And would, say, a Barbara Obama, after just one term as senator, have then stood a chance of being elected to the Oval Office?
He explains that if the Kamba had joined the rebellion, Ernest and Mary Hemingway "would have then stood a good chance of being hacked to death in their beds as they slept by the very servants they so trusted and thought they understood".
He got word to Elke's mother that she should make her way to a farmhouse, owned by a family with whom Dieter had connections, that then stood just beyond the third barbed-wire fence.
In Katherine Mansfield's exquisite long short story At the Bay, Beryl, a middle-aged woman still fantasising about the young girl she once was and the lovers she could have captured then, stands in a darkened room half-imagining someone is out there in the dark, desiring her.
I had to laugh and then stood there for a minute soaking in this wonderful noise.
If you heard the beginning of Lenny Bruce's joke where he blurts out, "How many niggers do we have here tonight?", and then stood up and motherfucked him into silence and stormed out?
"Had you had the love my mother gave us, or the background some have, then you would've stood a chance".
Having won her election, she then stood for the role of Deputy Mayor in 2013.
Since then Seve Ballesteros, Mark James, Sam Torrance, Bernhard Langer, Ian Woosnam and Nick Faldo have all led Europe and then stood down regardless of the result.
If you and your guests want to, make a sign that says "Honk if You Have Bieber Fever!", then stand out on the street and see who honks.
