He was at the centre of a brilliant literary and intellectual circle including Michael Ayrton, Sacheverell Sitwell and Anthony Powell, and despite Powell's denial, he is often said to be the prototype of the character Hugh Moreland in Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time.

Powell's progressive exploration, on nightclub bandstands, of the harmonic series often produced brilliant, thrillingly unexpected solos.

He often donned a red calico hunting shirt, which his men called his " battle shirt ," when a battle was about to commence, and the men under his command would pass the word, " Little Powell's got on his battle shirt!

Martin Powell's violin playing had become fully integrated into the band's sound, whilst vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe mixed death metal growls and grunts with the spoken word and an often plaintive singing voice.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

The first came in an accusation by former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, who claimed that the Bush administration's foreign policy was run by a " Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal " implying a sinister intent ;

Technically the grant was to Powell's father ( a British subject ) to be passed on by descent.

This claim was repeated several times in the run-up to the war, including in then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the U. N Security Council on February 5, 2003, which concluded with a long recitation of the information provided by al-Libi.

Powell's speech came less than a month after a then-classified CIA report concluding that the information provided by al-Libi was unreliable and about a year after a Defense Intelligence Agency report concluded the same thing.

By Powell's own account, Ingram was a major influence on him.

It was in Algiers that the beginning of Powell's dislike of the United States was planted.

On one occasion, Powell's yellow skin ( he was recovering from jaundice ), overly formal dress and strange manner caused him to be mistaken for a Japanese spy.

Powell's ambition to be Viceroy of India crumbled in February 1947, when Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced that Indian independence was imminent.

In Powell's view this was " one of the most horrible things that I remember in politics ... seeing the way in which Harold Macmillan, with all the skill of the old actor-manager, succeeded in false-footing Rab.

The New York Times said Powell's speech was " a potential declaration of independence from American policy ".

Lyndon B. Johnson had indeed asked Wilson for some British forces for Vietnam, and when it was later suggested to Powell that Washington understood that the public reaction to Powell's allegations had made Wilson realise he would not have favourable public opinion and so could not go through with it, Powell responded: " The greatest service I have performed for my country, if that is so ".

The biggest argument Powell and Heath had during Powell's time in the Shadow Cabinet was over a dispute over the role of Black Rod, who would go to the Commons to summon them to the Lords to hear the Royal Assent of Bills.

Three days after the speech, on 23 April, as the Race Relations Bill was being debated in the House of Commons, 1, 000 dockers marched on Westminster protesting against Powell's " victimisation ", and the next day 400 meat porters from Smithfield market handed in a 92-page petition in support of Powell, amidst other mass demonstrations of working class support, much of it from trade unionists, in London and Wolverhampton.

The national swing to Labour was 1 %; 4 % in Powell's heartland, the West Midlands conurbation ; and 16 % in his old constituency ( although Budgen won the seat ).

In Powell's later career as an Ulster Unionist MP he continued to criticise the United States and claimed that the Americans were trying to persuade the British to surrender Northern Ireland into an all-Irish state because the condition for Irish membership of NATO, Powell claimed, was Northern Ireland.

" Grim " was Powell's response when he was asked what he thought of Thatcher's victory, because he believed she would renege like Heath did in 1972.

Then on 11 April, was a riot in Brixton and when on 13 April Thatcher was quoted Powell's remark that " We have seen nothing yet " by an interviewer she replied: " I heard him say that and I thought it was a very very alarming remark.

In early September 1989, a collection of Powell's speeches on Europe was published titled Enoch Powell on 1992 ( 1992 being the year set for the creation of the Single Market by the Single European Act of 1986 ).

When Thatcher was challenged by Michael Heseltine for the leadership of the Conservative Party during November 1990, Powell said he would rejoin the party, which he had left in February 1974 over the issue of Europe, if Thatcher won, and would urge the public to support both her and, in Powell's view, national independence.

Powell's final words were a few hours after being admitted to hospital, he asked where his lunch was.

It is worth noting that the majority of Powell's Old Right and far-right supporters strongly reject his social views, whilst neophytes tend not to be as oppositional.

* Fiona Barton, ' Widow in Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech really did exist ', The Daily Mail, 2 February 2007

( See Times letter from Canon Eric James, ' Hidden nature of Powell's first love ', 10 February 1998.

Upon Powell's death, Wilfred Wood, then Bishop of Croydon, stated, " Enoch Powell gave a certificate of respectability to white racist views which otherwise decent people were ashamed to acknowledge ".

Shortly after the Powell's death, the remaining children of his third marriage became ' Baden-Powell '.

The director's cut is often considered a mixed bag, with an equal share of supporters and detractors.

Since its origins in the 19th century, Mormonism has been compared to Islam, often by detractors of one religion or the other.

Full preterism is often referred to as hyper-preterism by its detractors.

The speeches of politicians are often widely analyzed by both their supporters and detractors.

His works, the symphonies in particular, had detractors, most notably the influential Austrian critic Eduard Hanslick, and other supporters of Johannes Brahms ( and detractors of Wagner ), who pointed to their large size, use of repetition, and Bruckner's propensity to revise many of his works, often with the assistance of colleagues, and his apparent indecision about which versions he preferred.

Because of his homely ways and strong Norfolk roots, he was often known to both friends and detractors as the " fat old Squire of Norfolk.

" At the same time, he often acted independently, disobeying orders from Confederate command, and among his detractors ( who included the French general Charles François Dumouriez ) had a reputation of a " loose cannon ".

The term Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was often used interchangeably with and as a synonym for Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle by detractors ( such as Einstein and the physicist Alfred Landé ) who believed in determinism and saw the common features of the Bohr-Heisenberg theories as a threat.

MacDiarmid's detractors often referred to it as plastic Scots — a word play on synthetic as in synthetic plastics — to emphasize its artificiality.

Though Ofili's detractors often state that he " splatters " elephant dung on his pictures, this is inaccurate: he sometimes applies it directly to the canvas in the form of dried spherical lumps, and sometimes, in the same form, uses it as varnished foot-like supports on which the paintings stand.

This cultural environment has often been suggested to have informed his sense of national identity ; later in his life, when political detractors suggested that he was of Kurdish extraction, Gökalp responded that while he was certain of patrilineal Turkish racial heritage, this was insignificant: " I learned through my sociological studies that nationality is based solely on upbringing.

State socialism is often referred to by detractors simply as " socialism ".

Apart from Justified Sinner, which even his detractors acknowledged as unusually powerful ( and often attributed to someone else, usually Lockhart ), his novels were regarded as turgid, his verse as light, his short tales and articles as ephemera.

The Red Army's defeat was so great and unexpected that, at the instigation of Piłsudski's detractors, the Battle of Warsaw is often referred to in Poland as the " Miracle at the Vistula ".

* Auckland is alleged to be full of cars and especially SUVs ( often referred to by detractors as ' Remuera Tractors ', with Remuera being the stereotypical ' rich people's suburb '), and its drivers preferring them to other types of transportation, but Aucklanders use them less than the rural population.

By the end of the 1980s, rigsar was no longer so popular, its detractors citing repetitive, simple tunes that were often copied directly from foreign music.

Cutler was a noted eccentric, dressing in a distinctive style including plus-fours and hats adorned with many badges, travelling mainly by bicycle and often communicating by means of sticky labels printed with " Cutlerisms ", one of which, " never knowingly understood " came to be applied by supporters and detractors alike.

It was often employed by detractors of François Mitterrand.

The styling was definitely controversial, often described as ' vacuum-cleaner ' or ' catfish ' by detractors.

Regarding the theological status of modern day Jewish people, covenant theology is often referred to as " supersessionism ," or " replacement theology " by its detractors, due to the perception that it teaches that God has abandoned the promises made to the Jews and has replaced the Jews with Christians as his chosen people in the earth.

" Wharfe added, however, that: " It does [...] lend credence to the Princess's belief, so often dismissed by her detractors, that the Establishment was out to destroy her.

Also, in the political pursuit of social justice and intellectual freedom and honesty, the neo-orthodox, unlike the conservatives they were accused by detractors of resembling, often made practical alliances with liberals, as both groups shared a deep hostility to authoritarianism of any kind, in both church and state.

During this decade, the school had a much lower profile in Ann Arbor, and it was often stereotyped as a haven for misfits or drug users, with its detractors affixing unflattering nicknames such as " Commie High " or " Community Get-High School.