Forget, for the moment, that the men Abdel Basset al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah, the two Libyans charged with planting the bomb in the Pan Am airliner that blew up over Lockerbie in December 1988, killing 270 people are probably small cogs in a scary wheel and that it took a long time and considerable compromise to get them to trial.
"We are small cogs in this massive campaign," he said.
"Mum, Dad, Mike and I are just small cogs in this massive campaign and we are continually humbled by people's generosity and outpouring of support".
The Center for American Progress reports that high estimates of the number of small business that could be affected by allowing the Bush Tax Cuts to expire are "only accurate if you take an incredibly expansive view of what constitutes a small business" -- such as including small cogs in larger corporate wheels or wealthy Americans making some income off of small business investments.
Obviously, their absence is not healthy for the fabric of the community--and less obviously, the departed men have become small cogs in a relentless machine, the extent of whose deep injuries to the forest and its peoples is only now crystallizing for all to see.
In reality, who he is makes practically no difference; he will simply be a highly skilled but nonetheless small cog in a much bigger machine – relying on others and being relied upon in equal measure – which is probably something he is really looking forward to.
For Matt Mueller, editor of film industry trade magazine Screen International, BBC Films "have a small budget compared to the BBC's TV operation but managed to be very successsful – they may be a small cog in a bigger machine, but they are hugely important in the film industry, as one of three main sources of development funding.
But enough to believe that as a small cog in a larger political wheel, I do my teeny weeny bit to express public disquiet and prod the powerful for answers.
So now you see not only that the poor little "vagina" is just a small cog in Operation Sexual Woman but, one might point out, that it is the one part of the whole that men are most interested in for their own pleasure.
Eichmann called himself a "small cog" in the Nazi war machine, but Stangneth draws on recently released documents to show that he was anything but.
