lawfulness; propriety; reasonableness; appropriateness; legality; legitimacy
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
to state; to express; to mention
bloody; gory; covered in copious amounts of blood; desperate; frantic
fate; destiny; connection; tie; pretext; justification
bargaining; haggling; tactics; strategy
just what you'd expect from ...; that's just like (him, her, etc.); that's (exactly) why ...; that's (precisely) the reason ...
to apply pressure (on); to bring pressure upon; to lean on
extraordinary; special; exceptional; non-standard grammatical construction; ungrammatical usage; solecism
therefore; and so; for that reason; accordingly; consequently; hence
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
treatment; reception; service; working conditions; salary; pay
to fill to capacity; to pack; to complete; to tessellate
to line up with; to be a member of; to rank with; to attend; to take part in
to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind
blind spot (e.g. of a driver); dead angle; dead ground; dead space
(one's) inner voice; voice of one's heart; what one really thinks
way (of doing); manner; method; means
sooner or later; in due time; in due course
bloodsucking; sucking blood
to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange
to vanish gradually (e.g. of a voice); to trail off; to die away; to feel one's soul leaving one's body (from embarrassment, grief, etc.); to feel faint; to feel numb
loud shout; excited cheering
cease-fire; truce; armistice
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
to get back; to regain; to recover; to make up (for); to catch up on
delivery; handing over; turning over; extradition
mediation; agency; agent; mediator; middleman; go-between
to be doing; to be in the process of doing
to leap out (e.g. onto the stage); to spring out; to jump (e.g. into first place); to shoot (e.g. to the top); to come to the forefront