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The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, meanwhile - its contribution to the festival hitherto less than assured - played with ferocious commitment.

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The possible significance of reactions between bentonite and high-salinity, magnesium-rich porewater for the sealing properties of bentonite has hitherto received less attention than reactions such as smectite illitization, iron-bentonite interactions and cement-bentonite interactions.

Marcelo Carvalho of Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, points out that Chinese demand for commodities seems to have contributed significantly to faster economic growth, a stronger currency, and lower inflation and interest rates in Brazil.While trade has boomed, Chinese investment in Latin America has hitherto amounted to less than meets the eye.

But much of the erosion of historic protections is in the area of white-collar crime-involving hitherto respectable, if less than universally loved, corporations and businesspeople.

There is also something rather splendid about this extended-play peep show, as if Mr. Maddin had stumbled across a hitherto lost archive of cinema's less-than-innocent past.

So such an approach is a bulwark against extremism but it is also a civilising force in a future in which Western economic and political weight will be less than hitherto.

With Mats Hummels and Jerome Boateng both doubtful for Sunday's match, that hitherto untested pairing may be used again against Scotland, and their less-than-commanding performance should be a source of optimism for the Scots.