Summing up a complex analysis […] we can say that [Peter] Pilz succeeds in turning Mayr's fierce endeavours of enforcement against himself, and his bonmot about the state of politics during socialist rule becomes widely cited in the next day's press.

If I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him.

Here on the north bank sat the city of Chao-ch'ing (Establish-Fortune), a Chinese Vicksburg, commanding the river route to Canton.

...an elevation of earth which is effected behind fortified places, to secure them from any attack that may be made in reverse. Parapet and parados come from terms signifying in the front or in the rear of anything.