In an introduction to a new edition of Chambers Dictionary in August 2008 Paxman labelled the work of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns as " sentimental doggerel.

These boys acknowledged an introduction to anybody by gently pressing one of his hands in both of theirs, while they gazed, misty-eyed with care, into the eyes of the person they were meeting.

Cocteau acknowledged in the introduction to the script that the play was motivated, in part, by complaints from his actresses that his works were too writer / director-dominated and gave the players little opportunity to show off their full range of talents.

Clarke acknowledged the connection in his introduction to The Complete Venus Equilateral.

He did not introduce the sonnet into France, but he practised it very soon after its introduction and with admirable skill-the famous " Quand vous serez bien vieille " being one of the acknowledged gems of French literature.

acknowledged this with the introduction, " Welcome to Whose Line Is It Anyway, the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter.

He acknowledged the resemblance in his introduction, saying " in the ' Blithedale ' of this volume, many readers will probably suspect a faint and not very faithful shadowing of Brook Farm, in West Roxbury, which ( now a little more than ten years ago ) was occupied and cultivated by a company of socialists.

The One-Dollar Currency Note Ordinance of that year led to the introduction of one-dollar notes by the government and the government acknowledged the Hong Kong dollar as the local monetary unit.

Back in Europe, he campaigned for the introduction of watertight compartments, an idea which he acknowledged he had got from seeing large Chinese vessels in Siberia.

Hiaasen specifically acknowledged his debt in an introduction he wrote for a new edition of The Deep Blue Good-By in 1994, commenting that even though MacDonald was now eight years gone, he believed McGee was still around, probably sipping gin on the deck of the Busted Flush and pondering whatever it was that Florida had become or was becoming.

In the book's introduction, he mused: " Already engaged in other duties, it has been with some effort that I have found time to adjust my own mantle ; and I now willingly retire to more quiet labors, which, if less exciting, are more certain to be acknowledged as useful and received with gratitude ".

JFK " publicly acknowledged in his introduction to the book my extensive role in its composition " ( p. 147 ) Sorensen claimed that in May 1957, Kennedy " unexpectedly and generously offered, and I happily accepted, a sum to be spread over several years, that I regarded as more than fair " for his work on the book.

Sim racing is generally acknowledged to have really taken off in with the introduction of Papyrus Design Group's Indianapolis 500: The Simulation, designed by David Kaemmer and Omar Khudari on 16-bit computer hardware.

" The film marked the introduction of a new genre of film making, a variation of film noir that has been called Mumbai noir, of which he is the acknowledged master.

The style and nature of the stories was inspired by the Jorkens stories of the writer Lord Dunsany, whom Clarke admired and with whom he corresponded, a fact humorously acknowledged by Clarke in his introduction to the first Jorkens omnibus volume.

Graham's complex finder-picking style ( epitomised by his landmark composition " Anji "), his reputed introduction of the " Open D " tuning to British folk guitarists and his groundbreaking incorporations of Arabic and Indian inflections into his playing influenced many of his contemporaries, including Bert Jansch, Jimmy Page, Donovan and Ray Davies, all of whom have acknowledged him as an important influence.

Ayn Rand greatly praised this book ( and Hugo's writing in general ), acknowledged it as a source of inspiration, and even wrote an introduction to one of its English-language editions.

Gaiman acknowledged both men in his introduction to the book.

This is freely acknowledged in the introduction.

The introduction of new guitarist " Jack Hammer " – Simon Jones – made a vast improvement on the guitar attack, as acknowledged by Andy Sneap, in his interview with Renee Ackerman of Rockworldtv at his back stage studios in 2007.

He acknowledged his predecessors in the introduction to the first edition:

The political background to the introduction of the new immigration law being that Germany for the first time ever acknowledged to be an " immigration country.

( paragraph rewrite needed ) Master Spas revolutionised the “ swimspa ” market in the mid noughties with the introduction of units that incorporated a patented propulsion chamber, these units bought the benefits of volume driven counter currents to acrylic swimspas along with stand up and seated hydro therapy and as the Michael Phelps Signature Swimspa range by Master Spas are acknowledged as most advanced luxury swimming machines available in terms of performance and specification, the designer Bob Lauter CEO of Master Spas, has introduced several ground breaking swimspas designs over the last 30 years.

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

There have been two introductions of English to Ireland, a medieval introduction that led to the development of the now-extinct Yola dialect and a modern introduction in which Hibernian English largely replaced Irish as the most widely spoken language during the 19th century, following the Act of Union of 1800.

Pressure to remove the Lords ' veto now came from the Irish MPs, on whom the Liberal government were now dependent for their majority, and who wanted to remove the Lords ' ability to block the introduction of Irish Home Rule.

Irish society had no history of literacy until the introduction of Christianity, yet within a few generations of the arrival of the first missionaries the monastic and clerical class of the isle had become fully integrated with the culture of Latin letters.

Pressure to remove the Lords ’ veto now came from the Irish MPs, who wanted to remove the Lords ' ability to block the introduction of Irish Home Rule.

* Mentioned in the spoken introduction to the Irish folk song ' McAlpine's Fusiliers ' as performed by The Dubliners, Noel Murphy and others.

This case led to the recognition under British law ( and later introduction into Irish law as the " defence of fair and reasonable publication ") of the so-called Reynolds defence of qualified privilege for publishers against whom libel actions regarding defamatory comments made in media publications are being taken.

He chaired the Radio Éireann Authority ( now the RTÉ Authority ) between 1960 and 1964, overseeing the introduction of State television to Ireland and establishing the Irish State broadcaster as an independent semi-state body.

During the Irish War of Independence, but prior to the introduction of martial law in December 1920, Curzon suggested the “ Indian ” solution of blockading villages and imposing collective fines for attacks on the police and army.

This demand led to the eventual introduction of four Home Rule Bills, of which two were passed, the Third Home Rule Act won by John Redmond and most notably the Government of Ireland Act 1920 ( which created the home rule parliaments of Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland -- the latter state did not in reality function and was replaced by the Irish Free State ), which was enacted.

He has also designed over 70 Irish postage stamps and the last series of Irish banknotes, " Series C ", before the introduction of the euro.

He would not have been admitted at Cobh, according to Irish government documents, except that he carried a letter of introduction from the Paris embassy.

In the 1970s the Irish government considered three options for the introduction of a second television service: the re-transmission of BBC1 Northern Ireland ; authorization of an independent commercial service ; or charging RTÉ with the establishment of a second national channel.

With a conversion factor of 0. 787564 Irish pounds to the euro, 56 %, by value, of Irish banknotes was withdrawn from circulation within two weeks of the introduction of euro banknotes and coins, and 83. 4 % by the time they ceased to have legal tender status.

In October 1919 Wilson warned Churchill that the planned introduction of Irish Home Rule that autumn would lead to trouble and, given concerns that Robertson lacked the subtlety for the Irish Command which Churchill had offered him, asked him to consult the Prime Minister, perhaps in the knowledge that Lloyd George disliked Robertson.

* H. Richardson: An introduction to Irish high crosses.

Although noting in the introduction to ' The Protestors ' that ' Some recorded herein perhaps did not have " all the truth " — so the writer has been reminded ', Eyre nevertheless claimed that the purpose of the work was to ' tell how a number of little-known individuals, groups and religious communities strove to preserve or revive the original Christianity of apostolic times ', and that ' In faith and outlook they were far closer to the early springing shoots of first century Christianity and the penetrating spiritual challenge of Jesus himself than much that has passed for the religion of the Nazarene in the last nineteen centuries '.

In April 1800, through the introduction of Hungarian writer Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, he was initiated into Freemasonry in the Lodge Pythagoras of the Blazing Star where he was elected minor warden.

Prolific American writer Joyce Carol Oates wrote an introduction for a collection of Lovecraft stories.

The programme prompted activist writer George Monbiot to propose a thorough population study, followed by the introduction of permit-controlled culling.

Breton got to know Martinican writer Aimé Césaire, and later composed the introduction to the 1947 edition of Césaire's Cahier d ' un retour au pays natal.

Written by series writer Drew Goddard, " The Problem with Vampires " establishes his adventures in Prague prior to his introduction Buffy episode " School Hard ".

In parallel with his work as Wilde's literary executor, Ross tried his hand as a writer and art critic and provided an introduction to Wilde's play Salome.

According to food writer Karen Hursh Graber, the initial introduction of rice to Spain from North Africa in the 14th century led to the Spanish introduction of rice to Mexico at the port of Veracruz in the 1520s.

Her last one, A Fool In Her Folly ( 1920 ), was only printed posthumously with an introduction by her long-time friend and fellow writer Marie Belloc Lowndes.

The notion of an internal customer — before the introduction of which external customers were, simply, customers — was popularized by quality management writer Joseph M. Juran, who introduced it in the fourth edition of his Handbook.

The leading Polish writer of the period, Bolesław Prus, hailed Spencer as " the Aristotle of the nineteenth century " and adopted Spencer's metaphor of society-as-organism, giving it a striking poetic presentation in his 1884 micro-story, " Mold of the Earth ", and highlighting the concept in the introduction to his most universal novel, Pharaoh ( 1895 ).

The white page introduction by another fictional writer, Minaka Junkers, an economy assistant professor of the Rhea branch of the Earth Federation Government University, states the book was published in UC0100 to celebrate the Centennial anniversary of the Universal Century.

In the introduction to his Paris Review interview with Green, Terry Southern notes: " An ancient trade compliment, to an author whose technique is highly developed, has been to call him a ' writer's writer '; Henry Green has been referred to as a ' writer's writer's writer.

The novelist Sebastian Faulks, who also wrote an introduction to an edition of these three novels, calls Green " unique ": " No fiction has ever thrilled me as the great moments in Living and Loving ".< David Lodge calls him " an exceptionally gifted and truly original writer ".

In an interview granted in 2002 to the well-known Mexican writer and ( the then ) editor-in-chief of the monthly Letras Libres, Ricardo Cayuela Gally ( b. 1969 ), Kapuściński opined that the war on terror, owing to the asymmetrical character of the combatants engaged in it, could only be wonand indeed easily, within a monththrough a ( re ) introduction of " Stalinism ", a method undesirable for the sole reason that it would leave the world under the permanent " hegemony " of the United States, a circumstance that would spell the end of " the free society ".

Screeno also featured an introduction by the fiction writer and essayist, Cynthia Ozick.

As Sayers explained in the introduction to the book, " Each writer must construct his instalment with a definite solution in view — that is, he must not introduce new complications merely ' to make it more difficult ' ... ach writer was bound to deal faithfully with all the difficulties left for his consideration by his predecessors.

Barnes's reputation as a writer was made when Nightwood was published in England in 1936 in an expensive edition by Faber and Faber, and in America in 1937 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, with an added introduction by T. S. Eliot.

With an introduction by Minnesota writer Patricia Hampl and a foreword by John Hanson.

Jazz writer and historian William Russell has commented that other jazz trumpeters would be better off avoiding the too frequent imitations of Armstrong's introduction on the number ; while the most virtuosic may have the technical ability to duplicate Armstrong's notes, they still suffer in comparison to Armstrong's feeling and originality.