The path led straight across the clearing into another forest, lying upon the verge of which I saw a bit of white. It appeared to stand out in marked contrast and incongruity to all its surroundings, and when I stopped to examine it, I found that it was a small strip of muslin--part of the hem of a garment.

(intransitive,idiomatic) To be extraordinary and different or to have features and qualities which make someone or something special.

It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.Sankey Declaration, which is an attempted defmition of fundamental human rights, of antitotalitarian tendency. Except that he is now especially concerned with federal world control of air power, it is the same gospel as he has been preaching almost without interruption for the past forty years, always with an air of angry surprise at the human beings who can fail to grasp anything so obvious.

In this passage, Orwell is wrong on virtually every score. His acknowledgement that Wells was then interested in the Sankey Declaration of Rights as an addendum to his world-state proposals is itself proof against Orwell's assertion that Wells has been repeating the same thing for forty years. By marginalising the Sankey Declaration in this way, Orwell downplays its significance in Wells's formula. Wells's 'Rights