Many thought him lucky to keep his job last year, when he cavorted in a swimming-pool with his girlfriend for a glossy magazine.
His subordinates thought him crazy, just as he had thought Burnside crazy when he was a subordinate, but he had his plan in mind.
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And - on the eve of Mr Jones' keynote speech to his party conference in Llandudno - 13% of people thought him to be a better leader than predecessor Dafydd Wigley.
Mr Modi, on the other hand, has attracted intelligent and ambitious strategists, such as Arun Jaitley, who would not waste their talents on him if they thought him no more than a provincial demagogue.
When he entered the Knesset in 1973 many thought him dull and boorish, and were surprised that he made a decent Speaker and, in 1980, a foreign minister with a genuine and knowledgeable interest in foreign affairs.
Martin was what his family called him and Aisling thought of him as that when she was in her convent classroom, and every night before she went to sleep.
The Twins were not going to be able to afford to re-sign him, so they thought trade him while we can still get something for him, otherwise he leaves next year and we get nothing.
And I regret some of the terrible things I thought about him so long ago.
In 1997, he asked a free-market former minister, Alain Madelin, what his followers thought of him.
His family had not thought of him as being artistically talented until he won the competition.
Students thought of him as smart, nice and always prepared but considered him somewhat of a recluse, this classmate said.
But a great virtue of the diaries is that Clark did not give a hoot what we thought about him.
But at that moment, the thought of him dying in his element, with the man he'd mentored for ten years, was a comfort to me.
He was nominated for a Nobel peace prize, praised by Pope John Paul II, and many of his followers thought of him as a saint.
While it was happening, I wanted to do anything Jobs asked, because he was able to seem like he didn't care what we thought of him.
This thought of him as a patient and curious voyager forced my hand, to delve deep, to read the plaques, to slow down and just gaze at the blinding white stone columns.
She was a Hungarian Jew, and a psychotherapist, an irony not lost on those who have known Denton a long time and have never thought of him as being especially in touch with his feelings.
He was on the train back to his office two years ago after leading a coaching session when the thought struck him that he needed to follow his own advice and move out of his own comfort zone.
My teacher was a deeply tanned fellow named Aryeh, who told me he one day hoped to compete for the Israeli Olympic team. (I thought of him four years later, when Gal Fridman's Athens windsurfing victory landed Israel its first-ever Olympic gold).
"I thought Trey fouled him, and then I thought the whistle was going to blow, and then I just went for the ball, " Hardaway said.
Killeen and Graham Onions came within a whisker of bowling him, Gibson thought he had run him out by flicking a Pietersen drive on to the stumps at the non-striker's end, and mis-timed drives fell short of fielders on countless occasions.
"I told him I thought it would be best for him to remove himself from the case, and he said he would, " Spector said.
"A car stopped outside the door and I thought it was him, " she said.
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