The principle of joint responsibility, however, did not develop under the diarchical system except in cases where a motion of no confidence in a ministry as a whole was carried in a Legislative Council.

It is a very wholesome and regenerating change which a man undergoes when he comes to himself. […] It is a process of disillusionment. The scales have fallen away.

Every few hundred yards on alternate sides of the route, a wooden waypost about a yard high was set into the ground.

Don’t drop that plate!    The police ordered the men to drop their weapons.