authority of agency

All Olwynne could remember, though, was her father falling away from her into some deep pit, his black wings bent over his face, and then hundreds of ravens, an unkindness of ravens, plummeting from the sky to peck out her eyes.

These organisations were put into special measures and their boards placed under high levels of scrutiny around how they were focusing on quality and patient safety issues.

a gasping August, whose hot breath thickened round the Cunarder before she got half-way up the harbor.