Ostensibly advocates and protectors of ecclesiastical possessions, the nobles were in fact anything but reliable servants of their ecclesiastical overlords and instead posed great danger for the bishoprics and abbeys.
But from the mystery of Pia's pregnancy and strange new life in London, where Paul briefly joins her but from which her mother Annelies is shut out, and from the disappearance of Cora's ultra-reliable civil servant husband Robert, Hadley has crafted real excitement so that each story ends in a flurry of curiosity.
The party fell back, albeit reluctantly, upon the expertise of the more reliable tsarist civil servants.
Vampires also have reliable and faithful servants in the upper echelons of most government regulatory bodies, so that they have the opportunity to affect beneficial change from both the public and private sectors.
But for those who have to make big decisions based on a reliable reading of the prime minister's intentions – civil servants, business chiefs, diplomats, heads of foreign governments – the lack of articulate guidance is causing frustration and anxiety.
"I find it a lot more reliable and cheaper than the other lines," added Pitchford, 51, a civil servant from Doncaster, as she was thrown into a wall by the train's sudden swerve.
The Cabinet Office investigation concluded that the civil servant who recorded his conversation with the French consul general was reliable and had acted in good faith.
A huge Arab army gathered at Tarsus; according to the most reliable account, that of Michael the Syrian, it numbered some 80,000 men with 30,000 servants and camp followers and 70,000 pack animals.
Occupation sometimes lends credibility, as well: Public servants, police officers, military veterans, airline pilots and former astronauts are among his most reliable witnesses.
