He has a niggling hip injury, which has troubled him on and off over the past year.

This policy has turned out to be an abject failure.

His character was largely destroyed by the report and his career as a distinguished voluntary public servant was brought to an ignominious end.

The judge clearly agreed that nothing could be more contemptible than to use school children as part of an election campaign.

Some of the arguments in favour of shutting the factory are questionable and others downright spurious.

There are lots of really sordid apartments in the city's poorer areas.

Each man carried a rattle to attract attention and a short truncheon for self-protection.

This forlorn industrial town has very high unemployment.

To say that they are "dissembling deliberately" means that they are deliberately lying.