I hate to throw a damper, but if David was home, I think he'd be calling instead of Mrs Kentley.

Attention must also be focused on the recirculation of existing stocks throughout the region and appropriate control measures devised, including increased cooperation among Governments regionally, joint operations and harmonization of priorities.

Thirdly, I would like to stress our particular concerns about the situation in Africa, where illicit arms transfers and the recirculation of weapons from one conflict to another constitute a mounting problem.

And they'll stand before God and family and some guy her dad once did business with, and they'll vow that nothing, not abject poverty, not life threatening illness, not complete and utter misery will ever put the tiniest damper on their eternal love and devotion.

Although parsing the 2014 2015 oil price shock is not as straightforward as in the two previous episodes, the driving forces seem to be roughly evenly split between demand and supply factors. Certainly, a slowing China that is rebalancing toward domestic consumption has put a damper on all global commodity prices, with metal indices also falling sharply in 2015.