Roy's geniality and shrewdness proved their worth through many crises, not least the battle over Death On the Rock, the 1988 This Week documentary about the shooting by the SAS of three would-be IRA bombers in Gibraltar.
Three years later, the Thatcher government failed in its attempt to prevent transmission of the Thames TV documentary Death on the Rock, which investigated the killing by the SAS of three IRA members in Gibraltar, but, probably not coincidentally, Thames later lost its ITV franchise through a new Thatcherite bidding process.
Asked by Liz why he wanted to become a spy, the MI6 man replies: "The chance to practise deceit that has always come naturally". There are other digs at MI6, which is implicated in the denouement of the novel, in which Liz accuses the SAS of "murder, plain and simple".
This claim could be taken in conjunction with Brailsford's desire, expressed near the beginning of the documentary, to turn Team Sky into "the SAS of the Olympic world" – a statement emphasised with one of his characteristic chopping hand gestures, intended to convey managerial decisiveness.
A two-level structured surface (SAS) of polymer has been synthesized by Zhou and Huch [43].
In order to analyze user acceptance, the System Acceptance Scale (SAS) of van der Laan et al. is used [40].
Oncologists are painted as heroic warriors, the SAS of the medical world - sometimes fighting hand to hand with scalpels, sometimes using lasers, ray guns and chemical weapons.
Each of the two scales alone, Usefulness Scale and Satisfying Scale, leads to similar results as the combined SAS of Fig. 11.
After patients were awake, if they were calm and collaborative (SAS of 4), they would be kept without infusion of sedatives.
