I've witnessed the mompetition on the playground and see it every day on my mom Listservs.

The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.

[The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade / That part of Justice which is Equity.

At that time parts of India were 'covered with republican constitutions', and in fact there is a strong tendency among modern Indian historians to Marxize their early history, and to fit it into the conventional Marxist categories of struggling peasantries, selfish bourgeoisies, oppressive capitalists, and class warfare.