Sentence examples for firsthand description from inspiring English sources

Mr. Elliot's book may well be the most sustained firsthand description of life in Afghanistan to be produced by a foreign observer in recent years.

This correspondence tells a public story, through Hickok's firsthand description of the Depression, and at the same time follows the private course of a love affair and its cooling, not without pain, to friendship.

By the 16th century, when the next available firsthand description was written, the city was abandoned, and all that remained were the jungle-covered remnants of the ancient temples and the ruins of the once-magnificent system of reservoirs and waterways.

Those deeply personal firsthand descriptions were unlike any previous account of the Holocaust.

We have firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails.

Firsthand descriptions of Modigliani's character are wildly contradictory, as if each friend had seen a different facet of his personality, a different performance.

Haideri was apparently a source for Secretary of State Colin Powell's claim, in his presentation to the United Nations Security Council on February 5th, that the United States had "firsthand descriptions" of mobile factories capable of producing vast quantities of biological weapons.

Six weeks before the U.S. invasion, in a February 5 , 2003 address to the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell — who had initially found the intelligence on W.M.D.s inconclusive — spoke of unnamed eyewitnesses, one of whom had supplied "firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and rails".

"We have firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails," Powell said.

"We have firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails," he said at the time.

Some have warned that the current abundance of the real visual thing threatens to make sportswriting, and its description of action witnessed firsthand, anywhere from less important to not important at all.