Can a party, with its instincts and historical baggage, just do that?

Others have a fixed antipathy to marriage: the institution comes with historical baggage they would rather not have to carry into their life.

To be fair, at times it wasn't so much what the coach did as the sheer weight of the historical baggage that accompanied his appointment.

At times, these ghosts from the past have spooked some of the players charged with following their footsteps, the historical baggage weighing a little too heavily.

This was a game that had such a build-up - the short-term memory of losses, the longterm historical baggage - that the opportunity for three early points seemed too good to waste.