By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot " insufferable ", and by 1960 she felt that he was a " detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep ".

: " By the step leading up into the sleeping-car stood a young Belgian lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small man ( Hercule Poirot ) muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled moustache.

In two of the books in which he appears — The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The ABC Murders — Hastings plays a prominent role in the resolution of the mystery, with a casual observation he makes at one point in the novel leading Poirot to realise the guilty party: By mentioning that Poirot had to straighten some spill holders and ornaments in Styles, he prompts Poirot to realise that someone had moved them, thus allowing Poirot to discover a crucial piece of evidence, and when he suggests that an incorrectly addressed letter revealing the latest crime in ABC Murders was addressed that way on purpose, Poirot realises that the letter had indeed been wrongly addressed deliberately so that it would not be received until after the murderer had committed his crime, revealing that the murderer had attached greater importance to that particular murder, and wanted to be certain that it was committed.

By contrast, she published only two Poirot novels in the next eight years, indicating the possibility that she was experiencing some frustration with her most popular character.

These were followed by The Blue Train ( 1927 ), Alibi ( 1928, directed by Gerald du Maurier with Charles Laughton as Hercule Poirot ), By Candlelight ( 1928 ), and Journey's End ( 1929 ).

* Kenneth Waltz Theory of International Politics ( 1979 ), examines the foundation of By Bar

By this time, his work reflected the strengthening of his religious convictions and his 1932 book, Vers une conscience plastique, La Forme et l ’ histoire examines Celtic, Romanesque, and Oriental art.

:: By comparing porn star Brandon Lee to martial arts actor Bruce Lee ( as well as his son Brandon Lee, who died during the filming of The Crow and from whom the porn star took his name ) Hoang examines recent changes in the images of Asian men in porn and cinema generally.

The center's permanent exhibit, titled " By the Sweat of Their Brow: Forging the Steel Valley ," examines the community's industrial past using video, photographs, artifacts, and reconstructed scenes.

By the end of the game, the ball would be dark with grass, mud, and tobacco juice, and it would be misshapen and lumpy from contact with the bat.

By the mid 1970s wildebeest and the Cape buffalo populations had recovered, and were increasingly cropping the grass, reducing the amount of fuel available for fires.

By the 19th century, only ten percent of this forest cover remained and the European settlers introduced several new exotic grass, lupin, pine and macrocarpa that gradually supplanted the native vegetation.

By the end of summer in 1872, eighty-five buildings had been constructed where just one year before there had been nothing but a field of prairie grass.

By the end of 1939 a grass airfield surface, internal roads, car parks and electrical power and lighting were set up.

By July 28, the wildfire, fueled by dry grass and winds, reached the edge of Chadron and the college campus.

By 1843 the Sweetwater River valley was a regular wagon trail providing the water, grass and fuel needed on the Oregon, California and Mormon Trails across Wyoming.

Because of these many flows into the bay, its large watershed covers portions of five Florida counties By 2010, measures of sea grass coverage, water clarity, and biodiversity had improved to levels last seen in the 1950s.

By employing a scorched earth strategy, they avoided battles, leaving " earth without grass " by burning the steppe in front of the advancing Persians ( Herodotus ).

By contrast, when feeding on Panicum grass, the drier outer leaves are left alone while they eat the tender, inner shoots and seeds.

By the time they showed up no-one wanted them, as you can't cut grass when it's covered with snow.

By 1881 Lartigue had built a 90 km monorail to transport esparto grass across the Algerian desert, with mules pulling trains of panniers that straddled the elevated rail.

By 1935, the grass runway surfaces had been replaced by murram.

By 1940, cans of Schnabel's powdered grass were on sale in major drug stores throughout the United States and Canada

* By the 2013 season, the " Rock M " and grass berm will be moved closer to the north endzone and the northern concourse will be expanded.

By the beginning of the 1960s the school was still bordered with " scrub and swamp " to its north, " scrub and swamp " to its east, a dirt drain ( or creek ) to the south, plus a tangle of ti-trees, stunted growths, and blady grass across the road, to the west

By eating grass, individual grasshoppers deprive their fellow conspecifics of food.

By the summer of 1944 the airfield had evolved from a grass landing area with a few hangars to a four runway airfield with the infrastructure to house and operate three training squadrons using Barracuda torpedo bombers.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

By the 1850s when they first came into sustained contact by outside groups, there were estimated 7, 000 Adamanese, divided into the following major groups:

By the late 1960s he had started to become interested in scientific areas outside of mathematics.

By moving the lowest 8 KB of RAM outside of reach of the ULA, the CPU could always access it at 2 MHz.

By " art " we may frame several artistic " works " or " creations " as so though this reference remains within the institution or special event which creates it and this leaves some works or other possible " art " outside of the frame work, or other interpretations such as other phenomenon which may not be considered as " art ".

By the late 1920s, New York writers other than Fitz Gerald were starting to use " Big Apple " and were using it outside of a horse-racing context.

By the 1530s, cimarrón bands had become so numerous that in rural areas the Spaniards could only safely travel outside their plantations in large armed groups.

" ( By calling the fulfillment " partial " Clines was drawing attention to the fact that at the end of Deuteronomy the people are still outside Canaan ).

By careful testing and adjusting the proportions and grinding time, powder from mills such as at Essonne outside Paris became the best in the world by 1788, and inexpensive.

By showing how simple unintelligent forces can ratchet up designs of extraordinary complexity without invoking outside design, Darwin showed that an intelligent designer was not the necessary conclusion to draw from complexity in nature.

By now numerous books and articles had been written about the Polgár sisters making them famous even outside of the world of chess.

By the time of Henry II, these posts were increasingly being filled by " new men " from outside the normal ranks of the barons.

By the late 1960s, few major railroads in North America, Europe and Oceania continued to operate steam locomotives, although significant numbers still existed outside these areas.

By June 15, Israeli units were entrenched outside Beirut and Yassir Arafat attempted through negotiations to evacuate the PLO.

Déjacque wrote that: ‘ By government I understand all delegation, all power outside the people ,’ for which must be substituted, in a process whereby politics is transcended, the ‘ people in direct possession of their sovereignty ,’ or the ‘ organised commune .’ For Déjacque, the communist anarchist utopia would fulfil the function of inciting each proletarian to explore his or her own human potentialities, in addition to correcting the ignorance of the proletarians concerning ‘ social science .’"

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

By contrast, outside North American common law jurisdictions, notarial practice is restricted to international legal matters or where a foreign jurisdiction is involved, and almost all notaries are also qualified lawyers.

By contrast, there is no consensus against its validity outside of biology ; recapitulation theory is still considered plausible and applied by some researchers in fields like Behavioral Development, the study of the origin of language, and others.

By 1984 there were over 2, 600 wired broadcasting stations, extending radio transmissions to rural areas outside the range of regular broadcasting stations.

By limiting outside influences, these policies would gradually cause almost complete isolation of Soviet composers from the rest of the world.

By the Middle Ages the shepherd's sling was largely militarily extinct outside the Iberian peninsula, where the Spanish and Portuguese infantry favoured it against light and agile Moorish troops ; a sling projectile, while dangerous even against an armoured opponent, would be lethal against a light and unarmoured foe.

By sunset at 7: 34 p. m., the several hundred whites assembled outside the courthouse appeared to have the makings of a lynch mob.

By Hootenanny < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s release, the Replacements had begun to attract a following outside of Minneapolis.

By contrast in 21st century Britain, nearly half of all children are born outside marriage, and nine in ten newlyweds have been cohabitating.

By the end of August 1861, Grant was given charge of the District of Cairo by Maj. Gen John C. Fremont, an outside Lincoln appointment, who viewed Grant as " a man of dogged persistence, and iron will.