Godleman heaved at his first ball, and was lucky that it just cleared mid-on.
Though many of the 43% who voted for Mr Odinga feel aggrieved, most Kenyans have heaved a collective sigh of relief that the wide-scale violence and chaos that ruined the last election, in 2007, have mercifully been avoided.
The owners of Lonmin, a big platinum company, heaved heavy sighs of relief on September 18th, as workers at its mine at Marikana in South Africa signed a deal that ended a six-week wildcat strike that has left 46 people dead.
The world's bankers heaved a sigh of relief at the improved terms—so did many at Bear.
MINISTERS and oil-industry bosses heaved sighs of relief when the owner of the Grangemouth refinery and its workers met for talks on April 29th.
The streets of Tehran, its capital, as well as those of other towns, heaved with opposition supporters, and the ejection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country's firebrand president, seemed a distinct possibility.Yet the incumbent won by a landslide, apparently with the help of massive fraud, leading to months of tumultuous unrest.
When Barack Obama decided to seek congressional approval before firing his cruise missiles, the Lebanese heaved a collective sigh of relief, yet knowing it could be short-lived.
But when the effect appeared modest, economists heaved a sigh of relief and moved on.In recent years, however, the issue has returned.
By the time he died three years ago Turkmenistan had become another planet: isolated from the outside world; its citizens barred from travel; the months of the year named after Niyazov (and his mother).On his abrupt death, the country heaved a sigh of relief.
Some 3,000 civil servants who have reportedly been blacklisted must have heaved a collective sigh of relief.
The markets heaved a sigh of relief and the lira and the Istanbul Stock Exchange began to recover but the currency slid back again later.Under all this pressure, Mr Erdogan's once unassailable popularity may be starting to melt.
