to accelerate our departure

This intervarsity meet was held in the South China Athletic Association's new Caroline Hill Stadium ...

The conventional wisdom ca. 1980 was that if an investor did not like the way a firm was managed, she could vote with her feet, moving her money elsewhere.

So now we have, ladies and gentlemen, the Botanic Gardens once more to one side, on the right now, as you will appreciate, doing our circuit clockwise around, noting also, if you haven't already, not only the firmly locked until clearly stated opening times (subject to seasonal variation) iron gates, but also the betopped by cruel spikes encircling iron fence, which, should that prove insufficient, supplementarily augmented by the stranding of barbed wire.