They are heavily influenced by negative, second-hand stories about methods of contraception from their friends and the media.

There is a second-hand story to had appeared in The Outlook magazine and re-published in several articles.

All of the evidence justifying the drug testing program "consisted of first- or second-hand stories of particular, identifiable students acting in ways that plainly gave rise to reasonable suspicion of in-school drug use."

These authors also described second-hand stories of the mountainous part of Ethiopia where the Nile was said to rise.

"Nuns at Luncheon" is a second-hand story told of a nun falling in love.

Such beliefs are born out of first-hand experience and second-hand stories.

Sometimes these accounts differ and it cannot always be determined if second-hand stories relayed through history orally were intended as fiction (dream-time story) or factual.

It is framed as a second-hand story heard by another train rider, with the narrator using the vernacular and mannerisms of a politician rather than a common man.

Did you ever visit the country as a child, or was it a place that you also knew through second-hand stories?

The wounds for the first are too raw, while the latter group, feeling no nostalgia, has no personal wounds, only second-hand stories of pain from parents and grandparents.