For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

It has been suggested that they would likely have advanced to the Fall Classic had it not been for a minor wrist injury that sidelined Powell for two weeks in late August.

Following the election of George W. Bush in 2000, observers expected him to avoid any changes to DADT, since his nominee for Secretary of State Colin Powell had participated in its creation.

In 1995, while the world awaited the campaign decision announcement by Colin Powell, Kemp had positive thoughts on the prospect of such a campaign.

His father Ernest Cromwell Peake was a medical missionary doctor with the London Missionary Society of the Congregationalist tradition and his mother, Amanda Elizabeth Powell, had come to China as a missionary assistant.

In June 2003, U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was able to certify that Serbia and Montenegro relationship with the Republika Srpska was consistent with the Dayton Accords, had released all political prisoners, and was cooperating with ICTY.

Powell asked him to translate the Zulu anthem his men had been singing.

Powell had particularly drawn the Chaplain's attention to lines in his First Poems ( published 1937 ).

By the time Powell had left King Edward's School in 1930, he had confirmed his instinctive belief that the Armistice was merely temporary and that Britain would be at war with Germany again.

At the outbreak of war, Powell immediately returned to Britain, but not before buying a Russian dictionary, since he thought " Russia would hold the key to our survival and victory, as it had in 1812 and 1916 ".

Powell and his team began work at 0400 each day to digest radio intercepts and other intelligence data ( such as estimating how many tanks Rommel currently had and what his likely plans were ) ready to present to the Chiefs of Staff at 0900.

Orde Wingate, also involved in planning that operation, had taken such a dislike to Powell that he asked a colleague to restrain him if he was tempted to " beat his brains in ".

Powell had continued to learn Urdu, consistent with his ambition of becoming Viceroy of India, and when Mountbatten transferred his staff to Kandy, Ceylon, Powell chose to remain in Delhi.

Powell said that the unity of the realm had evolved over centuries and included the British Empire: " It was a unit because it had one Sovereign.

Powell claimed that the answer was that because the British Nationality Act 1948 had removed allegiance to the crown as the basis of citizenship and replaced that with nine separate citizenships combined together by statute.

However, after the troops had left in 1954 and the Egyptians nationalised the Canal in 1956, Powell opposed the British attempts to retake the Canal in the Suez Crisis because he thought the British no longer had the resources to be a world power.

After Macmillan's death in 1986 Powell said " Macmillan was a Whig, not a Tory ... he had no use for the Conservative loyalties and affections ; they interfered too much with the Whig's true vocation of detecting trends in events and riding them skilfully so as to preserve the privileges, property and interests of his class ".

Powell noted that some MPs had described the eleven as " sub-human ", but Powell responded by saying: " In general, I would say that it is a fearful doctrine, which must recoil upon the heads of those who pronounce it, to stand in judgement on a fellow human being and to say, ' Because he was such-and-such, therefore the consequences which would otherwise flow from his death shall not flow '.

" Powell also refused to launch a public inquiry, resisted calls to issue a warning against any left-over thalidomide pills that might remain in people's medicine cabinets ( as US President John F. Kennedy had done ), and said " I hope you're not going to sue the Government .... No one can sue the Government.

His successors had not, Powell claimed, provided the money for local authorities to spend on mental health care and therefore institutional care had been neglected whilst at the same time there was not any investment in community care.

Like Tony Benn ( a personal friend despite political differences, whose peerage Powell helped to renounce so that Benn remain in the Commons ), he was seen by supporters as putting conscience and duty to his constituents before loyalty to his party or the sake of his career.

Uriah Heep's schemes and behaviour are more likely based on Thomas Powell, employee of a friend of Dickens, Thomas Chapman.

When Jean shows up unannounced, Terry sees the opportunity to save her friend from the philandering Powell.

In August 1951, New York City police searched a parked car occupied by Monk and friend Bud Powell.

Of the musical themes suggested as the Enigma, one of the most frequently proposed is the Scottish song " Auld Lang Syne ", which has been favoured by Elgar's friend Richard Powell ( husband of Dorabella ), the musicologist Roger Fiske, and the writer Eric Sams.

The sessions by Powell, like those his close friend Monk recorded for the label, are commonly ranked among his best.

Lois Pennycandy was only seen in the earlier episodes ) and Lisa's on-again, off-again friend Janey Powell.

Baxter was a close friend of William Powell with whom he starred in three films and was at Powell's side when Jean Harlow died in 1937.

Powell then agreed to a request from his old friend and golf partner, comedian Jasper Carrott, taking the part of an incompetent detective in a succession of sketches that formed part of Carrott's television series.

Ambrose Powell, an Indian fighter, explorer, sheriff, legislator, and close friend of President James Madison.

Long-time friend V. S. Naipaul cast similar doubts regarding the work, if not the Powell oeuvre.

Earlier in the week, Powell said to his friend Clement Jones, who was a journalist at the Wolverhampton Express & Star, " I'm going to make a speech at the weekend and it's going to go up ' fizz ' like a rocket ; but whereas all rockets fall to the earth, this one is going to stay up.

Despite combing the electoral register and other sources, the editor of the Wolverhampton newspaper the Express & Star, Clem Jones ( a close friend of Powell who broke off relations with him over the controversy ), and his journalists failed to identify the woman.

" During her third film, Holiday in Mexico, Powell met her future friend, Roddy McDowall.

In 1989, White was appointed executive assistant to the then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell, where he was described in The Washington Post by a mutual friend as Powell's " alter ego " in " a job that requires tremendous political sophistication.

Based in part on his experiences as a corporate lawyer and as a representative for the tobacco industry with the Virginia legislature, he wrote the Powell Memorandum to a friend at the US Chamber of Commerce.

Duncan ’ s military advisor was a young colonel named Colin Powell, who considered Duncan a mentor and good friend.

Powell then became Carter's close friend and functionally served as his press secretary.

As Tony and Jack went through the investigation, Jack saw his friend " come back to life ," showing some of his old nobility, courage and resourcefulness as he became increasingly involved in the case by helping Jack rescue Behrooz from Navi Araz, and helped him apprehend Henry Powell before Marwan's sniper killed Powell.

He nearly succeeds in doing so, despite the efforts of Fletcher, Dariat ( who, along with Tolton, his friend, was transported back to the Universe when Quinn summoned the Mélange ) and a returned-from-the-beyond Powell Manani ( the friend of Carter McBride ).

At the same time, the archetypes in the opera are reflected in the personal lives of those involved: Arthur and Maria as the central " ruling " couple, Arthur's best friend Geraint Powell, a Welsh actor-turned-director as Lancelot, Simon Darcourt as the household cleric and writer, and so on.

Later, Powell reveals that he wanted to be just like his friend Nova.