But Qaddafi is shrewd.

He is a canny businessman that much is clear.

Fearing that a great disaster is going to befall them .

Knowing that they will be subjected to a torment that breaks the backs .

thou mightest think the Calamity has been wreaked on them .

Imagining that there will befall them a waiste breaking calomity .

Thinking that some calamity was about to fall on them

Realizing that a back breaker has befallen them .

believing that a crushing calamity is about to strike them .

Thou wilt know that some great disaster is about to fall on them .

knowing that they will be dealt out a punishment breaking the spine .

so they might think the Calamity had been inflicted upon them .

Expecting that there will be done to them something backbreaking .

certain of facing a great calamity .

Knowing that there will be made to befall them some great calamity .

dreading some great affliction .

In the thought that some back breaking calamity was about to be inflicted on them

Everybody now knows about America s dodgy sub prime mortgages (the term says it all).

Shortly before his unmarked aircraft landed, Pakistan announced the capture in Quetta of Mullah Obaidullah, deputy to the elusive Taliban chief, Mullah Omar.

We should remember this as we pursue the elusive objective of democracy in Iraq, so that we are not surprised if the upcoming election fails to generate a legitimate government.

As long as activists, workers, journalists, and members of opposition parties are starved, gagged, and oppressed, they will keep on protesting and demonstrating until they bid you good riddance!

Ahmadinejad may be bobbing and weaving. But his mercurial ways make it plausible that he may find it politically advantageous to strike a serious bargain on the nuclear issue. Just in case, the diplomatic door should remain ajar.

Of course, like any shrewd politician, Thatcher knew which battles were unwinnable, or had to be postponed but she always preferred winning a fight to reaching a compromise.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA As show trials go, the drama featuring Bo Xilai, the once swaggering, media savvy former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief of Chongqing, veered anomalously into improvisation.