She couldn't quite shatter the glass ceiling in 2008, but she vowed that the "18 million cracks" she had etched in it would help ensure it would yield in the end.
The upcoming spending review provides a renewed opportunity to develop this approach for more difficult and complex social issues, and to bring greater scale, ambition and capability to help the vast numbers of people who have fallen through the cracks of confusing and siloed public services.
But we're seeing cracks in a clearly unsustainable legal situation and boats are still attempting to come, even if they are being turned back".
Why, even though the Lib Dems have signed up to the forecasts and broad policy, cracks are appearing in the ranks.
But cracks are appearing in this strategy, and Carr should be congratulated for slamming the groups and power centres that aim to continue this dysfunctional alliance.
But the alliance, whose members have widely differing political ideologies, is already showing cracks as long-standing differences emerge.
The cracks on the pitch had opened further but as David Gower, one of England's more successful batsmen at the Waca has said, the ball generally does too much from them, spectacular but rarely destructive, and the key is to concentrate on the 99% of deliveries that do not hit them, something that Stokes in particular managed.
A government preaching fiscal discipline should not be letting £200m slip between the cracks.
In 1947, a pair of doctors at St Thomas's Hospital in London performed their own investigation into the nature of knuckle cracks.
Armed with impressive detail, the PM papered over cracks and cost-cutting risks with aplomb.
"I know as a batter what it's like when you see the cracks there – and they were big cracks.
