(1) Ambler's last novel, The Care of Time (1981), is about a career criminal who's decided to retire; the parallels with Ambler's own career as a writer hardly need spelling out.
(2) Ambler started working for congresswoman Giffords five days before she was shot in the head in a surprise attack at a political event, but it was the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012 that spurred the creation of Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS).
(3) Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.
(4) However, Ambler never intended to be a thriller writer.
(5) Basing the film on Walter Lord's meticulously researched book (adapted by Ambler), Baker opted for a documentary approach that focused on the human interest without recourse to melodrama, making it both moving and exciting.
(6) Graham wasn't the first of Ambler's protagonists to be trained, as Ambler was, as an engineer.
(7) Ambler was by then an ex-Marxist, but when presented with such a rich encapsulation of the pre-1914 Anglo-American class system, he couldn't help himself.
(8) We had no idea how integral the digital space was going to be to our efforts.” Ambler said ARS is using digital technology in four ways to disrupt the NRA and other elements of the gun lobby.
(9) A modification of the spectrofluorometric propranolol procedure of Shand and associates and Ambler and colleagues is presented.
(10) Looking back on his youthful radicalism in Here Lies, Ambler wrote: "If the term fellow-travellers had been used in its present pejorative sense at the time I think that many of us could well have been described in that way."
(11) With the six novels he wrote in the years leading up to the second world war - five of which have just been reissued by Penguin Modern Classics - Eric Ambler revitalised the British thriller, rescuing the genre from the jingoistic clutches of third-rate imitators of John Buchan, and recasting it in a more realist, nuanced and leftishly intelligent - not to mention exciting - mould.
(12) The tautly directed suspense drama, written by Ambler, starred John Mills as an amnesiac who believes himself responsible for an accident in which a child is killed.
(13) It is suggested that this enzyme belongs to class A, according to Ambler (1980).
(14) Most of the heroes of Ambler's subsequent novels are in the same mould: a journalist, a teacher or an engineer rather than a professional spy, short of money, not straightforwardly a member of any one nation-state (Kenton's father was from Belfast, his mother French), and slightly disreputable.
(15) By the time reviews of The Dark Frontier were coming out, Ambler was already deep into his next book, a straight - or at least non-parodic - thriller with the working title Background to Danger.
(16) From behind the keys of his supercharged typewriter, Ambler produced an astonishing four more novels in the next three years: Epitaph for a Spy, Cause for Alarm, The Mask of Dimitrios and Journey into Fear.
(17) From these results, the Ambler and Scott sequence can be attributed to TEM-2 and the Sutcliffe sequence to TEM-1.
(18) - but hardly surprising in a memoir written both at and in a more conservative age (Ambler was by then living in tax exile in Switzerland).
(19) He then transferred to Army Kinematograph, where he was able to make a number of military documentaries under the supervision of the novelist Eric Ambler.
(20) The four enzymes were chromosomally encoded and related to the Ambler's class A plasmid-mediated SHV-type enzymes.
Rambler
Definition:
(n.) One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inner London branch of the Ramblers has also spoken out against the scheme.
(2) The cost of adding a strip of paving or grass on one side would be small but of great benefit both to residents and visiting ramblers.
(3) In 2005, it produced the Exohiker, a bionic walking aid that allows ramblers to trek with heavier loads.
(4) The so-called "naked rambler", Stephen Gough, will spend at least another three months in prison after a judge ruled that he will stand trial in January accused of walking around in public unclothed.
(5) The number of ramblers who have climbed the mountain has boomed since the apocalypse prediction, from 10,000 in 2010 to 20,000 in 2011.
(6) Shit.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the bench in February 1992 as his Limerick team take on Cobh Ramblers.
(7) After far too long spent quizzing 20-something herberts, one of the most fascinating music interviews I ever did was with two elderly Louisianans, Luderin Darbone, 91, and accordionist 93 year-old Edwin Duhon , who formed their Cajun band The Hackberry Ramblers in 1932, and got their first and only Grammy nomination in 1997.
(8) Even in later years, the duke's disputes with ramblers, who used the paths near his home, did not bring him the sort of publicity most stately-home owners would have welcomed.
(9) Planes from America were said to have been fully booked for December with passengers who had only bought one-way tickets, hippy cults were claimed to have built bunkers beneath the village, and half-naked ramblers were said to be seen wandering up the mountain in procession, ringing bells.
(10) As a direct challenge to ownership as exclusivity, there was the mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932, where thousands of ramblers trespassed on private moorland in the Peak District.
(11) He must also ensure that local walkers and visitors will still have unimpeded access to the dunes under Scotland's strict right to roam legislation - rules Trump was unaware of until he was questioned by the Ramblers Association at the planning inquiry.
(12) A letter signed by the Woodland Trust, the Ramblers Association, Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust, the Chilterns Conservation Board, Buckinghamshire county council and MP Cheryl Gillan will be handed to the prime minister on Thursday, asking him to directly intervene in this matter.
(13) Phil Marson, chair of Inner London Ramblers , warned that the impact of the bridge on internationally famous walking trails would be too much.
(14) The Naked Rambler has been arrested three days after he was released from prison.
(15) Most people might be layering up in order to maintain bodily warmth – but not the Naked Rambler.
(16) One Estonian rambler had taken refuge in Rennes-Le-Bain's thermal springs saying, "I went for one walk around Bugarach and was stopped by two TV crews asked if I'd prepared for the apocalypse."
(17) Hammond said ramblers in the Peak District would not be disturbed by bullet trains tearing through an area of outstanding natural beauty, with the Birmingham-to-Leeds line likely to pass between Derby and Nottingham, and to the east of one of Britain's most stunning national parks.
(18) Planned cuts to the Forestry Commission risk the credibility of the independent panel appointed to advise the government on the future of England's forests , the Ramblers charity warned today.
(19) But today Ramblers said the panel would have one hand tied behind its back if government cuts to the commission went ahead before the independent advisers had a chance to report on the organisation.
(20) A person's right to dress as they choose way can be overridden by secular law in certain circumstances – the Naked Rambler has been frequently jailed, and political uniforms were banned by the Public Order Act (1936) .