The English, sentimentally attached to country sports and corporal punishment, are fascinated by cruelty to children and animals; beating the feral, semi-articulate Smike gave them both.
The IMF offers loans with few strings attached to countries with sound finances that are in temporary difficulties.
The IMF sought to discourage sovereign self-insurance in 2009 by offering "flexible credit lines", loans on easy terms and with few conditions attached to countries with responsible macroeconomic policies.
Countries affected by natural disasters that alter their geographical, economic and societal landscapes tend to receive greater amounts of aid and with less conditions attached than countries experiencing civil wars or terrorist insurgencies that result in similar if not more severe consequences.
The Glaswegian and Dundonian examples may come as some sort of solace to separatists in regions which are currently attached to countries less obliging of noisy minorities and aspirant orphans than the UK is: Catalonia, the Basque Lands, Corsica, Britanny, Bavaria, Flanders.
The International Monetary Fund came to the rescue during the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, extending multimillion-dollar loans, with conditions attached, to countries in need.
And he was describing himself as well when he cited Bloch: "Attached to my country, fed with her spiritual heritage and its history, unable to imagine any other country where I could breathe freely, I loved and served it with all my strength.
Still deeply attached to that country, Hemingway made four trips there, once more a correspondent.
