When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government is lost.

[…] and in Ireland it so happened, that these four families emerged victorious out of the septal struggles.

Later, in the 1980s, western scholars found that, notwithstanding the substantial Soviet military buildup near the Chinese borders in the late 1960s, it was Beijing that initiated the clash on Zhenbao (Damanski) Island.

Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.