Barnett, who came into office with no previous experience in public administration, has surrounded himself with confusion which not only keeps his foes guessing but his friends as well.

Was B'dikkat a crazy slave to his own duty or was he a man who had hopes of going back to his own planet some day, surrounded by a family of little cow-people resembling himself??

Less than a month later, on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military deposed Allende, who shot himself in the head to avoid capture as the Presidential Palace was surrounded and bombed.

The board complained that Pfeiffer was too removed from management and the troops, as he surrounded himself with a " clique " of Chief Financial Officer Earl Mason, Senior Vice-President John Rose, and Human Resources Chief Hans Gutsch.

Joe Martin, the Republican Speaker from 1947 – 1949 and again from 1953 – 1955, wrote that Eisenhower " never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill.

Zog surrounded himself with guards and rarely appeared in public.

Instead, he surrounded himself with men and women of extraordinary talent, whom he selected not on the basis of aristocratic origin, but on the basis of merit.

His mother had a guitar, which he then took to school, even though he could not play, and was himself surrounded by girls: " In those days just having a guitar was enough ... that was it ".

Antony, left as sole Consul, surrounded himself with a bodyguard of Caesar's veterans and forced the senate to transfer to him the province of Cisalpine Gaul, which was then administered by Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, one of the conspirators.

Imagining himself surrounded by a vast conspiracy, he ordered thousands of executions in the military.

During his reign, Philip surrounded himself with the best civil lawyers and decidedly expelled the clergy from all participation in the administration of the law.

Though he was blind and compelled to keep to his bed, from which he gave audiences and transacted affairs of state, he surrounded himself with capable officials, many of them his Corsini relatives, but he did little for his family except to purchase and enlarge the palace built in Trastevere for the Riarii, and now known as the Palazzo Corsini ( the seat of the Regia Accademia dei Lincei ).

Accounts note that Richard fought bravely and ably during this manoeuvre, unhorsing Sir John Cheney, a well-known jousting champion, killing Henry's standard bearer Sir William Brandon and coming within a sword's length of Henry himself before being finally surrounded by Sir William Stanley's men and killed.

This attitude of Hitler's was further shown at the very end of the war, when he refused to station himself in the OKW bunker in Berlin, claiming that he did not ' trust the strength of army concrete ', however the true reason was probably that he feared another generals ' plot and so chose to stay in his own headquarters, surrounded by an apparently more loyal SS retinue.

Robert and Ranulf's cavalry encircled Stephen's centre, and the king found himself surrounded by the enemy army.

He paid more attention to Hanover and surrounded himself with Germans, making him an unpopular king, However he did build up the army and created a more stable political system in Britain and helped bring peace to northern Europe.

In reviewing the voluminous literature on the subject, the student of civil disobedience rapidly finds himself surrounded by a maze of semantical problems and grammatical niceties.

Maximilian was a keen supporter of the arts and sciences, and he surrounded himself with scholars such as Joachim Vadian and Andreas Stoberl ( Stiborius ), promoting them to important court posts.

I don't think he's surrounded himself with the people he could have surrounded himself with.

The French right wing, commanded by MacMahon and accompanied by Napoleon III himself, attempted to relieve Bazaine but was itself surrounded and trapped by the Germans in the disastrous Battle of Sedan on August 31.

The campaign was a disaster, and whilst Edward escaped, Gaveston found himself stranded at Scarborough Castle, where his baronial enemies first surrounded and captured him.

A career soldier with little knowledge of statecraft, Justin wisely surrounded himself with trusted advisors.

Fosdick had found the installations surrounded by a battery of saloons and houses of prostitution, with filles de joie from all over the country flocking to San Antonio, Laredo, and El Paso to `` woman the cribs ''.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

They all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.

The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.

Large piles of building were erected, with strong outside walls, capable of resisting the assaults of an enemy, within which all the necessary edifices were ranged round one or more open courts, usually surrounded with cloisters.

Of the shorter poems, besides the greeting to Pippin on his return from the campaign against the Avars ( 796 ), an epistle to David ( Charlemagne ) incidentally reveals a delightful picture of the poet living with his children in a house surrounded by pleasant gardens near the emperor's palace.

Julia Mamaea was a woman of many virtues, and she surrounded the young emperor with wise counsellors, under the administration of the jurist and praetorian praefect Ulpian.

Alfred's burhs ( later termed boroughs ) consisted mainly of massive earthen walls surrounded by wide ditches, probably reinforced with wooden revetments and palisades.

Peter was openly in love with Inês, recognized all the children she bore, and, worst of all, favoured the Castilians that surrounded her.

On returning, Fleming noticed that one culture was contaminated with a fungus, and that the colonies of staphylococci that had immediately surrounded it had been destroyed, whereas other colonies farther away were normal.

Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1922, and grew up surrounded by physicists such as Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg, who were working with his father at the Institute for Theoretical Physics ( now the Niels Bohr Institute ) at the University of Copenhagen.

Aeacus was also believed by the Aeginetans to have surrounded their island with high cliffs to protect it against pirates.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

It has been shown, that teeth contain fibres with surrounded by magnetite and some of them also with sodium or magnesium.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with its highest point being above sea level.

Within 4 – 5 days the inflammation and the concomitant dead brain tissue are surrounded with a capsule, which gives the lesion the famous ring-enhancing lesion appearance on CT examination with contrast ( since intravenously applied contrast material can not pass through the capsule, it is collected around the lesion and looks as a ring surrounding the relatively dark lesion ).

Pompey was camped in a strong position just south of Dyrrhachium with the sea to his back and surrounded by hills, making a direct assault impossible.

The adult breast contains 14 – 18 irregular lactiferous lobes that converge to the nipple, to ducts 2. 0 – 4. 5 mm in diameter ; the milk ducts ( lactiferous ducts ) are immediately surrounded with dense connective tissue that functions as a support framework.

Terrain is mostly a low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs.

It is surrounded by mostly low mountains such as the Sudetes with its part Krkonoše, containing the highest point in the country, the Sněžka at.

South Korea is mostly surrounded by water and has of coast line along three seas.

The valley is surrounded by mountains, while its surface is mostly flat and devoid of plants, and of which a high percentage of the sun's heat is able to reach the ground, absorbed by soil and rock.

The present-day Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area includes the Hyder area as an exclave, and Annette Island, which is mostly surrounded by territory of Ketchikan Gateway Borough.

The vegetation found in the area is mostly spinifex and mulga with creeklines being surrounded by eucalypts.

It is an unincorporated area mostly surrounded by the city of Corona.

The valley is surrounded by the Santa Rosa Hills and San Jacinto Mountains, and is mostly dry land, except for Diamond Valley Lake to the south of Hemet.

It is mostly level but is surrounded by forested hills and high mountains in the north.

It is mostly flat land surrounded by a ring levee to protect it from flooding from the Atchafalaya River.

* The city of Caro, which is also the county seat of Tuscola County, is to the south, mostly surrounded by Indianfields Township, although the city has also incorporated some land from southern Almer Charter Township.

Hamtramck is mostly surrounded by Detroit except a small common border with the city of Highland Park, which is in turn surrounded by Detroit.

It is part of a geographical salient that is mostly surrounded by New Jersey.

* Hellertown ( mostly surrounded by Lower Saucon )

It was surrounded by hills, and beyond there was mostly desert.

Woolsthorpe Manor remains on the edge of the village and is mostly surrounded by fields.

The world of Earthsea is one of sea and islands: a vast archipelago of hundreds of islands surrounded by mostly uncharted ocean.

The main island of Fedje is surrounded by about 125 smaller islands and rocks mostly north of the main island, and the name Fedje applies both to the main island, and to all the islands and rocks as a whole.

A modern stadium ( plural stadiums / stadia ) is a place or venue for ( mostly ) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.

Jena was still by far and large an almost medieval town surrounded by a mostly agricultural society.

Originally, this area was a forest outside of Tenochtitlan / Mexico City considered sacred in pre-Hispanic times, but today it is entirely within the city ( mostly in the borough of Miguel Hidalgo ), surrounded by some of its primary business and commercial districts.

The municipality is mostly made up of mountainous terrain, but the city sits in a small valley surrounded by hills.

On the days that it is open, the large building, which mostly houses traditional butcher shops, is surrounded by stalls which crowd the nearby streets.