"The irony is," says Dixon, "I embarked on them both at the same time, then lost them both in the same month.
Nor will these renegotiations begin to serve the cynical purpose for which Mr Cameron embarked on them.
Weir assembled and trained his battalion at Morphettville Racecourse, then embarked with them on the transport Ascanius on 20 October 1914.
And you can embark upon them and embrace them and give themselves to you.
Very few projects end in exactly the way you would think when you embark on them.
Other projects are more accidental; that is, she embarks on them without knowing the outcome.
Literally, children are led on these voyages by a parent's voice, and often embark on them from the comfort of a parent's lap.
It also helps to explain the steeliness of Nato's high command, despite the indoctrination of the post-Vietnam US Army to avoid wars whenever possible, and only embark upon them with maximum and overwhelming force.
THE New York Times's Josh Barro recently published a magnum opus on the decline of the mileage run, the famed business traveller and airline enthusiast pastime of identifying which routes earn the most frequent flyer miles for the least amount of money and embarking on them for fun and profit.
I knew these essays would be good when I asked this extraordinary group of writers to embark on them, but I could never have imagined just how good they would be, until they began arriving in my computer.
