One might hope that, when the Olympics are over, the age of rhetorical gestures will pass, in favour of the less glamorous, more detailed, and more practical.
He had an opportunity to clinch a hat-trick when he and Mark Yeates broke clear, but Yeates ignored his pleas for a square pass in favour of getting Boro's fifth goal himself.
The motion for debate on Thursday simply affirms "the approach to leaving the EU" backed by the Commons on 29 January, when an amendment was passed in favour of an attempt to replace the Northern Ireland backstop with "alternative arrangements".
She invoked a resolution passed in favour of Argentina's call for bilateral discussions with Britain, one of the five, over the disputed islands, and suggested that "differing opinions" should weigh less than resolutions.
If a judgment is passed in favour of the right to open-air cremations, it will be at the cost of Hinduism's credibility as a living, constantly evolving religion, and this is something I, for one, would have to oppose.
They pressed so high, Barcelona were practically inside their own box, forcing them to abandon their game of neat passes in favour of longer balls.
In India, as a precursor to this movement of speaking up, was the crucial verdict in 1990 that was passed in favour of musician Alisha Chinai, who had filed sexual harassment charges against heavyweight music composer Anu Malik.
A non-Texan professor from Princeton, Mr Wuthnow offers a clear-eyed view of the lingering legacies of slavery and segregation, matters that many Texans today prefer to pass over in favour of Alamo heroics.Mr Wuthnow's particular interest is religion, and he sets out to trace the emergence of Texas as "America's most powerful Bible-Belt state".
We – two adults and our two small children – are heading for the red dirt; specifically, the remote north-west of New South Wales, which travellers both Australian and foreign opt to pass on in favour of Uluru/Alice Springs or the Kimberley region of Western Australia when seeking an outback "experience".
Even in London last summer there were daunting hurdles to clear - being passed over in favour of Jason Kenny for the sole spot in the individual sprint, being passed on the back straight by Germany's Maximilian Levy in the keirin final.
Simpson, Jenny Meadows, Marilyn Okoro and Emma Jackson were all passed over in favour of Lynsey Sharp.
