If we up the volume, we may be able to hear what he says.

Global problems arise from how humans have undervalued each other and miscommunicated with each other.

Analogous structural and political constraints stood in the way of a lasting détente between Germany and Britain.

He assured me that we would be batless by mid-afternoon. When I asked what would become of the bats, he got rather shifty and said that the cyanide would drive them from the house...