The club was ridiculed during the 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that Ian Rush had told him that " if didn't drink lots of milk, when up, only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".

It appears to me, that the general conclusions established by Mesmer ’ s practice, with respect to the physical effects of the principle of imagination [...] are incomparably more curious than if he had actually demonstrated the existence of his boasted science " animal magnetism ": nor can I see any good reason why a physician, who admits the efficacy of the moral psychological agents employed by Mesmer, should, in the exercise of his profession, scruple to copy whatever processes are necessary for subjecting them to his command, any more than that he should hesitate about employing a new physical agent, such as electricity or galvanism.

Aphrodite had warned him that if he boasted of the affair, he would be blasted by the thunderbolt of Zeus.

Grant, who did not realize who his opponent was, boasted that he would kill " Billy the Kid " if he ever encountered him.

" In the 1980s, she controversially boasted that " on a night when I feel really good about myself, I can walk into a room, and if a man doesn't look at me, he's probably gay.

Mitchell infuriated the Navy by claiming he could sink ships " under war conditions ", and boasted he could prove it if he were permitted to bomb captured German battleships.

While campaigning for Moore during the Cochrane by-election, Wood called Stewart " an honourable, upright citizen, doing the best he could under difficult circumstances " and boasted that " if I have got to tear down the character of an honourable man to build up something that I want, I am not going to build it up.

So great was the response, that the Boston leaders boasted that the town would become the chief grain port of America if the act were not repealed.

A quip that " Colson would walk over his own grandmother if necessary " mutated into claims in news stories that Colson had boasted that he would run over his own grandmother to re-elect Nixon.

* After the first months of the war were over, Benito Mussolini boasted that Italy had conquered a territory the size of England in the Horn of Africa, even if the Italians had nothing to show for their offensive efforts except for the colony of British Somaliland, the Sudanese border outposts of Karora, Gallabat, Kurmak and Kassala, and the area in Kenya around Moyale and Buna.

He made the most oafish, clumsiest sexual advances and boasted that if Violet married him, she would have a life of luxury.

However the messengers got drunk, and one boasted that if he hadn't agreed Medb would have taken the bull by force.

However the messengers got drunk, and one boasted that if he hadn't agreed Medb would have taken the bull by force.

Harry Houdini ( who in his early years billed himself as " The King of Kards ") often boasted that if he saw a card trick performed three times in a row he would be able to figure it out.

Thomas, still stinging from his bad treatment by Stanton, boasted of his ability and determination to oust him from office by force, if necessary.

Hamilton Cuffe wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Augustus Stephenson, " I am told that Newton has boasted that if we go on a very distinguished person will be involved ( PAV ).

The constituency has long boasted fiercely strong Labour support, and at the 2010 General Election, Labour candidate Grahame Morris was elected with a majority of 14, 982 votes.

He was elected as a member of the select Anacreontic Society which boasted amongst its membership such persons as Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Henry Purcell.

The growth of the Aloadae never stopped, and they boasted that as soon as they could reach heaven, they would kidnap Artemis and Hera and take them as wives.

Though by the close of the 1989 season the team boasted a powerhouse bullpen in the AL Cy Young Award winner Bret Saberhagen ( set franchise record with 23 wins in ), two time All-Star Mark Gubicza ( 15 game winner in 1989 ) and 1989 AL Rookie of the Year runner-up Tom Gordon ( won 17 games in 1989 ), the organization felt they were still missing a few pieces that would give the divisional rivals Oakland Athletics a run for their money.

Chivington boasted that he had surpassed Carson and would soon be known as the great Indian killer.

Another god, known as Tecuciztecatl, originally boasted that he would become the sun but was fearful of the pain.

He boasted that Merlin was a liar, to which a bystander replied that the King would not conquer Ireland and was therefore not the king of the prophecy.

These spacecraft boasted a television instrument designed to observe the lunar surface during the approach ; as the spacecraft neared the Moon, they would reveal detail smaller than the best Earth telescopes could show, and finally details down to dishpan size.

* copy of Laocoon, at the time in the Cortile del Belvedere, commissioned by Pope Leo X as a gift to François I. Bandinelli boasted that he would exceed the original, and when he was finished, after a hiatus during the pontificate of Adrian VI, the Medici Pope Clement VII could not bear to part with it, sent some antiquities to the King of France in its stead, and sent Baccio's Laocoon to Florence.

Rowse was a hoarder and boasted that his unpublished diaries, journals, letters and pocket books would keep a Rowse industry going long after his death, in the manner of Boswell or Horace Walpole.

Clarke boasted he would have the best rock band in the city within six months.

His involvement, about which he boasted constantly in future years, was the cornerstone upon which he would build his political career, first as governor of South Carolina and then, for 24 years, as a United States senator.

During his lifetime, Chaney had boasted he would make it difficult for biographers to portray his life, saying that " between pictures, there is no Lon Chaney.

Otto would lecture, bellitle, and even boasted about how much smarter he claimed to be compared to Stark.

At the time of Papen ′ s appointment, Schleicher boasted that " I ′ m not the soul of the cabinet, but I am perhaps its will " The German historian Eberhard Kolb wrote of Schleicher ′ s " key role " in the downfall of not only Brüning, but also the Weimar republic, for by bringing down Brüning Schleicher unintentionally and quite unnecessarily set off a series of events that would to led directly to the Third Reich.

The show was generally run of the mill, but boasted an unusual feature: to keep the show in the spirit of the game, before each commercial break a narrator would ask what the viewer would do to solve the problem facing Dirk.

And he told all the truth about how his and his troops ' arrival had been brought about by the lies of high boyar, and how boyar had boasted that, were to enter the country, all boyars and all country would pay allegiance to, but that this had not in fact happened.

The group boasted that it would seize power in Canada, but the party exaggerated its own influence.

After Duceppe boasted that he would make the Liberals in the province disappear, Lapierre said " kind of language, where you want to make people disappear, there is a bit of a tone of Nazism in that ".

The Garratt boasted high efficiency within its class and rail gauge, making its usage economically attractive in counties which would otherwise have to run larger numbers of locomotives per train or convert their existing rail lines to a larger gauge.

Early C64 ads boasted, " You can't buy a better computer at twice the price.

A Queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, Niobe boasted of her superiority to Leto because while she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven boys and seven girls, Leto had only one of each.

The 12-inch model with SuperDrive remained unchanged in this respect, although each new PowerBook boasted a longer battery life.

This was not a major issue however, as the + 2 boasted a menu system, almost identical to the ZX Spectrum 128, where one could switch between 48k BASIC programming with the keywords, and 128k BASIC programming in which all words ( keywords and otherwise ) must be typed out in full ( although the keywords are still stored internally as one character each ).

Many of these products are potentially dangerous, such as Krusty's brand of cereal, which in one episode boasted a jagged metal Krusty-O in each box.

The couple boasted that they loved each other more than Hera and Zeus.

Laconia at one time boasted three general stores, one on each corner of the town square, three hotels, several millinery stores, two doctors, a funeral parlor, and a saloon.

The town boasted 177 lots, each being 82 feet 6 inches wide and 231 feet in length with one exception, lot # 43 which by necessity was smaller.

The old town is nicknamed " The city of 365 churches " owing to a legend that at its peak, Famagusta boasted one church for each day of the year.

Mrs. Edwards served from August – November 1972, and during that time, the small town of Crowley boasted the governor, a U. S. Senator, and a U. S. Representative ( former Edwards aide John Breaux ), who all lived within a few blocks of each other.

Also, console makers routinely boasted theoretical maximum limits of each system's 3D polygon rendering without accounting for real world in-game performance.

Earlier in his life, he had rejected the teachings of the holiness movement, writing of a certain meeting: " Nearly all blew loudly the horn of sanctification but manifested little of its fruits, such as travail of soul for the sinner and sympathy for the one soul of the altar, to whom none gave a word of encouragement, but each in turn arose and boasted of his holiness.

This was expanded in its 1999 sequel, Star Ocean: The Second Story, which boasted as many as 86 different endings, with each of the possible permutations to these endings numbering in the hundreds, setting a benchmark for the number of outcomes possible for a video game.

At its peak, ROF Glascoed boasted nearly 700 separate buildings, each designated for a particular process and used as required.

He is said to have boasted that he could recite a hundred long ' qasidas for each letter of the alphabet ( i. e. rhyming in each letter ) and these all from pre-Islamic times, apart from shorter pieces and later verses.

The historic Main Street Unionville attracts thousands of visitors each year — as of 2006 it boasted 9 restaurants, including 3 pubs.

Soon, four new companies were formed, each claiming to be the " original " Christy Minstrels, because they each boasted one or two former members of the old troupe.

In addition to one song by Maggie Jackson, each episode boasted two jazz numbers by the " Big Seven.

The temple was once a renowned seat of the Bharatanatyam dance form and boasted of a separate dancer for each of the 32 adavus ( dance movements ).