Darren Clarke, surely, should look favourably upon a competitor placed into a dilemma on the simple basis he was successful.
This triumph for the men from the north east bore all the hallmarks of the 1980s on the simple basis it was fully deserved.
McIlroy has every right to be wounded by this result on the simple basis that it was unfair, even if he has far bigger career priorities.
In government, it could set an example to other countries by calling time on the already unpopular idea of fracking, on the simple basis that this is no time to be wasting resources on fossil fuels.
A ragged opening to the second period would have been of concern to Strachan on the simple basis that Scotland did not create a clear-cut chance despite territorial dominance.
Keane's part in that rehabilitation would probably be unreported were it not for the former BBC journalist Simon Austin, a friend of Charles, writing a blog about it, on the simple basis he "thought it was a story worth telling".
These days there are a mere 14 towers, but once there were 72 – a testament to the phallus obsession of the town's medieval clan chiefs who sought prestige on the simple basis that size matters.
This overlooks the simple basis upon which accounting was founded: to account for transactions.Transactions begin and end on specific dates, which coincides nicely with the concept of historical cost and "hard and fast" figures.
However, his claims have been almost universally rejected by technology experts and historians, on the simple basis that you can't invent something during (or after) 1978 that was already in widespread use by that time.
In football terms, Scotland has seriously declined from the position of the late 1980s where Aberdeen, Hearts and Dundee United started campaigns with legitimate aspirations of challenging the Old Firm for the championship, on the simple basis that they all had fine sides.
