We entered the prætorium and held grave converse.

The television I bought there was so shitty that I will never shop there again.

COP stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph (the Paris agreement in 2015) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009).

I think 10 years old is too young for an abdominal ring.