So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

Suddenly it seemed to him insane that they might hope to locate Gyp Carmer so casually, even were he to prove the thief.

And Keith's record of kills made him a man to listen to -- a man paradoxically, who might even survive.

If you'd get out of your back yard once in a while you might even get her your ownself ''.

Others mentioned that I might have had to ask friends or even strangers for help and that to be stranded in a foreign country without sufficient funds did not contribute to international understanding.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.

Linked to Holmes even in death, Moriarty represents the alter-ego of the great detective, the image of what our hero might have become were he not a public servant.

The liberal-conservative division, we might observe in passing, is not of itself directly involved in a private interest conflict nor even in struggle between ruling groups.

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

Unspeakable tortures or even execution might well be their fate.

Something indirect, mixed, reconciling, tensional might well be the stratagem, the devious technique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about love and anger and even in something like `` expressions '' of these emotions, without aiming at their incitement or even uttering anything that essentially involves their incitement ''.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.

A nuclear pacifier of these dimensions -- roughly some six and a half times bigger than anything the United States has triggered experimentally -- would certainly produce a bigger bang, and, just for kicks, Khrushchev might use it to propel the seminar of the house of delegates from St. Louis to the moon, where there wouldn't even be any beer to drink.

Inmates might even demand the 34-hour week, all holidays off and fringe benefits including state contributions toward lawyers' fees.

The Macmillan government might be willing to let him go, but he has been dead seventy-eight years and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable.

there might even be two or more candidates for voters to choose from.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

I suppose we might classify Billy Graham as an old liberal.

If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia.

Since the company under review is supplying what we are here regarding as only one kind of service, we might suppose that the problem of total cost apportionment would be very simple ; ;

Thus, for example, on the basis of superficial similarities one might suppose that the Latin verb habere and German haben, both meaning ' to have ', were cognates.

A response might suppose each individual is contingent but the infinite chain as a whole is not ; or the whole infinite causal chain to be its own cause.

Historians suppose that Bolesław's absence from the document might be explained by an old Slavic custom whereby children received their inheritance as soon as they reached the age of majority.

For example, suppose someone might believe that there is intelligent life on Mars, and base this belief on a further belief, that there is a feature on the surface of Mars that looks like a face, and that this face could only have been made by intelligent life.

We may reasonably suppose, that, when he rose to notice, he did not want the counsels and admonitions of scholars and critics, and that he at last deliberately persisted in a practice, which he might have begun by chance.

We might suppose we have a better conception of what minds are, because we are all ( the private language argument notwithstanding ) intimately acquainted with our own minds.

In Chapter 6 of Book IV von Guericke writes: " It seems reasonable to suppose that if the Earth has a fitting and appropriate attractive potency it will also have a potency of repelling things that might be dangerous or disagreeable to it.

Edward Courtney notes that the prominence of Egypt in the ancient Greek novels might make it plausible for Petronius to have set an episode there, but expresses some doubt about the oracle's relevance to Encolpius ' travels, " since we have no reason to suppose that Encolpius reached the Danube or the far north, and we cannot suggest any reason why he should have.

It might be tempting to suppose a matrix with orthogonal ( not orthonormal ) columns would be called an orthogonal matrix, but such matrices have no special interest and no special name ; they only satisfy M < sup > T </ sup > M = D, with D a diagonal matrix.

He conceived that the latter might be varieties, but that if ' they are really different species, then " we must suppose that a new creation must have taken place.

One might suppose Rica to be another name for Gorlois ( though Welsh translations of Geoffrey name him Gwrlais ), but we also have in Geoffrey's account a Gormant the Irish who is king of Ireland ( based on the villain of the French chançon de geste called Gormant et Isenbart ) and this Gormant might be hiding here also as Gormant ap Rica, this being a possible corruption of Gormant Ireland.

Later commentators tend to suppose that this god might be identical with Chemosh who is called the god of Moab in other biblical texts, and sometimes speculate that the cult of Ba ‘ al Pe ‘ or was very licentious.

People would say, I suppose, that it might account for my interest in a wide range of arcane bits of information.

This, however, is mere conjecture ; and perhaps it may be fairer to suppose that the drawings exhibited so much independence of manner that Titian judged that young Jacopo, although he might become a painter, would never be properly a pupil.

Of course you might call them ' attitudes ', but I should not like that because it is a psychological term, and although all the instances in our experience are psychological, there is no reason to suppose that all the verbs I am talking of are psychological.

) Therefore one might suppose that this limit is an arbitrary limit imposed by our cognition rather than necessarily being a physical limit.

One is not allowed, under Advertising Standards law, to describe a fabric containing both polyester and cotton as " cotton ", so one might suppose a mixed fabric that merely contains some merino wool should not be described as " merino ".

) has led van Zeist to suppose that it might not have been a weed, but grown as a crop.

One might suppose so ( and some philosophers have ; see below ) since " the present King of France " certainly does fail to refer.

A definite description like " the present King of France ", he suggested, isn't a referring expression, as we might naively suppose, but rather an " incomplete symbol " that introduces quantificational structure into sentences in which it occurs.