Here is how Captain Arthur Hastings first describes Poirot:

This is how Agatha Christie describes Poirot in The Murder on the Orient Express in the initial pages:

Herodotus describes how Amasis II would eventually cause a confrontation with the Persian armies.

Alexander's term, " debauched sensory appreciation " describes how the repetition of a circumstance encourages habit design as a person adapts to circumstances or builds skills.

Thucydides describes how Athens's control over the League grew:

According to the majority viewpoint, Acts describes Paul differently from how he describes himself, both factually and theologically.

This describes how the gods revealed to him in a dream the constellations that would be most favorable for the planned construction of a temple.

" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

In the 4th century BC Plato knew oreichalkos as rare and nearly as valuable as gold and Pliny describes how aurichalcum had come from Cypriot ore deposits which had been exhausted by the 1st century AD.

The 4th century BC writer Theopompus, quoted by Strabo, describes how heating earth from Andeira in Turkey produced " droplets of false silver ", probably metallic zinc, which could be used to turn copper into oreichalkos.

This metric contains a scale factor, which describes how the size of the Universe changes with time.

Furthermore, it describes how the density of states is changed on entering the superconducting state, where there are no electronic states any more at the Fermi energy.

Ospina describes how the Bacardi family and Company left Cuba after the Castro regime confiscated the Company ’ s Cuban assets on 15 October 1960 ; in particular, in nationalizing and banning all private property on the island as well as all bank accounts.

The ( n, m ) nanotube naming scheme can be thought of as a vector ( C < sub > h </ sub >) in an infinite graphene sheet that describes how to " roll up " the graphene sheet to make the nanotube.

The definition describes how to produce a light source that ( by definition ) emits one candela.

In his 1806 book Attempt at a Flora ( Försök til en flora ), Retzius describes how chives are used with pancakes, soups, fish and sandwiches.

Retzius also describes how farmers would plant chives between the rocks making up the borders of their flowerbeds, to keep the plants free from pests ( such as Japanese beetles ).

On page 11 of his autobiography Casey at the Bat: The Story of My Life in Baseball ( Random House, 1962 ), Casey Stengel describes how his nickname of " K. C.

* Cortical magnification, describes how many neurons in an area of the visual cortex are ' responsible ' for processing a stimulus of a given size, as a function of visual field location

American media critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

In it, he puts forth a new theory about the nature of space and describes how this theory influences thinking about architecture, building, planning, and the way in which we view the world in general.

Passive cable theory describes how voltage changes at a particular location on a dendrite transmit this electrical signal through a system of converging dendrite segments of different diameters, lengths, and electrical properties.

For example, the following line from the Aeneid ( VIII. 596 ) describes the movement of rushing horses and how " a hoof shakes the crumbling field with a galloping sound ":

Eliot's poem " Lune de Miel " ( written in French ) describes a honeymooning couple from Indiana sleeping not far from the ancient Basilica of Sant ' Apollinare in Classe, ( just outside Ravenna ), famous for the carved capitals of its columns, which depict acanthus leaves buffeted by the wind, unlike the leaves in repose on similar columns elsewhere.

Further developments of this technique included clausulae, conductus and the motet ( most notably the isorhythmic motet ), which, unlike the Renaissance motet, describes a composition with different texts sung simultaneously in different voices.

Thus, unlike, for example, Dungeons and Dragons, Rolemaster describes wounds not only in the number of points of damage dealt ( which are then subtracted from an abstract pool of ' Hit Points '), but with specific details of the injury inflicted.

Fenby describes A Mass of Life as standing outside the general progression of Delius's work, " a vast parenthesis ", unlike anything else he wrote, but nevertheless an essential ingredient in his development.

The genus name Aegypius is a Greek word ( αιγυπιος ) for ' vulture ', or a bird not unlike one ; Aelian describes the aegypius as " halfway between a vulture ( gyps ) and an eagle ".

The party ( unlike most others ) allows for the organisation of internal factions ( which it describes as platforms ), the intention is to ensure that socialists can work together on the issues on which they agree, however to respect the opinions of other socialists on the issues on which there is dispute.

Crusoe describes Friday as being a Native American, though very unlike the Indians of Brazil and Virginia.

The silence and darkness he describes as unlike anything he had ever experienced before or since.

The present book describes the hedonist ' Yang ' chapter as ' so unlike the rest of that it must be from another hand … The thought is certainly very different, and it does show the signs of editing and interpolation by the Taoist author … But although close scrutiny generally reveals marked differences in style between the body of the book and passages borrowed from earlier sources, I could find none to distinguish the hedonist chapter from the rest.

This material forms what Erben describes as an Unaffiliated or Disinterested Group, i. e. spatial locale may be all inhabitants had in common, unlike Intentional Groups, with explicit shared interests, found in more traditional prosopography.

On the DVD commentary, executive producer Julie Gardner and Billie Piper briefly discuss this ending, which Gardner describes as featuring Rose's death ; unlike Davies, Gardner expresses doubts that it will be issued on DVD ( it was not included in the Series 1 DVD set ).

The 1980 1st-Edition AD & D module Queen of the Demonweb Pits describes the Demonweb Pits as an environment quite unlike the Prime Material Plane, stating that many magical spells and effects do not function as expected here.

What is known is that Asha ' man supposedly describes someone who will always fight for a just cause, similar to the real-world concept of a Paladin and not unlike to the original meaning of their Aes Sedai legacy, which is " Servants of All ".

He also describes the effects magnets have upon one another, showing that like poles repel each other and unlike poles attract each other.

It describes in detail Ali's repeated use of the " right-hand lead " in the early rounds, a rarely-used punch in professional boxing because it opens the boxer up for easy attack, and therefore the punch that Foreman was least prepared for.

Michael Brown describes James as an ' able, aggressive and opportunistic politician ' whose chief aim was to establish a monarchy that had stature and was free from the confrontations that had beset his father's reign.

Asceticism ( from the, áskēsis, " exercise " or " training ") describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various worldly pleasures, often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals.

In the Coen Brothers 1998 motion picture The Big Lebowski, the fictional chief of police describes it thus: " We've got a nice, quiet beach community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet ".

In the final version we are presented instead with, as Michael Robinson describes it in The Long Sonata of the Dead: A Study of Samuel Beckett, “ the three corners of love ’ s eternal triangle ( the emphasis here is on the eternal ) … They have no names, simply the designations M, W1 and W2 which aim at anonymity but also stand for all men and women who have, like them, been caught up in a three-part love affair ,”

One essay describes the huge difficulty of negotiation when regime change is a war aim on either side of a conflict.

The ISPO describes itself as " a growing association of citizens world-wide who aim to use their votes in a new, co-ordinated and effective way to drive all nations to co-operate in solving our planetary crisis ".

A regulative ideal can be expressed in the form of a description, but what it describes is an ideal state of affairs, a condition of being that constitutes its aim, end, goal, intention, or objective.

The European Central Bank has similar mechanisms for their operations ; it describes its methods as a four-tiered approach with different goals: beside its main goal of steering and smoothing Eurozone interest rates while managing the liquidity situation in the market the ECB also has the aim of signalling the stance of monetary policy with its operations.

On the first page of Being and Time, Heidegger describes the project in the following way: " our aim in the following treatise is to work out the question of the sense of being and to do so concretely.

A flora is a book or other work which describes the plant species occurring in an area or time period, often with the aim of allowing identification.

It describes itself as a national campaign with the aim of alerting British society to a perceived threat of fascism and the far right.

It describes itself as a national campaign with the aim of alerting British society to a perceived threat of the far right — in particular the British National Party ( BNP ) — gaining a foothold at local, national and European elections, arguing that " there is a real danger that the BNP could get a significant platform in elected institutions.

" The slogan describes the party's aim to encourage people to reduce their consumption, to be more environmentally and socially conscious, and to focus on real values.

With the aim of revealing aspects of the department's Indian health administration in this early period, this article describes the creation and workings of two hospitals on Indian reserves in southern Alberta.

Design tools aim at producing a blueprint of the service, which describes the nature and characteristics of the interaction in the service.

The part that describes the aim, foundation, and methods of the science of history is valuable ; but what is most distinctive in Buchez's theory is the division of historical development into four great epochs originated by four universal revelations, of each epoch into three periods corresponding to desire, reasoning, and performance — and of each of these periods into a theoretical and practical ageis merely ingenious ( see Flint's Philosophy of History in Europe, i. 242-252 ).