I decided to splash out on a trip around Europe after getting a nice Christmas bonus.

The Safety Board evaluated the sensitivity of the A300-600 rudder system to determine whether it played a role in the accident. Because there is no industry standard measure of pedal sensitivity, Board investigators defined, for the purposes of this evaluation, rudder pedal sensitivity as the lateral acceleration produced in the cockpit per pound of rudder pedal force above breakout force.

As he passed gleaming wooden door after gleaming wooden door, each bearing a small plaque with the owner’s name and occupation upon it, the might of the Ministry, its complexity, its impenetrability, seemed to force itself upon him so that the plan he had been carefully concocting with Ron and Hermione over the past four weeks seemed laughably childish.

Any explanation for the triumph of the 'federalist' or sectionary movement at Toulon must, therefore, begin by examining the profound isolation of the incumbent Jacobin administration.