Americans are now girding themselves for the prospect of both a partisan battle over impeachment and perhaps the most fiercely contested election in recent memory.
On June 17th Moody's, a credit-rating agency, agreed that the plan was ground-breaking, “girding the city for a tough fight with creditors of all types”.
Detached rocks stood upright afar, a collar of foam girding their bases, and repeating in its whiteness the plumage of a countless multitude of gulls that restlessly hovered about.