The Roman Month its several days divides By reckoning backwards, Calends, Nones, and Ides.

As a politician, he was very adept at speaking mendaciously in public.

The teenager couldn’t bear the shame of introducing his parents.

Corruption, the Court declared in Buckley v. Valeo, involves a quid pro quo: an officeholder doing something in office in return for money or some other favor provided by another individual or entity (for our purposes, a corporation). The problem, however, is that in principle there can be a quid—the money or favor offered by the business to the official—and a quo—the action taken by the official that benefits the business—without any clear evidence of a pro, that is, that the two are connected.[…]The “pro,” the connection between quid and quo, might take place only inside the minds of the official and businessperson concerned.[…]What this means is that we cannot use the quo itself as indirect evidence for the pro.