life, we should proceed with caution.

Alastair Sim starred as Inspector Goole, renamed " Poole " for the film, with Jane Wenham as Eva Smith, Eileen Moore as Sheila Birling, Arthur Young as Arthur Birling, Brian Worth as Gerald Croft, Olga Lindo as Sybil Birling and Bryan Forbes as Eric Birling.

* In 2003, Alastair Campbell ( who was Director of Communications and Strategy from 1997-2003 for the UK PM ) in his memoirs The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries alleged that two bugs were discovered in the hotel room meant for visiting British PM Tony Blair planted by Indian intelligence agencies. The alleged bug discovery was at a hotel during PM Tony Blair's official visit to New Delhi in 2001.

These usually included the Parish Postbag, often containing a letter from a parish member ( i. e. minister ) complaining about something or other but cut short " for reasons of space " by the editor ( in the past this was Alastair Campbell ).

There were several private owners after that, including Alastair de Watteville, a descendant of Colin MacDonald who wrote a book about the island, until finally it was gifted to the National Trust for Scotland by Jock Elliott Jr. of New York in 1986 as an imaginative way to honour the 60th birthday of his wife, Eleanor.

Jay Cocks called the screenplay a " snarling, overwrought and somewhat parochial satire on aristocracy and privileged morality "; he called the film " wretchedly photographed ... as if it were shot under floodlights "; in contrast Cocks praised the performances by Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, and James Villiers, but reserves most of his praise for O ' Toole, saying his performance is of " such intensity that it may trouble sleep as surely as it will haunt memory.

In his introduction to The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse Alastair Fowler makes a case for the existence of a third group centering around Michael Drayton and including William Browne, William Drummond of Hawthornden, John Davies of Hereford, George Sandys, Joshua Sylvester and George Wither.

Alastair Campbell was the Labour Party's Press Secretary and led a strategy to neutralise the influence of the press ( which had weakened former Labour leader Neil Kinnock ) and create allies for the party.

He is thought to be based on Alastair Graham ( whose name was mistakenly substituted for Sebastian's several times in the original manuscript ), Hugh Patrick Lygon and Stephen Tennant.

Together with her husband, Alastair Dunnett, she wrote the text for the photography book The Scottish Highlands ( Photographs: David Patterson ), published in 1988.

Alastair John Campbell ( born 25 May 1957 ) is a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Director of Communications and Strategy for Prime Minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003.

* Leukaemia Research, the charity Alastair Campbell fundraises for

On 1 June, Gilligan expanded upon that claim in the Mail on Sunday newspaper, stating that the government's director of communications, Alastair Campbell, had been responsible for the insertion of the 45 minute claim, against the wishes of the intelligence agencies.

* Tony Blair's communications director, Alastair Campbell, resigns, leaving Blair with none of the three key players he has relied on for the last decade left.

On 1 June Gilligan repeated his allegations in an article written for The Mail on Sunday, naming government press secretary Alastair Campbell as the driving force for alteration of the dossier.

Between 1953 and 1957, Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers developed the first successful commercial application for forming a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity.

Robert Alastair Addie ( 10 February 1960 – 20 November 2003 ) was an English actor who was best known for playing Sir Guy of Gisbourne in the television series Robin of Sherwood.

Alastair Pennycook, Suresh Canagarajah, Adrian Holliday and Julian Edge broadly fall into this group and are often described as critical applied linguists.

The move was described as an attempt to " bounce " MPs on the committee into clearing Alastair Campbell of " sexing up " the so-called Dodgy Dossier of evidence into the threat posed by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Hutton described Dyke's approach to checking news stories as " defective "; when Alastair Campbell complained about the story, Dyke had immediately defended it without investigating whether there was any merit to the complaint.

The thrust of the report was similar to the later Gilligan story, but the key allegations in Watts ' report were described in more measured terms and without Gilligan's claim of the direct personal involvement of Alastair Campbell in rewriting the dossier.

During the ascent, as Lousma described the abort modes as they became available, the show's host Alastair Burnet quickly asked Lousma which abort mode he preferred ; " Abort to Orbit " came the quick reply.

converted into EAM ; and ( 4 ) EAM admitted Mitchell Appel, Avi T. Aronovitz, Richard Berenger, Howard B. Sirota and R. Alastair Short ( the “ Shareholders ”) as holders of profits interests and Value Line restructured its ownership interests in EAM as described below.

* RDS, a song by Alastair Galbraith

Scottish musician Alastair McDonald re-worded a traditional song called The Mermaid's Tale, and set the scene on Bell Rock instead of the Eddystone light.

Much of the song is sung in the 1951 film classic Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim.

Alastair Ardoch Morrison, under the Strine pseudonym of Afferbeck Lauder ( a syncope for " Alphabetical Order "), wrote a song " With Air Chew " (" Without You ") in 1965 followed by a series of books-Let Stalk Strine ( 1965 ), Nose Tone Unturned ( 1967 ), Fraffly Well Spoken ( 1968 ) and Fraffly Suite ( 1969 ).

Alastair Moock has a song called Cloudsplitter based on the book, it is on his Album Fortune Street

Cover shot of Alastair Reynolds ' Absolution Gap, from Amazon. com ( see Wikipedia: Images from Amazon. com )

He is a founding member and guitarist of the noise rock trio The Dead C and the free noise combo A Handful of Dust ( with Alastair Galbraith ).

* The novel House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds features a device called the " Universal Actuary ", which aims to predict the future of civilisations in a manner very similar to psychohistory.

They followed this with the Blip 7 ", the Alastair Galbraith Australian tour split 7 " and the Swish CD EP.

* Ensuring Streams Flow, Alastair Telford and David Turner, in Johnson, ed., " Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology ", 6th International Conference, AMAST ' 97, Sydney Australia, December 1997, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 1349, pages 509 – 523.

Herbert's " Misleading Cases ", a satire on the British legal system, also starring Alastair Sim as the Judge as well as playing Leopold Mozart in the 1984 film Amadeus.

Henry Palfrey ( Ian Carmichael ) arrives at the Yeovil railway station and makes his way to the " School of Lifemanship ", run by Stephen Potter ( Alastair Sim ).

*" Medieval Scotland, 1100-1560 ", by David Ditchburn and Alastair J. MacDonald in New Penguin History of Scotland ( Penguin Books, 2001, ISBN 0-14-026367-5 ), esp.

ExtraOrdinary contains the track, " Homage To Young Men ", a piece written and performed by Alastair McIntosh.