The story is based on first-hand research by Bennett and story consultant Gerry Jackson, both Hackney residents.
My knowledge of the I.S.I.'s role is based on first-hand Pakistani sources, including Baluch leaders.
But in the very first minutes of "Zero Dark Thirty," before its narrative begins to unspool, the audience is told that the story it is about to see is "based on first-hand accounts of actual events".
The year-long study, which was carried out without the co-operation of the Eritrean government, is based on first-hand testimony gathered through 550 confidential interviews with witnesses in third countries and 160 written submissions.
Bigelow maintains that everything in the film is based on first-hand accounts, but the waterboarding scene, which is likely to stir up controversy, appears to have strayed from real life.
From Californian film maker Kathryn Bigelow, the movie is based on first-hand observation by a journalist and screenwriter named Mark Boal who was stationed on an assignment with a special bomb unit.
This is a movie, after all, that opens, as the letter notes, with the real, recorded voices of the victims of 9/11, trapped in the towers, about to die, followed by a note saying that what follows is "based on first-hand accounts of actual events".
Tasting Table's editorial coverage is based on first-hand research from local editors who eat and live in the cities they cover.
"I remember Hadi telling me, 'Mark reminds me more of Bill Gates than anyone I've ever met.'" The comparison was based on first-hand interactions with Gates.
The recommendations are based on first-hand experience acquired at the University of Massachusetts through the installation, operation, and upgrade of a 250-kW turbine on a mountain top with difficult access in Western Massachusetts.
Aristotle's comments do not sound as if they were based on first-hand knowledge of Thales' views, and the doxographical reports say that Thales did not write a book.
