Strawbale construction is a sustainable method for building, from the standpoint of both materials and energy needed for heating and cooling.

The other passengers were three Norwegians, three fossil Englishmen, two snobbish do., and some jolly, good-natured, free-and-easy youths.

[W]e could define a national parliament broadly as a Member State's central representative assembly which elects or at least dismisses the national government, and which holds it to account. This seems to be a robust definition comprising the unicameral parliaments, the lower chambers of the bicameral parliaments and the senates with censure powers in the EU Member States.

Playing amateur sleuth . . . frees her wicked tongue to spill the beans about her neighbors’ secret vices and adulterous affairs.