At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

At first I thought he had missed.

At first Matilda could not believe her own eyes.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

At the first shot Russ had hurled his mount to the left toward the side of the winding draw.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

At the height of the first snowstorm we had, it was impossible for me to get medical attention needed during an emergency.

At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.

At that time consideration will be given to whether in the light of the United States supplies of rice available for Title 1, disposal, India's production, consumption and stocks of food grains, other imports from the United States and countries friendly to the United States, India's storage capacity, and other related factors, any increase would be possible in the portion of the total rice programmed which is currently planned for procurement during the first year.

At first each child should do a kick-up by himself so that the teacher can determine those ready to work alone, and those who need help.

At first Barco was evasive and shifty.

At first the patient felt stronger, and the hemoglobin rose to 13.8 gm., but on Oct. 20, 1958, he complained of `` caving in '' in his knees.

At first I did not know what she meant ; ;

At any rate, Manchester did not lag far behind the first commercial system which was set up in 1844 between Baltimore and Washington.

At the very first, then, Brumidi was required, by the classically pyramidal shape of his central group, to fill in the triangular space above the seated girl on Liberty's right, before starting on the allegorical figures themselves.

At first the kitchen help was tolerant, but ordered their own supply of white bread for themselves.

At the end of the performance, Dave and Max came out into the brilliantly lit foyer among a surge of gowned and tuxedoed first nighters.

At the Fifteenth Anniversary ( 1896 ) as already quoted, Miss Upton projected with force and eloquence the Spelman of the Future as a college of first rank, with expanding and unlimited horizons.

At first glance, not much of a motive for a man of his standing ; ;

At first the Belgian royal family administered the Congo as its own private property.

At this point in time, the area that is currently Afghanistan had a multi-religious population consisting of Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Jews, and others.

At the same time the US-led forces were bombing Taliban and al-Qaeda targets everywhere inside Afghanistan with cruise missiles.

At the 2010 International Conference on Afghanistan in London, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he intends to reach out to the Taliban leadership ( including Mullah Omar, Sirajuddin Haqqani and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ).

At the proposal of the Permanent Delegations of Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey, and as approved by its Executive Board and General Conference in conformity with its mission of “ constructing in the minds of men the defences of peace ”, UNESCO was associated with the celebration, in 2007, of the eight hundredth anniversary of Rumi's birth.

At its peak, the civilisation hosted a population of approximately 5 million in hundreds of settlements extending as far as the Arabian Sea, present-day southern and eastern Afghanistan, southeastern Iran and the Himalayas.

At this time, Chechen fighters were turning away additional foreigners, many of whom ended up in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan to train and await entry to Chechnya.

At the same time, Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan threatened to inundate Tajikistan with thousands of refugees.

At the same time, the government tried to attract investments in building gas pipelines via Iran to Turkey and Western Europe via Afghanistan to Pakistan.

At present, Afghanistan imports more than 320 million kilowatt hours of electricity every year from Turkmenistan.

At this meeting, the Director-General of the ISI at that time, Lieutenant-General Akhtar Abdur Rahman advocated for an idea of covert operation in Afghanistan by arming the Islamic extremist, and was loudly heard saying: " Kabul must burn!

At the same time as she was acting with Russia in the Levant, the British government engaged in the affairs of Afghanistan in order to stem her advance into Central Asia, and fought the First Opium War with China which ended in the conquest of Chusan, later to be exchanged for the island of Hong Kong.

At the same convention, the NDP passed a motion calling for the return of Canadian Forces from Afghanistan.

At the June, 2002, Loya Jirga to select the Head of State, representatives of the US convinced the former king of Afghanistan, 87-year old Zahir Shah, to withdraw from consideration, even though a majority of Loya Jirga delegates supported him, a move which angered Pashtuns who were concerned with the disproportionate power of the Northern Alliance in the Karzai government.

At the time of independence, the indigenous Pashtun people ( including members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement ) living on the border with Afghanistan were given only the choice of becoming a part either of India or Pakistan.

At its zenith, the Mughal Empire, which covered almost the entire Indian subcontinent ( including present day Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh ), was ruled from Delhi, Agra, and Allahabad during different periods.

At their initial meeting the Coalition also adopted the slogan ' Against the racist backlash ', asserting that a war against Afghanistan would be perceived as an attack on Islam and that Muslims, or those perceived as Muslim, would apparently face racist attacks in Britain if the government joined the war ( even though Islam is a religious, rather than ethnic, identity ).

At the latter StWC national convener Lindsey German condemned the bombings but added that “ The only way to end the bombings is to withdraw from Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine.

At a press conference Shah Mahmud Khan stresses the friendliness of Afghan policy toward Pakistan, and maintains that in supporting the " Pashtunistan " movement Afghanistan is not animated by hostility to Pakistan.

At Columbia, Rubin was a student of Zalmay Khalilzad, later U. S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Nations under President George W. Bush.

At the time of Pearl's death, Lévy was visiting Afghanistan as French President Jacques Chirac's special envoy.

At the end of 2006, the Canadian soldier was selected by the Canadian Press as the Canadian Newsmaker of the Year because of the war in Afghanistan.

At the age of 18, Khattab left Saudi Arabia to participate in the fight against the Soviet Union during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

At least eight of the sleeper cell members had received training in Afghanistan.

At the Labour Party Conference in Brighton in 2009, Ainsworth stated that sending reinforcements to Afghanistan may not be possible because of a lack of necessary military resources.