It's about as good as you can expect a mayor to do under the current fiscal circumstances. He should get high marks on this.

You're in the subterranean world in this particular issue. So little of it is aboveboard and legal and monitored, nobody's counting anything. You're inevitably going to be in the realm of anecdote rather than data.

Samuel showed he can rise above the circumstances, contributing to the team's victory.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances