Ballast: Weight added to a boat to enhance stability. âThe J/24 has 950 pounds of lead ballast.â. Berth: A sleeping area on a boat. Also, a place where a boat is tied up. âWe slept in the forward berth while John and Amy slept in the quarter berthâ or âWe keep our boat in a berth at McDoodleâs Marina.â.
Lord Acton writes to Bishop Creighton that the same moral standards should be applied to all men, political and religious leaders included, especially since âPower tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutelyâ (1887) From: Acton-Creighton Correspondence (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)
And this is the thing that gets her through. And the thing thatâs absolutely devastating to her finally is that sheâs being punished by God for killing her husband,â she says. âAnd of course, then thereâs moral corruption of the president [Tony Goldwyn, who Burton says sheâs known since they were in their early 20s].