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Key and Skinner boarded the British flagship HMS Tonnant on September 7 and spoke with Major General Robert Ross and Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane over dinner while the two officers discussed war plans.
He was surrounded by officers who regarded him as an interloper and who deliberately spoke in Polish, depriving him not only of a part in their discussions but even of the news from the front.
One of the British officers noted that Irina " appeared shy and retiring at first, but it was only necessary to take a little notice of her pretty, small daughter to break through her reserve and discover that she was also very charming and spoke fluent English ".
A later study found that there had been no plots for the overthrow of the revolutionaries by the United States, and that a CIA intelligence gathering mission at the embassy was " notably ineffectual, gathering little information and hampered by the fact that none of the three officers spoke the local language, Persian ".
Éamon de Valera of Sinn Fein had recently won the East Clare by-election ( caused by the death of Willie Redmond ) and on a visit to Currygrane ( his first in eight years ) everyone Wilson spoke to – judges, landowners, police officers, a Redmondite local politician and “ some natives ” agreed on the need for conscription.
Granby supported the government's issue of general warrants and prosecution of Wilkes, but in 1765 spoke against the dismissal of army officers for voting against the government in Parliament.
Furthermore on 6 October 1943 Greiser hosted a national assembly of senior SS officers in Posen at which Himmler candidly spoke of the mass executions of civilians ( the infamous Posen Speech ).
These people were very valuable to RAF Bomber Command, since between them they natively spoke any German accent and hence were capable of countermanding the orders given from the senior officers in the Air Defence headquarters, and so could redirect the nightfighters to other targets or give them orders to land immediately at an airbase.
General Richard Mulcahy also spoke against the Order, disagreeing with the way in which it applied to enlisted men and not to officers.
There he spoke with the commanding officers, including Capt.
He also spoke at the United States Air Force Academy and to United States Marine Corps officers at Quantico.
General Wedemeyer then spoke with Stilwell ’ s staff officers but learned little from them because Stilwell, according to the staff, kept everything in his “ hip pocket ”.
During his time at Virginia Tech, Fox spoke of his experiences to America's next generation of military officers, business executives, and civic leaders.
The report chronicled gruesome details of the events in 1953: how, by spending a meager sum of $ 1 million, the CIA " stirred up considerable unrest in Iran, giving Iranians a clear choice between instability and supporting the shah "; how it brought " the largest mobs " into the street ; how it " began disseminating ' gray propaganda ' passing out anti-Mossadegh cartoons in the streets and planting unflattering articles in local press "; how the CIA's " Iranian operatives pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim leaders with ' savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh '"; how the " house of at least one prominent Muslim was bombed by CIA agents posing as Communists "; how the CIA tried to " orchestrate a call for a holy war against Communism "; how on August 19 " a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister "; how American agents swung " security forces to the side of the demonstrators "; how the shah's disbanded " Imperial Guard seized trucks and drove through the street "; how by " 10: 15 there were pro-shah truckloads of military personnel at all main squares "; how the " pro-shah speakers went on the air, broadcasting the coups ' success and reading royal decrees "; how at the US embassy, " CIA officers were elated, and Mr. Roosevelt got General Zahedi out of hiding " and found him a tank that " drove him to the radio station, where he spoke to the nation "; and, finally, how " Dr. Mossadegh and other government officials were rounded up, while officers supporting General Zahedi placed ' unknown supports of TP-Ajax ' in command of all units of Tehran garrison.
One of the British officers noted that Irina " appeared shy and retiring at first, but it was only necessary to take a little notice of her pretty, small daughter to break through her reserve and discover that she was also very charming and spoke fluent English ".
Armistead often traveled between camps, spying on British officers, who spoke openly about their strategies in front of him.
A security officer alleged that Kopassus ( special forces ) officers had ordered the burning down of a bank ; a taxi driver reported hearing a man in a military helicopter encouraging people on the ground to carry out looting ; shop-owners at a Plaza claimed that, before the riots, military officers tried to extract protection money ; a teenager claimed he and thousands of others had been trained as protesters ; a street child alleged that Kopassus officers ordered him and his friends to become rioters ; there was a report of soldiers being dressed up as students and then taking part in rioting ; eyewitnesses spoke of muscular men with short haircuts arriving in military-style trucks and directing attacks on Chinese homes and businesses.
This phrase was also adopted by Americans around the time of the Revolution, and may be found in abundant references from the early 19th century — often reporting on American officers who sought to convince the tribal leaders with whom they negotiated that they " spoke with a straight and not with a forked tongue " ( as for example, President Andrew Jackson told the Creek Nation in 1829 ) According to one 1859 account, the native proverb that the " white man spoke with a forked tongue " originated as a result of the French tactic of the 1690s, in their war with the Iroquois, of inviting their enemies to attend a Peace Conference, only to be slaughtered or captured.
Her beauty, courage, sound judgment and amiable character endeared her to the officers, including the Duke of Wellington, who spoke of her familiarly as Juanita ; and she was idolized by the soldiers.
The soldiers who were promoted to VCO rank had long service and good service records, spoke reasonably fluent English, and could act as a common liaison point between officers and men and as advisers to the British officers on Indian affairs.

spoke and individually
Arthur Godfrey spoke directly to listeners individually, making him a foremost pitchman into TV era

spoke and group
and, furthermore, I could not presume the implication that I spoke for American artists as a group.
The Hattians spoke a Northwest Caucasian Language, and there is debate as to whether the Hurrian language was also of this group, or a Language Isolate.
" He spoke about ... such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes " she said, adding that on several occasions Thomas graphically described " his own sexual prowess " and the details of his anatomy.
* Acts 19: 6, when a group of approximately a dozen men spoke in tongues in Ephesus as they received the Holy Spirit while the apostle Paul laid his hands upon them.
The linguist and historian Ehret believes that in view of the similarity of the Ziwa / Gokomere pottery to the Nkope of the ancestral Nyasa language speakers, the Ziwa / Gokomere people spoke a language closely related to the Nyasa group.
Besides its urban elite it included a confederation of nomadic peoples who spoke languages of the Teda – Daza ( Toubou ) group.
As John wrote his Gospel after these events, for a Gentile audience, he spoke generically of Jews, rather than specifying a group within Judaism that no longer existed and that would have been unfamiliar to his readers.
The third chapter of the document, which spoke of the bishops as a " college " that, within the Church, succeeds to the place of the " college " or " stable group " of the apostles and is " the subject of supreme and full power over the universal Church, provided we understand this body together with its head, the Roman Pontiff ".
The Alans, or the Alani, occasionally termed Alauni or Halani, were a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language which derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian.
They did not know that Anatolia once spoke languages of the Anatolian language group, or that Lycian was such a language.
One analysis shows that the majority were, however, Hurrian ( a non Semitic group from Asia Minor who spoke a Language Isolate ), though there were a number of Semites and even some Kassite and Luwian adventurers amongst their number.
Both the San and the Nama were Khoisan peoples, and spoke languages from the Khoisan language group.
The more conservative group that emerged from the NSWS split spoke out against what they called the " extreme left " wing of the movement.
( 2006 ) questioning 404 elite Kenyan distance runners found that 76 % of the international-class respondents hailed from the Kalenjin ethnic group and that 79 % spoke a Nilotic language.
When Paul Roux-a pastor who arrived with the main group of Huguenots died in 1724-the Dutch administration, as a special concession, permitted another French cleric to take his place " for the benefit of the elderly who spoke only French ".
A small group ( 1 percent ) spoke German as their first language.
A Buffalo News investigation in 2005 spoke to the sisters and brother of Fred Lennox, a Scientologist who, according to them, was being manipulated and exploited financially by the group.
She revealed that, once her parents left and she remained in the group, she had been forbidden to answer the telephone in case she spoke to them and that her parents only restored occasional access to her by threatening legal action.
Also of that group, 2. 9 % spoke a language other than English at home.
They spoke Laurentian and were a group distinct from the later historical five and Six Nations of the Iroquois Haudenosaunee.
In the early 1930s, he was in a left-wing pacifist group called the Manchester Peace Council, for which he frequently spoke in public.
Members of a guerrilla gardening group spoke about reclaiming unused land for growing vegetables, how this helps the local community and how it can be a driver for change.
Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who spoke what is now called the Old Norse language belonging to the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages, especially Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish and Danish in their earlier forms.
Jonny Greenwood spoke of his intrigue of utilizing old and new music technology, and the band also sought to combine electronic manipulations with jam sessions in the studio, stating their model was the German group Can.
There was not a unified Tupi identity despite the fact that they were a single ethnic group that spoke a common language.

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