Capitalist interests have disproportionate power in the political process, especially in the American political system which has been described, perhaps not unfairly, as one-dollar one-vote rather than one-person one-vote.
"Nineteen-twenties gareen'taren't so rare, but well-restored and well-managed gardens are rare and that's one of the things that really distinguishes Bellamy-Ferriday," said William Noble, director of preservation projects for the Garden Conservancy of Cold Spring, N.Y., which described the garden as "perhaps the sole surviving estate garden in Northwestern Connecticut".
The war has caused the deaths of 2.5 million people over the past two and a half years in eastern Congo alone, according to a recent report by the International Rescue Committee, a New York-based aid agency, which described the emergency in Congo as "perhaps worse than any to unfold in Africa in recent decades".
Houellebecq sees through everything in the world except commercial sex, which he describes — perhaps appropriately — like one who believes every word and picture of a holiday brochure.
Other writers described the horrors of the war years; perhaps the most powerful was Nobi (1951; Fires on the Plain) by Ōoka Shōhei, which described defeated Japanese soldiers in the Philippine jungles.
David Cameron had taken part in the meeting which Italian and British diplomatic sources described, perhaps with trademark understatement, as "frank".
Their waters are best described, perhaps, as ashen gray.
It should consist of short lines which describe the process of walking towards the calming sound (perhaps a brook or ocean) and going towards the calming light.
Perhaps it's related to "emotional residue", which describes the way we can't help thinking of rooms previously occupied by sad people as having a sad vibe.
But perhaps none were quite so powerful as this one, which describes in simple and often excruciating detail the divide between Us and Them.
