It would be far-fetched to describe the US and Britain's long-term relationship with Saudi Arabia as a love affair, although elements of romance, blind infatuation and lustful mutual gratification have never been entirely absent.
TAGORE: There is in human affairs an element of elasticity also, some freedom within a small range which is for the expression of our personality.
Already angry with off-field affairs, an element of the Rangers support has made its unhappiness with McCoist's management perfectly plain in recent times.
But Mr. Reagan confirmed for the first time his own involvement in several elements of the affair, including the fact that he actively urged foreign leaders to give money and equipment to the Nicaraguan guerrillas and that he knew of plans to build a secret airfield for the contras in Costa Rica.
The attempted assassination in Jeddah last month of Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, the deputy interior minister for security affairs, demonstrates both elements of the Saudi strategy, and how a bold attempt by al-Qaida to revive its fortunes has failed.
Identity is a complex, fascinating affair, a core element of what it is to be human, and the Welsh settlement in Chubut abounds in interesting questions about it.
Soon after the university made the affair public in August, elements of the Administrative Board's handling of the cases — which was supposed to be confidential — began to appear in The Harvard Crimson.
That Diaghilev didn't bother to conceal the affair infuriated socially conservative elements in the city, and in 1911 led to the withdrawal of the tsar's financial support of the Ballets Russes, and Diaghilev's permanent departure from Russia.
"I have received a letter from Liam Fox requesting that the home affairs select committee consider elements of the Guardian's involvement in, and publication of, the Snowden leaks," Vaz said.
Ruth's mostly lesbian party is an unruly occasion of near affairs and remembered affairs in which odd narrative elements reappear -- an overheard conversation about hemorrhoids; a flirtatious, heavily accented fitness trainer's offer to "read" the mysterious red bumps that have broken out on Ruth's arms.
The party had seemed to be heading for a narrow victory, but the zu Guttenberg affair throws a new element into the mix.
