"Religious belief" plainly includes belief in the teachings or practices of a religion or its followers.
It hardly seems fair to expect New York's next mayor to have tragic dimensions, but the job description now plainly includes not just fixing schools and throttling crime but also holding hands and rousing battered spirits.
Many politicians, the chancellor included, are plainly fed up.
The most impressive displays were plainly big business, and included Remington Rand's Univac 490 Real-Time System.
Other more plainly political candidates include Mehdi al-Hafez, the planning minister, an old friend of Mr Brahimi; Ibrahim al-Jaafari, head of the Shias' Dawa party, which may be the country's most popular; Ayad Allawi, head of the Shias' Iraqi Nation Accord; and Adel Abdel Mehdi, of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).
Sam Jordison is kicking things off today with a look at Raymond Briggs's sweetly lugubrious Father Christmas, and in the coming days we'll be looking at The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden, The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper and The Box of Delights by John Masefield, as well as less plainly festive fare including Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections.
His students included Henri Matisse, who plainly gleaned much about color from him, and Georges Rouault, who found uses for the Master's broody paint handling.
Plainly, a trip around the world to visit many of the locations included in The Story of God was not feasible.
"Those words are plainly wide enough to include matters of policy and funding criteria," he said.
Mr. Obama did not mention his rival in his speech to about 5,000 troops, but, plainly referring to Republicans including Mr. Romney, he did say that the soldiers should ignore political talk of major cuts ahead in military spending.
