They [the laws] are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labours under ; the scorn of the wicked, the consternation of the good, the refuge of those who violate, and the ruin of those who appeal to them.

The invention of a derivative of a finite partially ordered set by Nazarova and Roiter in the late 1960s or early 1970s was a seminal event in the subject of representations of finite partially ordered sets (see [Simson 92]).

As Dodd – perhaps the only contemporary entertainer who might have made a fist of it – has discovered, in order to survive in a pitiless, hostile environment, you really can't beat a good drum.

Consider, for example, the symbolically overfreighted names she has chosen for her central characters.