Russia's own history, its heavy dependence on easily looted natural resources and the evidence so far all make it seem likely that the country will find itself in the second category, not the first.Mr Putin's experiment does seem to have made the state a little stronger and quite a lot more stable, but not noticeably more efficient, and certainly no more accountable or transparent.
It seems impossible to resist the impression that "the Lady" is a paragon no more – and certainly no human rights defender, as she herself reminded journalists recently.
The gun industry should bear the same liability risks as any other product manufacturer or seller — no more, and certainly no less.
"I've got no plans to do anything more, and certainly, no involvement with any Justice League project," Nolan said to EW.com last month.
No more isolated beaches hidden from sight, no more police and certainly no more prison.
Like investors in crappy mortgage-backed security derivatives that banks convinced people were trustworthy because the risk was in effect aggregated, we forgot that polls aggregation does not make the polls any more factual, and certainly no more important.
In short - no more heroes anymore, and certainly no more martyrs.
Surely not more drugs or parties and certainly no more Mick.
The sad truth about the book world is that it doesn't need more yes-saying novelists and certainly no more yes-saying critics.
The reality is that the foreign volunteers never constituted more than a tiny minority, certainly no more than 20,000 and probably fewer, of the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of fighters who took part.
