Mr. Putin has reinvigorated an alliance that spent years confused about its purpose once it lost the adversary it was formed to contain, the Soviet Union. Now, containment is back.
Yes, the originals were fantastic, perhaps even unmatchable.
The Chairman added that the presentation to Mr. Cutts would not be complete without a gift for Mrs. Cutts, who had also shown considerable interest in the National Farmers' Union, and he had great pleasure in handing to her a gold wristlet watch, which was inscribed with her monogram.
[He] broke down a slap, as he called it, in a dry stone fence, and lugged the unresisting animal [a horse] through the breach, about a rood of the simple masonry giving way in the splutter with which he passed.
