"It didn't get the strongest winds in the eye wall but it certainly got a period of nearly three hours of sustained gale force winds and wind gusts in the 95 to 100km/h range".
The strongest elements of Clegg's speech measured by the applause were around this track record in coalition.
It goes without saying that the football world always has its eyes firmly fixed on number one draft picks, a level of expectation and attention that could get the better of even the strongest mind.
I thought he was the strongest on the night.
In the audience was the "candy bomber" Gail Halvorsen, now 92, who, as an American airforce pilot, dropped sweets to children during the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, which kept the city's population alive during the Soviet blockade and which became the strongest symbol of US-German friendship.
The home side will need to start well with Wales by some way the strongest finishers in the tournament in recent years, but the Lions pain of O'Driscoll and Heaslip should mutate into gain.
Furniture sales were the strongest seen for some time and gift sales were up 18%.
"We can only achieve that journey up a stairwell with the strongest and most coherent narrative imaginable and we lost that pretty soon after the budget last year," he said.
In the inter-war period, German football had been among the strongest in Europe.
Most Labour MPs in its heartland areas where the yes vote is strongest have substantial 30% to 40% majorities, making it far harder to predict which could be most at risk.
My strongest memory is of one early-evening phonecall: for at least three minutes, the voice at the other end insisted I was connected to the "Man of Mystery", and tied me in knots, before I swore in frustration, and Thorgerson wearily played it straight, wondering when the deadline was, and how the book was going.
