Not only could Darius contribute to keeping people like Darius from the theft of transport, he could possibly prevent others--the really bad guys--from doing much greater harm with the same abilities.
Quite early on in the first book we had been told that "a great destiny" awaited Lyra ("Without this child we shall all die," says the witches' consul, Dr. Lanselius -- and destiny doesn't come much greater than that).
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After all, national emergencies don't come much greater than creditors threatening to blow up the banking system and, with it, people's savings and small businesses' working capital.
("An American Story," the new memoir by the black journalist and lawyer Debra Dickerson, offers a smart, nuanced counterpoint to the strange silence about class in this book -- as does much of the great African-American fiction and autobiography of the 20th century, from Ralph Ellison to Malcolm X to Toni Morrison).
And, despite its flaws, the Settlement's exhibition does much to spur a greater understanding of Jamestown.
Throughout, Valiant Hearts does much to educate: The Great War isn't one tackled by videogames with any kind of regularity, so Ubisoft really has made the effort to pack this game to the gills with background information.
"Although, [Me Before You] discusses the right to die, what it also does in much greater depth -- I hope -- is lay bare the way we treat disabled people as different, when actually they are not.
Ed Vaizey, the culture minister who has done much to champion greater diversity across the creative industries, is expected to welcome Lammy's speech.
In 18 months as president, Mr Uribe has done much to bring greater security to Colombia, long wracked by the violence of the FARC and ELN guerrilla groups and of right-wing paramilitaries.
