Israeli soldiers . . . impose the curfews as collective punishment or as a means to head off violent protest, or simply to show who's boss.

The lever sticks if you push it too far up.

Quebec children left home slightly earlier than their Maritime counterparts: the singulate mean age at marriage for Québécoise women was 25 compared to 26 among Nova Scotian women, while the singulate mean age at marriage for Québécois men was 27 compared to 29 for men in Nova Scotia.

If it be asked what is the one predominant thought in the Epistle, its one idea and motive, the answer seems to be neither (as some have supposed) the blessedness of enduring temptation — thought this is very prominent in it; nor a polemic against mistaken impressions respecting justification by faith, though that occupies an important section; nor an Ebionising exaltation of the poor over the rich, though the rich are sternly warned ; nor a contrast between the friendship of the world and the enmity of God.