He had the bold-faced effrontery to ask for a raise.

What I have done is used a double pole double positon switch to allow me to switch between both pedals on one axis (the normal one), and the pedals on two seperate axiis. It works very well.

The editor asked me to rewrite my article for a non-technical audience.

With this end in view, I at various times forced myself to stop writing and thinking on these abstruse subjects, and made the effort again to ecclesiastify myself and take a church pastorate, or to enter into some business pursuit.