In a letter to P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark in 1936 only three months before Howard's death, Conan is described as standing and weighing when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown.

The comic book heroine Red Sonja is described as coming from Hyrkania, an imaginary locale bordering an inland sea based loosely on Hyrcania and set in Robert E. Howard's fictional Hyborian Age.

In June 2004, Labor's " troops home by Christmas " policy came under fire from U. S. President George W. Bush who, at a White House press conference during Howard's visit to Washington DC, described it as " disastrous ".

Jay Mariotti described Howard's defensive effort as " a terrific defensive job ".

Howard's Hyborian epoch, described in his essay The Hyborian Age ( most recently republished by Del Rey in The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian in 2003 ), is a mythical time before any civilization known to anthropologists.

Much of what was contained in the Sunningdale Agreement found its way into the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which was once described by the then deputy leader of the SDLP, Seamus Mallon, as " Sunningdale for slow learners ", a reference to the failed power-sharing deal of 1973.

The amiable character was usually described as Dillon's " assistant ," but the December 13, 1952, episode " Post Martin ," Dillon described Chester as Dillon's deputy.

For example, lieutenants of Devon in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries appointed deputy lieutenants to the City of Exeter, and were sometimes described as the " Lieutenant of Devon and Exeter " The one exception was Haverfordwest, to which a lieutenant continued to be appointed until 1974.

Sir John Bowring, an envoy from Great Britain, described a meeting with the deputy king ( ouparaja ) of Siam in 1855 in which his host performed on the Lao khene ; at a meeting two days later he entertained Bowring with Lao dancers and khene music.

Thus, Sargon of Akkad described himself as " deputy of Ishtar ", just as the Pope is considered the " Vicar of Christ ".

Rory Stewart described the Marsh Arabs and his experiences as deputy governor in the Maysan province ( 2003 – 2004 ) in his 2006 book, Prince of the Marshes ( also published under the title Occupational Hazards ).

At the SNP Conference in 1979, he was elected the party's Senior Vice-Chairman ( now described as deputy leader ) ( to leader Gordon Wilson ), defeating Margo MacDonald for the post.

Promoted to the position from deputy secretary of defense Domhoff described Lovett as a " Cold War architect ".

In 1468 he is described as " out of Calais ", England's outpost in France, and this connection continued for the rest of his career ; Hastings was " lieutenant of Calais " or governor, and his brother-in-law Donne his deputy .</ ref > He owned a house there, and was a member of the Calais council in 1471, involved in negotiations in 1472, and recorded as there in 1475 and several later years.

Leopoldo Franchetti, an Italian deputy who travelled to Sicily and who wrote one of the first authoritative reports on the mafia in 1876, saw the Mafia as an " industry of violence " and described the designation of the term " mafia ":

Later in a move that was described as absurd by a Slovak journalist, SNS demanded the seat of deputy prime minister responsible for human rights and national minorities.

These working conditions, plus his reliance on a single deputy ( and no clerk or jailer ) indicate that the county is very small in both size and population ; however, in the episode Mountain Wedding, Andy and Barney get up at four o ' clock in the morning to get an " early start " on their trip to the Darling's cabin, which is described as being " up in the mountains ".

Prince Nayef, before being appointed second deputy prime minister in 2009, was generally described as elusive, ambiguous, pragmatic, unimaginative, shrewd, and outspoken.

In English-language reports, he was described as deputy commander of the High Readiness Force Maritime Headquarter.

Avicenna also " described diabetes insipidus very precisely for the first time ", though it was later Johann Peter Frank ( 1745 – 1821 ) who first differentiated between diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus.

At Pentecost the Apostle Peter declared that this gift, which was making some in the audience ridicule the disciples as drunks, was the fulfilment of the prophecy of Joel which described that God would pour out his Spirit on all flesh ( Acts 2: 17 ).

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

University of Chicago Professor Peter Novick, whose work Finkelstein described as providing the " initial stimulus " for The Holocaust Industry, asserted in the July 28, 2000 Jewish Chronicle ( London ) that the book is replete with " false accusations ", " egregious misrepresentations ", " absurd claims " and " repeated mis-statements " (" A charge into darkness that sheds no light ").

Hierarchiology is the term coined by Dr. Laurence J. Peter, originator of the Peter Principle described in his humorous book of the same name, to refer to the study of hierarchical organizations and the behavior of their members.

The fathers of Christianity included those who had been disciples of Jesus such as Peter, Matthew, James and John, as well as others who may never have met him but were either influenced by accounts of his teachings such as the Gospel writers Mark and Luke, or described having spiritual revelations of his divine nature, such as Paul of Tarsus who actively encouraged the founding of Christian communities or " churches " after his conversion.

This process is called chemiosmosis, and was first described by Peter Mitchell who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work.

The 13th-century Cistercian monk and chronicler Peter of Vaux de Cernay claimed it was part of Catharist belief that the earthly Jesus Christ had a relationship with Mary Magdalene, described as his concubine.

Saint Boniface described Pope Gregory II as vicar of Peter in the oath of fealty that he took in 722.

St. Peter Damian is alleged to have described him as " feasting on immorality "; the anti-papal historian Ferdinand Gregorovius wrote that in Benedict, " a demon from hell in the disguise of a priest ... occupied the chair of Peter and profaned the sacred mysteries of religion by his insolent courses.

Contemporary ethical debate is often described as " secular ", with the work of Derek Parfit and Peter Singer, and even the whole field of contemporary bioethics, having been described or self-described as explicitly secular or non-religious.

Reduced to despair, he says, by the curse laid upon him by Peter, Simon embarked on the career that has been described:

The process of comparing multiple conflicting dogmas may require what Peter L. Berger has described as inherent " methodological atheism ".

While he was with the Central Pool of Artists ( a group he described as composed " of bomb-happy squaddies ") he began to write parodies of their mainstream plays, that displayed many of the key elements of what would later become The Goon Show ( originally called Crazy People ) with Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine.

It was originally described by Peter J. Landin as part of his ISWIM programming language definition in 1963.

A quarter of a century later, Joseph Conrad described Amsterdam's trams in chapter 14 of The Mirror of the Sea ( 1906 ): From afar at the end of Tsar Peter Straat, issued in the frosty air the tinkle of bells of the horse tramcars, appearing and disappearing in the opening between the buildings, like little toy carriages harnessed with toy horses and played with by people that appeared no bigger than children.

The Tufted Puffin was first described in 1769 by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas.

In 1861, the decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co .( later described by Nicholas Pevsner as the ' beginning of a new era in Western art ') was founded with Morris, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and Philip Webb as partners, together with Charles Faulkner and Peter Paul Marshall, the former of whom was a member of the Oxford Brotherhood, and the latter a friend of Brown and Rossetti.

British film critic Peter Lloyd, for example, described Edwards, in 1971, as " the finest director working in the American commercial cinema at the present time.

The Abduction of Figaro is a comic opera, described as " A Simply Grand Opera by P. D. Q. Bach ," which is actually the work of composer Peter Schickele.

Peter Drucker described the U. S. system of regulated pension funds providing capital to financial markets as " pension fund socialism ".

The parody is described as " An adaptation of the classic vaudeville routine made popular by Abbot and Costello -- in iambic pentameter.

According to Elvis Costello, who also performed at the Masters Tribute Concert, described Burke's performance as " flawless ": " Aretha was really wailing and Solomon had tears rolling down his cheeks, declaiming, " Bring the boys home " like a preacher, reworking the song as a plea for sanity during the never-ending war.

His task was made easier by the fact that John A. Costello, Taoiseach 1954-57 was a personal friend ; Taft described Costello as " pleasant and unassuming " whereas he had found Éamon de Valera " formal and aloof ".

Archie Costello is a high school upperclassman described as having an uncanny ability to manipulate people: " he could dazzle you with his brilliance " and " disgust you with his cruelties ... that had nothing to do with pain or violence but were somehow even worse.

" Michael Costello of Allmovie has described her performance as " uneven " and has also stated, " Her unique Lady Macbeth is either an exhibition of rank scenery-chewing or a performance of intriguingly Kabuki-like stylization.

As a child, he was known as Copps Costello, the name by which he is described in the 1891 census for Calgary, having been enumerated as Michael William Costello in the 1881 census for Renfrew Village, Ontario.

* In an issue of Q Magazine in 2008 Elvis Costello was described as a National treasure.

Costello has described his relationship with Thomas during this period as " pretty non-existent ".