61.   However, his denials were rejected by Barnard who described himself as a scapegoat and claimed that there was a cover-up going on from ministerial level down.

62.   His appointment was dismissed by the ANC as a sham, although in a seemingly contradictory statement ANC president Nelson Mandela described it as an encouraging step.

63.   The judge Mr Justice described it as heavy and as it was handed to members of the jury he warned them not to drop it.

64.   Many of the local people describe them as being an eyesore, who leave piles of scrap metal and rubbish which cause a smell.

65.   As he spoke he slipped into the description of what had been achieved, emphasizing that staff, increasingly, described themselves as a single body.

66.   We can describe it as the seamless integration of data, text, images and sound within a single digital information environment.

67.   Others, more candidly, describe him as prickly and highly temperamental.

68.   Ellis managed to track down one contemporary who described him as, quote, a horrible little shit who thought he was Napoleon, unquote.

69.   Tennyson describes it as --

70.   Moreover, Avitus of Vienne in a letter to Gundobad describes him as weeping over the deaths of his brothers.