… / In these shaken times, who more than you holds / In the wind, our bittermelon, steadily facing / Worlds of confused bees and butterflies and a garden gone wild".
But you don't go to her for fine language, you go to her for plain truths, a driving storyline and a clear eye, steadily facing the history of our world.
And if the future of work is, as many argue, increasingly flexible, casual, various and scarce, it's arguable that those short of it will steadily face exacerbated economic risk.
Facing steadily increasing fuel prices, for example, manufacturers would scramble to develop more efficient vehicles.
Like other European countries, Britain is facing steadily mounting pressure from migrants desperate to escape impoverished or oppressive lands.
It will be a relief for Rod Bransgrove, chairman of Hampshire and a pharmaceuticals millionaire, who has been the driving force behind the Rose Bowl's rise but who was facing steadily mounting losses and who described Hampshire's failure to win an Ashes Test in 2013 and 2015 as "a crushing blow".
According to Mr Merrick, countries such as India and Bangladesh, where fertility rates have been declining steadily, may nonetheless be facing this gloomy prospect.In other words, declining fertility rates may be a necessary condition for economic improvement: but not a sufficient one.
Today's farmer faces steadily rising costs, while commodity prices remain low and flat.
Schools must show sufficient progress by each of these groups or face steadily tougher consequences that can ultimately include closing.
A few — certainly Kandinsky, by fits and starts; Malevich, for a torrid spell; and Mondrian, with steadily growing command — faced down the Spanish basilisk.
The authority faces steadily rising costs, particularly for fuel, as well as sharply declining tax revenues due to a slowdown in the real estate market.
