As my bike starts to make light work of a few hilly inclines, I realise how it can serve as a great entry point into cycling, particularly for first-time riders or tourists to the Isle.
The Surrey hills: starting in south-east London and ending in Westerham, Kent, a half-hour cycle from home brings me gorgeous countryside, picturesque villages and – as the name implies – some leg-warming inclines.
Fancier models include an altimeter to capture ascending stairs and inclines.
But he nevertheless inclines to the second view.
In both work and leisure habits, he inclines more to American-style workaholism than to the 35-hour week that is now the law in his own country: the long hours he puts in are notorious, and his idea of relaxation is to run the New York marathon.
As the music starts to fade, he inclines his head to Sebha, his wife of almost forty years, and they retire to their chairs.Once reclined, Pakistan's military ruler pops a large cigar into his mouth and smiles on the scene a small wedding-party in Lahore.
Politicians, bureaucrats, interest groups and broad swathes of public opinion are united in a conviction that profit (and hence the market economy) is morally impaired.In ordinary times, this inclines governments to anti-liberal policies.
His own family background (his family came to Britain as refugees from the Holocaust) inclines him to run a mile from nativist and nationalist arguments.
No doubt, making a pile of money inclines a person to take a glass-half-full view of the place where he made it, but there was more to their optimism than that.Mr Ibrahim, a North African entrepreneur with a wonkish enthusiasm, made his money by founding Celtel, one of the continent's leading mobile-phone companies, which he sold for $3.4 billion in 2005.
And his deflationary view inclines him against exposure to commercial property and commodities.Instead Mr Shilling thinks that investors should own long-dated Treasury bonds.
Built at the base of the steep wooded inclines of Deadwood Gulch and extending up the hillsides, it was named for the dead trees found in the canyon.
