| 1 | He was exalted to the skies. | |
| 2 | And Aristotle's pigeons went with the Church. They had flocked to praise Galileo to the skies, now they begin to peck him to death. | |
| 3 | When the financial hurricane of 2007-08 hit the peripheral economies, it flattened public finances that had been flattered by the boom. |