I do not wish to canter across the broad meadow of the reasons why we are introducing this legislation.
Therefore, the whole of that preliminary canter has to some extent been in vain.
He may take a canter round the whole field of criminal law, and nobody can complain if he does.
He says that the smaller conference now proposed will be a "preliminary canter" for the big one.
Today is a general canter round the course.
They will use all the means at their disposal to ensure that we do not get further than a preliminary canter round the course.
But a description in depth of the country's short-term and medium-term prospects hardly lends itself to a 15-minute canter.
Year after year it seems to me to be a one-horse race with the farmers winning in a canter.