“... this treeless place 180 miles north of the Arctic Circle, partly of driftwood. Not far away, in an anonymous modern building, I came across a Baptist outpost. I put my head inside, saw a handful of worshippers in a small bare room listening to a dark-bearded figure preaching in Greenlandic, and decided to come back later. When I did, I met the pastor, who ...”

“... broadcasts: that as a result ‘his telephone began to ring at odd hours of the night and anonymous voices at the other end of the line threatened him with “being sent to a camp”.’ Stuart told Fisk that he hated the ‘insufferable attitude of Germans when they were on top’ and ‘if I had really asked myself in a sober way in 1940 whether I ...”

“... These stories are now being told in Britain, too. Ericka Ingram’s story is very similar to an anonymous account published in summer 1994 in the British teenage girl’s magazine Mizz. The narrator describes a network of cults whose members sexually abuse children and practise infant sacrifice. The infants are the children of the cult’s adolescent ...”

“... by an anti-Nazi German officer – ‘der Soldat ohne Namen’ – stationed on the island. The ‘anonymous officer’ passed on Allied news and propaganda – Cahun and Moore had a contraband radio and surreptitiously transcribed BBC broadcasts – and exhorted his fellow soldiers to mutiny. Cahun and Moore then left these subversive ‘newspapers’ all ...”

“... seventy storeys. A well-informed observer of the Manchester property scene, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of alienating his clients, told me that ‘everyone’s absolutely buzzing about it, because it’s pushing the envelope in the city.’None of the Great Jackson Street towers includes any affordable housing, defined as homes offered to tenants ...”

“... just come out in support of me,’ Julian said. ‘That’s not the deal,’ I said. ‘I’m anonymous. There’s no point in this otherwise.’ Sarah was clicking on her laptop. ‘That’s quite good,’ she said. ‘I’ve got you £20,000 for doing an hour’s interview by Skype.’ It was for some group of company presidents. ‘That’s not ...”

“... But the impact of the purges extends far beyond Gülenists. With citizens encouraged to provide anonymous tip-offs and senior bureaucrats given incentives to weed out the Gülenists in their departments, petty grievances, rivalries and grudges can easily result in denunciations. Ahmet Şık, the reporter jailed during the Ergenekon trials for investigating ...”

“... an erroneous newspaper article that I never knew even existed.’ The post had prompted a spate of anonymous comments calling him a ‘thief and habitual criminal’ and someone had accused him of stealing from the Pickleball Club.The problem, as the defence attorney calmly established, was that the posts were mostly objectively true and almost all on the ...”

“... come across at the TLS whom I hadn’t been able to use in quite the right way or who’d been anonymous. There were people like Clive James who had appeared in the later issues of the Review. He was terrific and I wanted to use him. I felt I had enough younger people whom I admired, and still had my old chums from the Review, Colin, Hugo, David ...”

“... has changed? To the traveller passing at speed, even to the hiker or dog-walker, farmed fields are anonymous elements that contribute to a pattern. It’s the landscape the eye seeks, not any of the fields making it up. Most fields have no individuality to a stranger; at best, a fine oak in the middle, or a pretty horse grazing. Few can tell crops apart, or ...”

“... had no previous experience. We got no help from the union. We were like a leaf in the wind.’An anonymous spokesman for Mondelez in Poland said, by email: ‘In general we have a constructive relationship with our labour representatives. We are not aware of any Polish industrial tribunal in this case … We do not accept any kind of discrimination, bullying ...”

“... the photos show boxy 1970s cars parked in the background – a peculiarly depressing sight – and anonymous male tourists with period comb-overs and long sideburns. I bought my second-hand copy through the mail from a military book dealer in Dorset and its once-glossy pages reek of must and damp.My own war fixation is equally grim and spinsterish; its roots ...”

“... House signed a letter criticising Dean’s remarks, and the Chicago Jewish Star reported that ‘anonymous attackers … are clogging the email inboxes of Jewish leaders around the country, warning – without much evidence – that Dean would somehow be bad for Israel.’ This worry was absurd; Dean is in fact quite hawkish on Israel: his campaign co-chair ...”

“... strike, this didn’t just take the form of clashes between police, scabs and pickets, or anonymous death threats. Egged on by his older brothers, the seven-year-old Aiden Campbell became the leader of a group of strikers’ sons in his primary school class, getting into fights with the scabs’ children. He’s embarrassed about it now; he says the ...”

“... indignity meted out to Padilla. They didn’t, of course, say how many unknown workers and anonymous peasants had been forced to do the same all over Cuba in the past (since the inception of the Revolution, in fact) and how many more will one day find, in corpore, that Padilla’s public recanting was no cruel and unusual punishment but a confession ...”