Sovereignties' foreign relations are all about horse-trading.

Vigils for Nelson Mandela have been held around the world.

I've got only a vague idea about what he'd done in his life. Maybe I'll read more about his life.

The high tide of the American style university education system has already passed, I'm afraid.

I'm telling you, first-generation Chinese immigrants in Canada are sort of like shock troops, figuratively speaking, but unfortunately, many of them, if not the most, die on the beachhead, because they didn't equip themselves with profound foresight.