We trudged into the lost luggage office, where the American equivalent of our French helper stood, equally unsympathetic.
Today I stand equally proud, as the first woman president of our African continent, a continent that has embraced the process of change and transformation.
The real change in Athenian politics came only with the loss of the empire in 404 and the resulting partial breakdown in the "consensus politics" that had prevailed hitherto (because all social classes stood equally to gain from the empire, which financed political pay, provided land for all, and cushioned the rich against the cost of furnishing the fleet).
It is good, however, to be reminded of a line from Wittgenstein's Tractatus, first used in a computer poem in the 1970s and reprised here, which could stand equally above the entrance to the city of Glasgow and as a motto for the work of Edwin Morgan: "The world is everything that is the case".
Campaigner Bert Biscoe, an Independent councillor who is a member of the group, said: "I very much welcome that the Cornish as a group can stand equally beside all other groups in British society".
Where I stand, equally, is next to two tiny children who, so far, think I'm pretty amazing at what I do.
Instead, we need to keep climbing up that goal ladder and shatter that glass ceiling until men and women truly stand equally on that roof and breathe in the free air.
In 1966, Virginia Radley argued, "Although no conversation poem can rightly be said to stand equally with the poems of high imagination certainly "Frost at Midnight" and "This Lime-tree Bower... ...... both have within them that quality of heart so essential to these latter poems.
Before a government counter-offensive pushed the rebels back, the Syrian National Coalition, an opposition umbrella group backed by Washington and its allies, touted the Latakia campaign as a "great battle of liberation" in which the Free Syrian Army would "stand equally before all the components of Syrian society despite their religious or racial origins".
And to my mind, A God in Ruins stands as an equally magnificent achievement.
