He ducked dexterously, and the stool crashed to its own detriment against the wall.

For one thing, many people regard rationality as an epistemically internalist notion, whereas reliability is a paradigmatic example of an epistemically externalist notion.

Ambrose laughed as he lurched backwards and then clomped with his gold-tipped walking stick to the bed.

Two factors made the Ministry untenable; private industry considered the featherbedding of the public sector to be unfair competition. Since the DC depends on private industry for much of its support, continuing the practice would have compromised this support.