For the purpose of better understanding the ensuing discussion in this chapter, petrocapitalism is said to operate successfully through an intertwined oil complex “that is territorially constituted through oil concessions”.

Bede, never one to shrink from a challenge, focused his energies not only onto calculating Easter but also onto describing why the maths mattered as much as the result. In this, his elevated rhetoric is balanced by a very human enthusiasm — it's hard not to love a writer who signposts his core hypotheses with phrases such as 'now to gut the bowels of this question!'

nectar + -ferous → nectariferous (“producing nectar”)

• Jack, could you take a look at my computer? It won't boot up.
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