By their nature, railways tend to avoid steep gradients, with the result that these greenways are mostly on level, traffic-free paths, ideal for cycling.

It seems sensible under a range of circumstances to have that power to be able to blueline them— or redline them, as the case may be— so that they are removed from the register.

Scottish broadsword training methods included practice with the singlestick. The singlestick is a wooden rod (usually ash) with a basket hilt. Length was usually 3 feet (just under a meter).

Thus, securitization is the process where issues turn into matters of security through political intervention; these 'security matters' are then taken outside the boundaries of normal politics and the mainstream 'rules of the game' and are subsequently treated as special kinds of politics or beyond politics, therefore potentially justifying actions that fall out of the ordinary political procedures (Buzan et al. 1998: 23-24).