Irritating to Hastings is the fact that Poirot will sometimes conceal from him important details of his plans, as in The Big Four where Hastings is kept in the dark throughout the climax.

Four client-republics were set up, which were in fact ruled by Rome.

Four years later, US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara admitted to Congress that the US ships had in fact been cooperating in the South Vietnamese attacks against North Vietnam.

* The fact that love is a word with four letters has been used in several popular songs, including " Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word " written by Bob Dylan and performed by Joan Baez, " Four Letter Word " written by Ricki and Marty Wilde and performed by Kim Wilde, " 4 Letter Word " written by Claude Kelly and Matt Squire and performed by David Cook.

Four episodes later Buffy discovers Dawn is in fact a mystical object known as The Key ; a group of monks transformed The Key into human form and sent it to the Slayer for protection from the villainous Glory ( Clare Kramer ).

Being suspicious of the fact that the Russians in Vienna were the first to accept Renner's Cabinet, the Western Allies hesitated half a year with their recognition, but his Provisional Government was in the end recognised by all Four Powers on Oct. 20 and Renner was thus the first post-war Chancellor.

Valli had his first truly solo hit in the summer of 1975 ( all of his prior " solo " hits were in fact Four Seasons productions ) when the Bob Crewe-produced " Swearin ' to God " followed " My Eyes Adored You " into the upper reaches of the Hot 100, peaking at the # 6 position and capitalizing on the growing disco craze.

This was in fact the address of a bar, Tonneau d ' Or, and indeed most of their time was spent either drinking in a number of bars in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, principally at Chez Moineau on the Rue du Four, or else simply walking the streets.

He was accused of being anti-British by British tabloids for his portrayal of the British Army and the Empire in the 2002 movie The Four Feathers ; this perception was strengthened by the fact that during an interview for the DVD release of The Four Feathers, he spoke favourably of the Mahdi, a fanatical religious leader depicted in the film.

In the case of Sony BMG, there existed a " Big Five " ( now " Big Four ") of major record companies, while The CW's creation was an attempt to consolidate ratings and stand up to the " Big Four " of American network ( terrestrial ) television ( this despite the fact that the CW was, in fact, partially owned by one of the Big Four in CBS ).

" This bonus disc is known as Side Four ; the disc's title reflects the fact that the bonus material makes up the fourth side of the double LP edition of the album.

They suspected Anti-Treaty forces ( who had recently seized the Four Courts in Dublin ) might be responsible-this was in fact not the case-and thought the Irish Provisional Government “ should be pressed to deal with the matter ”.

The fact that she is Welsh is stated by the piece of a witch's broom in " The Four Tasks of Danger Mouse ".

This is due to the fact that on the Freeview digital terrestrial platform, BBC Four is broadcast in a statistically multiplexed stream in Multiplex B that timeshares with the CBeebies channel.

However, Black Swan revealed he had in fact killed the Four Winds, including Nijo's brother, and stabbed him out of boredom with his ranting and disobedience.

Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are captured when the cows turn into three members of the Fantastic Four, and then reveal they are in fact Skrulls, the ancient enemies of the Kree.

The four Avengers find and capture the Skrulls for interrogation, and determine that the aliens are in fact three of the four members of the original exploration team that once visited Earth and battled the Fantastic Four.

Four years after joining, in 1771, he assumed by leave of the Duke of Bouillon the surname of La Tour d ' Auvergne, being in fact descended from an illegitimate half-brother of the great Turenne.

It was originally started as an nWo PPV, but did not generate the revenue that WCW had hoped it would due in part to the fact that the event suffered from a low buy rate and a lack of revenue from such a small facility ( the first Souled Out was held at the Five Seasons Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and although it sold out the arena only seated barely more than 5, 000 people ).

The classic of descriptive poetry, in fact, the specimen that the literature of the world presents that must be considered as the most important and the most successful, is The Seasons ( 1726 – 1730 ) of James Thomson.

Coleridge, somewhat severely, described The Seasons as the work of a good rather than of a great poet and it is an indisputable fact that, at its very best, descriptive poetry fails to awaken the highest powers of the imagination.

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

In fact, although we have dispelled the fear, we have not necessarily assured ourselves that there are no dangers.

In fact, insofar as science generates any fear, it stems not so much from scientific prowess and gadgets but from the fact that new unanswered questions arise, which, until they are understood, create uncertainty.

We are also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.

we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

Some of us might be inclined to argue, in fact, that an independence of mind and action and an intolerance of regimentation, either mental or physical, are particularly Southern traits.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

This finding is consistent also with the fact that student leaders are more likely to be supporters of the values implicit in civil liberties than the other students.

In fact, if judgments are to be rendered upon the soundness of his historicism, they must be based on scanty evidence.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

It is a fact of life that magazines are edited by groups: they have to be or they wouldn't be published at all.

But if anything can bring home to Mr. Khrushchev the idea that he will not really get much enjoyment from watching this Braddock-against-the-Indians contest, it will probably be the fact that SEATO forces are ready to attempt it -- plus the fact that Moscow has something to lose from closing off disarmament and other bigger negotiations with Washington.

There is a trend today to bemoan the fact that Americans are too `` soft ''.

the rub arises from the fact that teachers are usually paid on the basis of time served rather than quality.

This caution has been particularly noticeable in a tendency of retailers and distributors to shift the inventory burden back on the supplier, and the fact stocks at retail are low in many lines has escaped attention because of the presence of higher stocks at the manufacturing level.

But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to are by Schnabel pupils ( Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, and Victor Babin ) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical skills.

Some of them are obvious, such as the fact that we associate recorded and live music with our responses and behavior in different types of environments and social settings.

Due to the fact that building codes and regulations vary so much throughout the country, the first thing to do is to find out what, if any, they are.

Some distribution costs are kept up by competitive pressure, some by the fact that the customers have come to expect certain niceties and flourishes.

Fundamental to the difficulty of creating the desired prestige is the fact that, in the business community, prestige and status are conferred in proportion to the authority that one man has over others and the extent of which he participates in the management functions ''.

Important as these differences are, they should not obscure the basic fact that by shifting the hypothalamic balance sufficiently to the parasympathetic side, we produce depressions, whereas a shift in the opposite direction causes excitatory effects and, eventually, maniclike changes.

Perhaps a clue to these and related problems lies in the fact that changes in the intensity of hypothalamic discharges which are associated with changes in its balance lead also to qualitative alterations in reactivity.