Psychologically, the difference is immense: the act of sending the installment reinforces the habit of repaying and one's self-image as a responsible participant in the Zidisha community.
The British soldiers, he said, had been engaged either in "acts of immense bravery or acts of incredible brutality".
To the contrary, police are held to a higher standard and under immense pressure to act with an almost super-human level of restraint when faced with immediate danger and the most testing and stressful of situations.
"I see Michael Vaughan's alter ego as the Viz character 'Raffles - Gentleman thug,'" suggests William Bethnel, "given to immense erudition and acts of wanton violence".
Governments make bad venture capitalists, as the book quotes Larry Summers, a key member of the president's original team, as saying.The truth is that no one really knows yet how well spent the longer-term parts of the immense Recovery and Reinvestment Act will turn out to have been.
It was an act of immense will.
Andrew Hamilton, Oxford's vice-chancellor, called it an act of "immense generosity".
In any event, the former king Louis XVI, now known simply as "Citizen Capet," was executed on January 21 , 1793 in an act of immense symbolic importance.
While the pressure on the administration and Congress to act is immense in the wake of the terrorist attacks, there is rising concern on the left and the right that the rush to respond could erode basic constitutional freedoms.
And yet if Britain walks away, it will be an act of immense political impulsiveness by one of the last countries in Europe that many would expect to behave that way.
