The political memoirs of Vyacheslav Molotov, published in 1993, claimed that Beria had boasted to Molotov that he poisoned Stalin: " I took him out.

Although he never personally took part in military campaigns, he boasted of his successes in the prefaces to his laws and had them commemorated in art.

For instance, in 2000 a jury in Provo, Utah, took only a few minutes to clear Larry Peterman, owner of a Movie Buffs video store, in Utah County, Utah, a region which had often boasted of being one of the most conservative areas in the US.

Within 30 years of the Iron Work's founding, Elk Rapids had become the county seat of Antrim County ( which Bellaire took from Elk Rapids in 1880 ), plus the town boasted a cement plant, a chemical plant, a depot on the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad, and a population of nearly 2000.

Shortly afterward came his best-known work, the Gothic novel Vathek ( 1786 ), written originally in French ; he boasted that it took a single sitting of three days and two nights, though there is reason to believe that this was a flight of his imagination.

Another Muslim author reports a conversation that took place in the 8th century between a follower of Islam and the exilarch, in which the latter boasted ; " Seventy generations have passed between me and King David, yet the Jews still recognize the prerogatives of my royal descent, and regard it as their duty to protect me ; but you have slain the grandson < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > of your prophet after one single generation " p. 125.

During the 1967-68 season, Napoli's squad boasted talents along with Sívori such as Dino Zoff and José Altafini, the club took A. C. Milan all the way in the battle for the Serie A championship ; Napoli eventually finished as second.

By 1712, when Antoine Crozat took over administration of the colony by royal appointment, the colony boasted a population of 400 persons.

He boasted that even the gods could not kill him and Poseidon, upon hearing this, split the rock with his trident, causing Ajax to eventually drown.

" When his wife reported to him that his interpreter's wife had boasted of her own husband's greatness, R. Abbahu simply said, " What difference does it make which of us is really the greater, so long as through both of us heaven is glorified?

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 ".

He said that " none that go unto her may return "-in fact, he thanked God for having saved him from its influence, and boasted of possessing no knowledge outside the Torah.

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

Artaxerxes tried to claim the glory of having killed his brother himself, but when Mithridates boasted of killing Cyrus at court while flushed with wine, Artaxerxes had him executed for making him out to be a liar.

During this time, undercover officers from the RUC had recorded months of discussions with Adair, in which he boasted of his activities, producing enough evidence to charge him with directing terrorism.

" He boasted " No son-of-a-bitch ever knocked me off my feet ," but that claim was ended in December 1952 at the hands of Danny Nardico when Nardico caught him with a hard right in the seventh round.

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

He boasted of having hanged 300 rebels and of leaving the rest so terrified that, " a man might now travel the whole country and none molest him ".

Besides providing him with the income he required — he was a patient, effective salesman and later boasted that he was never thrown off of a farm — the job gave the now 21-year-old Brownlee his first glimpse of Western Canada.

Lafayette boasted in 1792 that he had become an American citizen before the French Revolution created the concept of French citizenship, and in 1803 and 1804, President Jefferson offered to make him Governor of Louisiana.

In 1701 he rescued the young alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger, who had fled from the court of the king of Prussia, Fredrick I, who had expected that he produce gold for him as he had boasted he could.

In 2008, Jim McAuley, a soldier who boasted on Facebook that he had served with the SAS and killed more than 100 people, was termed a " Walter Mitty " by genuine soldiers who exposed him as a fantasist, forcing his resignation from the army.

" Edgar Snow went even further, calling him " one of the most intelligent and efficient commanders boasted by any army in the world.

26 ); this is held to prohibit drugs and doctors. His opposition to the astronomical determination of the festivals, of which he boasted to the calif, led him to declare astronomy as a branch of the astrology and divination forbidden in the Bible, thus undermining the very foundation of the rabbinical calendar.

Weebl can be immature and arrogant in most parts, as in the cartoon " Team Laser Explosion 3 " he boasted what a hero he was by accusing postmen of being evil, and also being apparently stubborn, he insisted on changing the team logo because it didn't have pictures of him looking hot and sexy.

Karitoki boasted to his friends about his beautiful wife, but no one believed him because they had never seen her.

“ So delighted with this ?” she boasted to him.

Brian, in storyline, claimed his dad was never there for him, mentioned that Lawler never mentioned that Brian was his son on commentary, boasted that he competed at WrestleMania before his father, and stated that he was ashamed of him.

He himself once boasted that sixteen of the bishops on the bench had been birched by him.

Niobe, the queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, boasted of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two.

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.

These two battalions boasted only five rifle companies between them ( an infantry battalion normally had 5 companies ).

Their factory boasted having the only steam operated molding machine back in 1907 ; allowing them cost efficiencies passed on to the consumer.

Although the Jin forces boasted 70, 000 men on 600 warships, and the Song forces only 3, 000 men on 120 warships, the Song Dynasty forces were victorious in both battles due to the destructive power of the bombs and the rapid assaults by paddle wheel ships.

Niobe boasted of her fourteen children, seven male and seven female ( the Niobids ), to Leto who only had two children, the twins Apollo and Artemis.

In contrast with Gorgias and others, who boasted of possessing the art of making the small appear great, the great small, and of expatiating in long or short speeches, Prodicus required that the speech should be neither long nor short, but of the proper measure, and it is only as associated with other sophists that he is charged with endeavouring to make the weaker cause appear strong by means of his rhetoric.

He boasted of being the only man to lose money on both The Beatles who he booked at Met Stadium in 1965 and The Rolling Stones who played Danceland sloppily in 1964 to about 300 people.

" Some of the early inhabitants of Liberal even encouraged other infidels to move to their town by publishing an advertisement which boasted that Liberal " is the only town of its size in the United States without a priest, preacher, church, saloon, God, Jesus, hell or devil.

In the early days of the post-Revolution era, Union City boasted the nation's largest Cuban population, second only to Miami, Florida, leading to the nickname " Havana on the Hudson ".

During the 1930s, due to oil profits, the city boasted more millionaires per capita than any other US city, though only for a brief period of time.

Smith never boasted and having a stern personality only rarely was known to have any sense of humor.

Although the men of the tribe frequently boasted of the large animals they had killed, when pressed for details, they admitted that large animals were killed only a few times in a hunter's career.

Although the game boasted original soundtrack music by Brian May ( guitarist of Queen ), only a short intro from The Dark appeared in the final release, while the actual in-game score was done by Mirage ( in the case of the PC version, there was no in-game music at all ).

The defense of the common man led to antiparliamentatism ( Poujade called the Chamber of Deputies " the biggest brothel in Paris " and the deputies a " pile of rubbish " and " pederasts ") a strong anti-intellectualism ( Poujade denounced the graduates from École Polytechnique as the main culprits for the woes of 1950s France and boasted that he had no book learning ), xenophobia, and antisemitism especially aimed against Pierre Mendès-France ( claiming " Mendès is French only as the word added to his name "), who was perceived as responsible for the loss of Indochina.

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.

During the late seventies and early eighties, Drayton also boasted one of the only recording studios in Shropshire, Redball Records.

Established in 1981 by President Anthony Novotny, CASCAR boasted the highest level of stock car racing in Canada and sanctioned Canada ’ s only national stock car racing series, the CASCAR Super Series.

Martin's triumph was Belshazzar's Feast, of which he boasted beforehand, “ it shall make more noise than any picture ever did before ... only don't tell anyone I said so .” Five thousand people paid to see it.

This SLK 32 AMG was the most powerful R170 SLK, and was a direct rival of the BMW M Roadster and Porsche Boxster S. It was only offered with the newly engineered five-gear " SpeedShift " and boasted 35 % quicker automatic shifts.

The two-door only Chantez ( chassis code KMAA ), introduced in July 1972, had a longer wheelbase at than most of its competitors and boasted the powerful 2-stroke " AA " engine also seen in the Porter.

Cao Cao boasted that with only ten sets of horse armour he had faced an opponent with three hundred.