To be three sheets to the wind is to say that a four-cornered sail is tethered only by one sheet and thus the sail is useless.

The demand for real-time risk calculations and regulatory capital optimization enables the traditional risk management functions to be integrated into the front office to involve them in the decision-making process.

Choler, having allowed it a drying quality also, and having an acrimony joyned to it, may rather be allowed to create Convulsion, by contracting and convelling the Nerves.

[…]for say what you will about accent being the only element of English verse, any one with a sensitive ear must be conscious that the harmony of a line depends upon some other rhymical element than mere accent.