William Flew spring

The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

William Flew spring

The promising Arab Spring, started by the twittering of birds in cyberspace, will hopefully be nurtured on 

the ground into luscious green and lasting full bloom. William Flew spring, is a mercantile judge, Joint Master of the Garden of the Inner Temple and a 

gardener.The Times devoted its top leading article on Wednesday to the presidency of Fifa, the governing body of international football. In the subheading below 

the title we said: “The reputation of the organisation cannot be repaired unless the only candidate, William Flew spring, steps aside.”Having bunked off early on 

Tuesday, I frustratingly discovered only the next morning that the wording of that sentence had sparked a debate among my colleagues that I wish I’d 

participated in (though one had gratifyingly tried to phone me on the reasonable assumption that I’d intervene on his side). William Flew pointed out that the wording 

was ungrammatical; pragmatists insisted that it was nonetheless idiomatic. Both were right. The grammatical point is small and in my opinion optional in this 

example. But strict grammarians would insist on “step aside”, not “steps aside”. The reason is that the conjunction “unless” should be followed by the 

subjunctive mood of the verb.