The Australian centre-left then Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, used the term to criticize the economic policies of the Howard Government, notably in an essay in the November 2006 issue of The Monthly magazine entitled " Howard's Brutopia: The Battle of Ideas in Australian Politics ".

He was also a critic of then Prime Minister John Howard's policies towards Indigenous Australians – most notably Howard's refusal to make an apology to the Stolen Generation.

From that point on, guided by Garnett's literary judgement and Howard's high standards of design and production, it was a major force in British publishing, notably of books by T. E. Lawrence, Arthur Ransome, Peter Fleming, Ernest Hemingway, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern Approaches and the James Bond series by Ian Fleming.

It was subsequently renamed Finance and Administration by John Howard's government in 1997, and as Finance and Deregulation by Kevin Rudd's government in 2007 a renaming which notably gives titular status to deregulation.

The character is one of Howard's most memorable villains and has been used by other authors, notably L. Sprague de Camp.

Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, Kull the Conqueror, and Solomon Kane also have real life existences in the Marvel Universe.

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.

Howard Jones is the eldest of four boys ( Howard's brothers, Roy, Martin, and Paul, were all musicians in their own right and had their own band, called Red Beat, in the late 70s and early 80s ).

Also for Marvel, Brunner adapted Robert E. Howard's sword-and-sorcery pulp fiction hero Conan the Barbarian in the 42-page story " The Scarlet Citadel ", and drew many covers for the similar series Red Sonja and Savage Sword of Conan.

The film, one of the very few 1960s epics made in black and white, features a large ensemble cast including actors such as Kenneth More, Richard Todd ( who took part in the actual invasion ; his battalion reinforced John Howard's Pegasus Force ), Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Red Buttons, Leo Genn, Peter Lawford, Gert Fröbe, John Wayne, Irina Demick, Bourvil, Curd Jürgens, Robert Wagner, Paul Anka and Arletty.

The idea that would become " Red Nails " continued to germinate in Howard's mind, and later that year he began the actual writing of the tale.

( It is known from Robert E. Howard's writings that the Cimmerians were based on the Celts, a barbarian tribal group of early Europe.

Howard's original system established three general cloud categories based on physical appearance and process of formation: cirriform ( mainly detached and wispy ), cumuliform or convective ( mostly detached and heaped, rolled, or rippled ), and non-convective stratiform ( mainly continuous layers in sheets ).

Ronald Howard's book explores in great detail written German orders to the Ju 88 Staffel based in France, assigned to intercept the aircraft, as well as communiqués on the British side that verify intelligence reports of the time indicating a deliberate attack on Howard.

He appears to be based on the Marvel Comics villain of the same name, although a Three Stooges reference suggests he may also have been inspired by Shemp Howard's character named Hammerhead in The Invisible Woman.

* The CBBC show Little Howard's Big Question is based in Purley, with Big Howard, Little Howard and MOTHER.

Composer James Newton Howard's main theme is based on the music from The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell.

At one point in the novel Howard's promiscuity gets him into trouble when he is told that he might be sacked for " gross moral turpitude " ( which he defines to a female student of his as " raping large numbers of nuns "), but he shrugs off this accusation as being based on " a very vague concept, especially these days ".

Early residential precincts were based on Ebenezer Howard's Garden City philosophy, using relatively tried and tested principles of town planning and architecture which is reflected in their housing styles and layouts.

Marcia Howard's " Sorry ", was written for Australia's ' stolen generation ' of indigenous people and based upon Margaret Tuckers ' story of a Cummeragunja woman taken from her family as a young girl.

Offutt also wrote two series of books based on characters by Robert E. Howard, one on Howard's best known character, Conan, and one on a lesser known character, Cormac mac Art.

Brown based the game and its characters on the Conan the Barbarian series, having read all of Robert E Howard's stories of the eponymous warrior.

Howard's book is a true crime novel based on trial transcripts, interviews with those involved, and other sources.

In 1962, Howard's experiences on D-Day were re-enacted by actor Richard Todd — who had himself participated in D-Day, serving in the 7th Parachute Battalion, sent to reinforce Howard's coup-de-main party — in the film The Longest Day, which was largely based on Ryan's book, although it was a dramatised account.

The concept was adopted again in England after World War II, when the New Towns Act caused the development of many new communities based on Howard's egalitarian ideas.

Dynamite Entertainment announced that Djimon Hounsou signed to co-produce and star as Thulsa Doom in a film version based on the comic books, rather than Robert E. Howard's original incarnation, although the film has not been made yet.

Boone as seen from Howard's Knob Boone took its name from the famous pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, who on several occasions camped at a site generally agreed to be within the present city limits.

The first book, Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One ( 1932 – 1933 ) ( 2003 ; published in the US as The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian ) includes Howard's notes on his fictional setting, as well as letters and poems concerning the genesis of his ideas.

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.

Downer said that he intended to elaborate further on Australian Prime Minister John Howard's promise of a seven-year extension of the SPARTECA – TCF scheme, which assists Fiji's textile, clothing, and footwear industry.

He opposed Howard's policy on asylum-seekers, campaigned in support of an Australian Republic and attacked what he perceived as a lack of integrity in Australian politics, together with former Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam, finding much common ground with his predecessor.

During Howard's prime ministership, Keating made occasional speeches strongly criticising his successor's social policies, and defending his own policies, such as those on East Timor.

Staubach then led his team 80 yards in 5 plays on the ensuing drive, scoring on a 34-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Percy Howard and cutting their deficit to 21 – 17 ( Howard's touchdown reception was the only catch of his NFL career ).

Furthermore, White sacked Bledsoe on back-to-back plays on the Patriots first drive after Howard's game-clinching touchdown return.

( For Kenneth Williams )" appeared on Howard's 2007 album Barefoot with Angels.

He has written books on subsequent Prime Ministers, Bob Hawke ( The Hawke Ascendency, 1984 ), Paul Keating ( The End of Certainty, 1992 ) and John Howard ( Howard's Decade, 2006 ).

Early on, Gull's friend James Hinton discusses his son Howard's theory of the " fourth dimension ", which proposes that time is a spatial dimension.

He was also known for his sword and sorcery, a fantasy genre he was instrumental in reviving through his editorial work on and continuation of Robert E. Howard's " Conan " cycle.

About fifteen years later, Emilien Renou, director of the Parc Saint-Maur and Montsouris observatories, began work on an elaboration of Howard's classifications that would lead to the introduction of altocumulus ( physically more closely related to stratocumulus than to cumulus ) and altostratus during the 1870s.

Tapiola was built on the principles of Ebenezar Howard's garden city.

Their first son, George Howard, was born on November 21, 1789 in Jennings House during Howard's term as Governor.

Dobbs is often used as a foil for Howard's philosophical comments on the value of gold and one's responsibilities to one's companions.

Two books focusing on the final flight, Flight 777 ( Ian Colvin, 1957 ), and In Search of My Father: A Portrait of Leslie Howard ( Ronald Howard, 1984 ), concluded that the Germans shot down Howard's DC-3 for the specific purpose of killing him.

While ostensibly on " entertainer goodwill " tours at the behest of the British Council, Howard's intelligence-gathering activities had attracted German interest.

Former CIA agent Joseph B. Smith recalled that, in 1957, he was briefed by the National Security Agency on the need for secrecy and that Leslie Howard's death had been brought up.