the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise […]

It seems to me that if they do look for uniformity they are sadly deluded; and they are likely to be the more deluded, the more that theories of transnationalism and mercatorism take hold, and the more common it becomes for parties to choose amiable composition as a basis for resolving "their disputes...

They hoped to hire only the cream of the crop for the new project team.

Volume, however, was only part of the story because the incoming was almost always the heavier stuff. The hill received little 60mm or 82mm mortar fire but a deluge of 120mm mortar and 100mm artillery rounds.