AS ANY diplomat from Britain, Austria or Turkey can tell you, handling the legacy of a vanished, far-flung empire is a tricky business.
The 118th had been, unknown to her, a compulsive gambler who vanished not far from Monte Carlo while carrying three million francs of secret service money.
"I vanished so far from public view that I thought of myself… as Mr Nobody".
Staircases and bridges vanish in far more directions, conveying a sense of endless space.
But whether Cites really saves the African grey parrott, the pagolin and the rosewood tree from vanishing is far from certain.
A formalism for describing interface dislocation arrays linking the Frank Bilby equation and anisotropic elasticity theory under the condition of vanishing far-field stresses is developed.
I wiped my cheeks and looked out over the Brooklyn Bridge's pearl-necklace lights, half vanished on the far side.
Europe's wireless lead has now vanished: Japan and South Korea are far ahead, using different technology.So signs that European regulators might soon allow more flexibility, albeit belatedly, in the areas of both licence trading and technology standards, are welcome.
The drug trade has far from vanished, but the long lines are gone.
Most people in modern Britain thought it had vanished without trace but far from being lost in the archives of state anachronisms, the D-Notice Committee is very much alive - and embroiled in fresh controversy.
