These were the things that went through his mind as he sensed something bearing down on him from behind.
In part, this was because instead of saying "birth certificate" on top, it said "certification of live birth" and it was a printout of a computer record, rather than something bearing the scrawl of an obstetrician.
Something of a collectors' item for featuring Johnny Marr on trademark chiming guitar and Kirsty MacColl on backing vocals, it's a shimmering, upbeat Afropop dance song bearing one of Byrne's most laugh-out-loud, funny-acerbic lyrics.
But this has no bearing on nutrition.
Moreover, agreements bearing on nuclear arms have traditionally been treaties.
Do you knock up something quick, bearing in mind the urgent need, or something lasting, bearing in mind the mistakes of the past?
This is the context in which I ponder what could easily be dismissed as an insignificant, ho-hum event, but which strikes me as potentially something else -- a bearing down on the global antiwar lever.
"I slowly recognized that it was not just the plants I wanted to study, but the context in which plants grow--the ecosystem as a whole," says Hoft, "I knew that I wanted to do something applied, something that could have real bearing on day-to-day decisions in conservation management".
You were trusted to do something that has no bearing on who you are or what you believe.
Franklin Roosevelt famously said on taking office in 1933, 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself.' Most of us have unreasoning fears which creep unwanted into the mind, and bring a shudder; mine are about overwhelming torrents of muddy water, at seeing and hearing a towering wall of water bearing down on me; something moving so fast that there is no chance of escape.
If you recognise the experiences he is describing, or something he says has some bearing on your own emotional state, then reading Phillips can feel like an approximation of what it might be like to be in analysis.
