I don't mean the civil-liberties rationale some privacy-minded people might rather like not having all of their international movements spelled out on paper for anyone who picks up their passport.
On the other hand, oceanic plants, cyanobacteria and algae, which use CO2 for photosynthesis, might rather like a world where more of that gas is dissolved in the water they live in a gain, rather than a loss, to ocean productivity.Two reports attempting to summarise the world's rather patchy knowledge about what is going on have recently been published.
He might have rather liked the old boy, but he energetically pressed home his superiority as a curator with shows not just of the big Americans, but of Prunella Clough, Keith Vaughan, Edward Burra and Ceri Richards.
Unless the world economy becomes unfriendly, a second term might look rather like his first.
"My own guess is that they might look rather like plesiosaurs," he wrote.
'You've had periods of lying fallow, as one might say, rather like a field.
She is, one might say, rather like Norway itself, its soul -- half Viking, half Christian -- torn between bold adventure and stark self-denial.
John Milton is the greatest of all English revolutionary poets, a claim which - given the extreme selectness of the company - might sound rather like commending someone as the greatest trombonist in the bathroom.
Which is to say, if you were to wander around your psyche, it might look rather like a room stuffed to the gunnels with dusty old artefacts, some tarnished, and now unloved, some recently rearranged, or polished; rather, in fact, like Sigmund Freud's study.
Curry is good, particularly for famished people who have been up since the very crack of dawn, I might have further added, but Esther gets in first with an announcement that goes: 'I have TO tell you all I AM allergic to curry.' I'm not sure it's the most sensitive remark; might be rather like standing up in synagogue and saying: 'Bagels!
