But the 10 directors I assisted had an armoury of tricks, techniques, and etiquette, that meant they knew how to disguise the most brutal note.
Dr Eric Karran, director of Research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "Giving people with dementia an accurate diagnosis is not always easy, and so building up our armoury of diagnostic techniques is vital.
And these are not the only such plans: 23 new incinerators, from Jersey to Perthshire, are on the drawing board (18 others are already operating), and campaign groups are fighting to stop them.Burning rubbish has been part of Britain's armoury of waste-disposal techniques for years: about a tenth of the country's rubbish goes up in smoke.
Tactics include surveillance, deception, aggression, and as in any conflict, arms races, where each side improves its armoury or techniques to counter those of the other.
There are loads of tools and techniques that form the armoury of fundraisers, some of which will work better than others.
Here, we discuss the application of some of the better known and emerging methods in this category to argue that with the increasing availability of observations from coastal monitoring programmes and the development of more sophisticated statistical analysis techniques data-driven models provide a valuable addition to the armoury of methods available for mesoscale prediction.
Some of the new armoury of weapons will work quickly.
Unfortunately, Christensen's armoury of facial expressions is modestly stocked.
Elizabeth II touring the reconstructed armoury of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia, 2007.
