This subordinate clause from The Irish Independent gave me pause:

For those who can’t afford even that, there are the food queues. All across the country, people struggle desperately to hang onto their jobs, their homes, their lives. Next Tuesday, having already decided to deprive Cystic Fibrosis patients of life-prolonging treatment units, the Government will announce new ways to help us “share the pain”.

There’ll be a lot more of that in our future. If you look at the math on which the developed world is betting the future, government health systems will have huge incentives to develop ever greater institutional biases against “life-prolonging.”

[UPDATE: Whoops. Put me down for half an hour in the S&M* dungeon. An English teacher writes:

“Having already decided to deprive Cystic Fibrosis patients of life-prolonging treatment units” is not a subordinate clause; it doesn’t have a subject for the verb “decided.” It is in fact a participle phrase modifying the subject of the main clause, “the Government.”

*Subordination & Modification.]