| A common enough story: so many of those dreamy, provincial child outcasts who become the somebodies of art and literature are first driven to mobilize their powers by an urgent necessity to be somebody else. |
| We find ourselves almost sighing over its passing, somehow sympathising with all that went on before a canny lawyer called Mahatma Gandhi turned all those millions of utterly impoverished nobodies into mobilisable somebodies. |
| With so few women in the profession, those somebodies were all men, which explains why Ms Blair has thrown her influence behind projects that support mentoring. |
| These people are political no-bodies who fancy themselves to be somebodies. |
| Now, it seems, in order to cease being politically led nonentities, councillors aspire to become politically led somebodies by virtue of paying themselves more and more. |
| The National Popular Vote plan would make them somebodies — and that, perhaps more than the high-minded stuff, is why N. P. V. has a pretty good chance of actually happening. |
