First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.

Journalist Andrew Cockburn reported in Britain's The First Post that Ekéus told him how former U. S. President Bill Clinton attempted to prevent Saddam Hussein's Iraq from being certified as free of weapons of mass destruction.

He was so depressed at the tone of class warfare – although Asquith told him that party rancour had been just as bad over the First Home Rule Bill in 1886 – that he introduced the Prince of Wales to War Minister Haldane as " the last King of England ".

For this reason, Humans even in the 24th century view Vulcans in many ways as their best friends — " the good guys ," as told to Zefram Cochrane in ' First Contact ' by the crew of the time travelling USS Enterprise-E.

Llwyd told Manawydan that he was a friend of Gwawl ( from the First Branch ) and had enchanted Dyfed and captured Rhiannon and Pryderi in revenge for the insult done to Gwawl by Pwyll ( Pryderi's father and Rhiannon's first husband ).

George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge wrote a trilogy of novels My First Two Thousand Years, an Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, ( 1928 ), in which Isaac Laquedem is a Roman soldier who, after being told by Jesus that he will " tarry until I return ," goes on to influence many of the great events of history ; he frequently encounters Solome ( described as ' The Wandering Jewess '), and travels with a companion, to whom he has passed on his immortality via a blood transfusion ( another attempt to do this for a woman he loved ended in her death ).

Popper first told police that his attacks was a reaction to the First Intifada, later claiming to have been distraught because his girlfriend had decided to leave him.

Two officers, Captain Silas Soule and Lieutenant Joseph Cramer, commanding companies D and K, respectively, of the First Colorado Cavalry, refused to follow Chivington's order and told their men to hold fire.

For the First Test against New Zealand Snow was told by the chairman of the selectors Alec Bedser that he was dropped so that they could watch Alan Ward in a Test match, but Illingworth rang in the middle of the Essex vs Sussex match to tell Snow straight that he was dropped for disobeying his orders in the Test.

First on 3 March 1917, he told an American journalist, " I cannot deny it.

In 1960, McGraw-Hill published My First Fifty Years in Politics, by Joe Martin as told to Robert J. Donovan, a lively and detailed account of Martin's role in American politics over a half-century.

In 2373, the Defiant is part of a Starfleet task force that tries to stop the Borg in the Battle of Sector 001, as told in Star Trek: First Contact.

NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, " First Person Singular ", which is told entirely from the point-of-view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed.

William Smith said he based his account on what Joseph had told William and the rest of his family the day after the First Vision:

' Den another said, ' First thing my mammy told me was, notin ' so bad as a nigger-driver.

" A tradition told they arrived from Judea after the First Jewish-Roman War ( 66 – 73 AD ) while it is known historically many Sephardi Jews came following the Spanish Reconquista.

But later that year, after he had apparently mishandled an operational assignment, he was moved from operational duties to the archives of the KGB's First Chief Directorate, and told he would never work in the field again.

The first quote of the Book can be found by the end of the 1st century AD in the First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians: the story is briefly told by the fourth Pope, but the narration omits the name of the city of Bethulia and of the king of Nineveh.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, as told in the Silmarillion, the Dagor Aglareb was the third battle of the Wars of Beleriand during the First Age, known as the Glorious Battle.

The story of the club's major involvement in the First World War has been told in a 2005 book entitled They Took The Lead, by Stephen Jenkins ( the deputy chairman of Leyton Orient Supporters ' Club ).

We learn that in order to avoid First Law conflicts, Unit Dee is being lied to and told that the entire terraforming project is really an elaborate simulation and that no actual human beings are involved.

First told in the Rigveda, it has been treated dramatically by Kalidasa in his Vikramorvasiyam.

Haines's life story is told in the 1998 biography Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star by William J. Mann, and his designs are the subject of Peter Schifando and Haines associate Jean H. Mathison's 2005 book Class Act: William Haines Legendary Hollywood Decorator.

Man, we are told, is endowed with reason and is capable of distinguishing good from bad.

The mountain was the setting for a children's story, The Old Man of Lochnagar, told originally by Prince Charles to his younger brothers, Andrew and Edward, and published in 1980 with royalties accruing to The Prince's Trust.

In October 1955 Philby was officially cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, who told the House of Commons, " I have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called ' Third Man ', if indeed there was one.

James Baldwin ’ s collection Going to Meet the Man ( 1965 ) told stories of African-American life.

McGoohan stated in a 1977 interview ( broadcast as part of a Canadian documentary about The Prisoner called The Prisoner Puzzle ) that during the filming of the third season of Danger Man he told Lew Grade, then-chairman of ITC Entertainment, that he wanted to quit working on Danger Man after the filming of the proposed fourth series.

* Hain itself has gone back to a simpler life with high technology only where it is justified, as is told in the first part of " A Man of the People " in Four Ways to Forgiveness.

The Australians understood this twenty years later when Joe Darling, touring England for the first time in 1896, said: " We were all told not to trust the Old Man as he was out to win every time and was a great bluffer ".

A notable example is " The Ruined Man who Became Rich Again through a Dream ", in which a man is told in his dream to leave his native city of Baghdad and travel to Cairo, where he will discover the whereabouts of some hidden treasure.

Although never acknowledged by Matheson, it is worth noting that Mary Shelley published a novel entitled The Last Man that told the story of a future world ravaged by a plague and the last solitary inhabitant.

Maureen lives through, and gives her ( sometimes contradictory ) viewpoints on many events in other Heinlein stories, most notably the 1917 visit from the future by " Ted Bronson " ( in actuality Lazarus Long ), told from Long's point of view in Time Enough for Love, D. D. Harriman's space program from The Man Who Sold the Moon and the rolling roads from The Roads Must Roll.

Examples: William Faulkner in A Rose for Emily ( Faulkner was an avid experimenter in using unusual points of view-see his Spotted Horses, told in third person plural ); Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in Cheaper By the Dozen ; Frederik Pohl in Man Plus ; and more recently, Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides and Joshua Ferris in Then We Came to the End.

* In Bill James's The Lolita Man ( 1986 ), Colin Harpur is told to go home and ' play halma ' with his wife Megan.

At the final presentation for the cultural center, Oscar and Peter receive the commission, but Oscar is simultaneously told that he has won the award for Gay Professional Man of the Year, with Newman deciding that he will reveal his decision after the ceremony.

Palmerston believed that this was incitement to the working class to begin agitating for reform and told Gladstone: " What every Man and Woman too have a Right to, is to be well governed and under just Laws, and they who propose a change ought to shew that the present organization does not accomplish those objects ".

Amid a surge of Yip Man-related film projects in production, Donnie Yen told the Chinese media in March 2010 that after Ip Man 2, he will no longer play the Wing Chun master any more.

Talking of these achievements with typical modesty he told the Evening Standard in December 2007 (' The Man Who Remade the RSC '): " There was a bit of gardening to do, but we are now beginning to show signs of walking the walk.

The opening song of The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, " Science Fiction Double Feature ", begins with the words " Michael Rennie was ill The Day the Earth Stood Still, but he told us where we stand ..." (" and Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear, Claude Rains was The Invisible Man ..." etc.

In " The Dreams in the Witch House " ( 1932 ), the protagonist Walter Gilman dreams that he is told by the witch Keziah Mason that " He must meet the Black Man, and go with them all to the throne of Azathoth at the centre of ultimate Chaos ....

Fred walks away and asks Andy who the Mystery Man is and is told that he is a friend of Dick Laurent, a millionaire.

Entertainers on the Chautauqua circuit such as Charles Ross Taggart, billed as " The Man From Vermont " and " The Old Country Fiddler ", played violin, sang, was a ventriloquist and comedian, and told tall tales about life in rural New England.

A notable example is " The Ruined Man Who Became Rich Again Through a Dream ", in which a man is told in his dream to leave his native city of Baghdad and travel to Cairo, where he will discover the whereabouts of some hidden treasure.

In his " Oration on the Dignity of Man ", he told hostile clerics about the dignity of the liberal arts and about the dignity and the glory of angels.

The Third Man ( 1949 ), told the story of a writer ( Joseph Cotten ) in post-World War II Vienna who found out that his old friend ( Orson Welles ), a black marketeer, was not dead after all.