We give a structural description of the finite subsets A of an arbitrary group G which obey the polynomial growth condition for some bounded d and sufficiently large n, showing that such sets are controlled by (a bounded number of translates of) a coset nilprogression in a certain precise sense.

But alas! these thoughts, and wishings, and resolvings, were now too late to help me; this thought had passed my heart, God hath let me go, and I am fallen.

It is not that there is more or less democracy on a local or transnational level but that there are different criteria to assess democraticity depending on the institutional level at which we find ourselves.

In the closing weeks of 1959 and the early weeks of 1960, book dealers must have had a bonanza in selling thesaurusi.