If the Japanese are the only producers of octolingual word processors the price will not be important; and if the relative deterioration of the British human capital stock continues, no rate for the pound against the yen will stimulate British exports from knowledge-intensive activities in either goods or services.

Once a parliament abolishes capital punishment, it's very hard to unabolish it. And the European Union has made abolition a de facto condition of membership.

O generous food! / Drest as though bold Robin Hood, / Would, with his maid Marian, / Sup and bowse from horn and can.

Marvell is as careful here to ambiguate the nature of his poem's speaker as he was in presenting the 'forward youth' of the 'Horatian Ode'.