1 | They speak of humanity. | |
2 | The lip service the Kuomintang paid to democracy particularly nauseated the Manchurians . | |
3 | The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift, and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. | |
4 | This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. | |
5 | the Kyoto Protocol (an international pact aimed at reducing greenhouse emissions) will seem like childish prattle. |