But it is to be weary we know not why, to be weary yet unrelated, girt up in a cold universal laissez-faire.
These indicate the girding up of the loins of a nation determined to go ahead on new paths.
I think that all of us were girding our loins.
A major effort lies ahead of us in that regard, and we, the current generation, will have to gird ourselves up for it.
We can already see quite divergent national interests girding their loins to jeopardise the ambitious objective of making this project a reality by 2004.
It is one thing to gird at the lack of skilled management and another thing to devise means of curing that lack.
We must gird up our loins and crack back.
We must gird our loins and stop our nimbyism.
