Some of the charges against them . . . are due merely to the false light in which they are regarded.

Instinctively, he lifted the chair a fraction, and gave it a little scoot away from her.

In the early 1980s the Warty comb jelly or Sea walnut was introduced (probably from the ballast water of ships from North America) to the Black Sea, a habitat in which it had no natural predators. By the summer of 1989 it was proliferating in such numbers and consuming so much plankton in the Black Sea that the fisheries dependent on the plankton crashed.

the committee moved along to the next item on the agenda