While the PAC proved to have little lasting organizational impact ( the group was suppressed a mere 11 months after its founding ), its policy of Africanism and acceptance of Maoism informed the black student uprisings of the mid and late 1970s which were led by the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania ( South Africa ) and Steve Biko.

At that election the SLP had nominated a mere three candidates ( including Sillars who was attempting to hold on to his South Ayrshire seat ).

It finally opened on 24 June 1981, providing a permanent link between North and South ( and cutting the journey from Grimsby to Beverley to a mere 30 or so miles ), but did not secure Humberside's future.

Before, British citizens needed a mere two years in the country to qualify as South Africans ; now, however, a British alien was just like any other alien: he or she would have to register and linger in South Africa for five years to become a citizen of the country.

While South Mountain dwindles to mere hills between Gettysburg and Harrisburg, the band of ancient rocks that forms the core of the Blue Ridge continues northeast through the New Jersey and Hudson River highlands, eventually reaching The Berkshires of Massachusetts and the Green Mountains of Vermont.

# " Within the Sotadic Zone the Vice is popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the North and South of the limits here defined practise it only sporadically amid the opprobrium of their fellows who, as a rule, are physically incapable of performing the operation and look upon it with the liveliest disgust.

In the 1979 general election, Fountaine stood as National Front candidate in the Norwich South constituency, polling a mere 264 votes ( 0. 7 %).

The season contained a number of memorable performances by Bracken including a phenomenal spell of 7 / 4 off 7 overs to help dismiss South Australia for a mere 29 runs at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 2 December 2004.

The emergence of the South African-born Bruce Grobbelaar put Clemence under threat for his place for the first time in eleven years ( during which period he played in more than 650 matches and missed a mere six ) and he decided to leave Liverpool by joining Tottenham Hotspur for a fee of £ 300, 000.

The ban on South Africa restricted his Test career to a mere seven appearances, all of them against Australia, between 1967 and 1970.

Many reviewers said the mere title demonstrated the crudeness and originality of South Park, then still a relatively new show.

He is huge and weighs a little over, while Jesus weighs a mere, and the citizens of South Park begin changing their bets.

South Florida's ascension into the top 25 from entry into I-A / FCS is the fastest in NCAA history, surpassing Boise State's rise by a mere seven weeks.

In June 1985 Press Broadcasting Company, a division of the Asbury Park Press, purchased the station for a mere $ 3. 3 million and changed the call letters to WSJT, for South Jersey Television.

Under the South African interpretation, however, prior to formal acceptance of the benefit, the third-party beneficiary only has a spes, or expectation ; in other words, he does not have the right to accept, but rather a mere competency.

The first Show staged by South Australia's Agricultural Society ( later called The Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society ) was held in the yard of Fordham's Hotel, in Grenfell Street, Adelaide, on 8 December 1840, a mere 4 years after South Australia's settlement in 1836.

Prior to this, the monastery would be a mere priory, headed by a prior who acts as superior but without the same degree of legal authority that an abbot has.

However, it has been shown that some animals, like chimpanzees, were able to generate creative plans of action to achieve their goals, and thus would seem to have a causal insight which transcends mere custom.

The question of whether Beowulf was passed down through oral tradition prior to its present manuscript form has been the subject of much debate, and involves more than the mere matter of how it was composed.

Without firing a shot, by the mere display of military force, he has achieved a dominating position in Europe which Germany failed to win after four years of war.

Alpha Centauri, one of the closest stars to the Sun, has a high proper motion ; it will be a mere half-degree from Beta Centauri in approximately 4000 years.

Over the last 30 years, however, the miaphysite position has been accepted as a mere restatement of orthodox belief by Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Eastern Orthodox Church and by Pope John Paul II of the Roman Catholic Church.

It has been noted that this was a key part of the process of the reduction of the Indian economy from sophisticated textile production to a mere supplier of raw materials which occurred under colonial rule, a process described by Nehru and more recent scholars as " de-industrialization.

It has been found that training focused towards visual language and orthographic issues yields longer-lasting gains than mere oral phonological training.

Despite this legal status, the ELDR party has yet to achieve significant grassroots involvement and retains much of the character of a mere confederation of national political parties.

And after that a Barth can come along and attack the thing itself, which in his circle has indeed been degraded to a mere phrase.

Computing hardware has become a platform for uses other than mere computation, such as process automation, electronic communications, equipment control, entertainment, education, etc.

# " Personality " Argument: this argument is based on a quote from Hegel: " Every man has the right to turn his will upon a thing or make the thing an object of his will, that is to say, to set aside the mere thing and recreate it as his own ".

Certain scholars and political leaders feel that these modern developments endanger nation states by taking power away from state governments and ceding it to international bodies such as the U. N. and the World Bank, argue that international law has evolved to a point where it exists separately from the mere consent of states, and discern a legislative and judicial process to international law that parallels such processes within domestic law.

Science fiction writer Larry Niven has tongue-in-cheek theorized that, based on such abundance, Krypton was actually a Dyson sphere with a surface hundreds of times that of a mere planet.

Meritocracy has also been criticized by egalitarians as a mere myth which serves only to justify the status quo, with its proponents only giving lip service to equality.

Comparatively little time passes in the Marvel Universe compared to the real world, owing to the serial nature of storytelling, with the stories of certain issues picking up mere seconds after the conclusion of the previous one, while a whole month has passed by in " real time ".

For instance, G. E. M. Anscombe worries that " ought " has become a " a word of mere mesmeric force ".

In 1885 Richard Hodgson's report on Theosophical Phenomena expressed the opinion that the founder of the Theosophical Society, Helena Petrova Blavatsky, was " neither the mouthpiece of hidden seers, nor ... a mere vulgar adventuress ; we think she has achieved title to permanent remembrance as one of the most accomplished, ingenious and interesting imposters in history ".

A civilisation with technology that has advanced a mere century beyond ours might be capable of biological and cybernetic projects way beyond what we can envision today.

There has been speculation over how much of their live gigs are pre-recorded, although they insist ( on their official website FAQ ) that they have a mere outline of track order and the rest is mixed live.

This community has decided to work on something much more significant than a " mere Ultima clone ,"

As a foodstuff of great historical and contemporary importance, in many cultures in the West and Near and Middle East bread has a significance beyond mere nutrition.

Feldman ( 1999 ) has shown that the second KKK was not a mere hate group ; it showed a genuine desire for political and social reform.

He urged a would-be author “ to search for that simplicity of manners, and innocence of behavior, which has been often known among mere savages ; ere they were corrupted by our commerce ” ( Advice to an Author, Part III. iii ).

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.

The portrayal of the West-Saxon resistance to the Vikings by Asser and the chronicler as a Christian holy war was more than mere rhetoric or ' propaganda '.

Alan Cameron, however, argues that it should be interpreted as referring to Plato, and that when Proclus writes that " we must bear in mind concerning this whole feat of the Athenians, that it is neither a mere myth nor unadorned history, although some take it as history and others as myth ", he is treating " Crantor's view as mere personal opinion, nothing more ; in fact he first quotes and then dismisses it as representing one of the two unacceptable extremes ".

scholasticism in a more systematic direction He also appears to be the first theologian to use more than by mere chance of haphazardly concepts drawn from the Metaphysics of Aristole.

These incidents involve far more than a mere claim to the Messiahship ; taken in their setting, they constitute a claim to be the Son of God.

Fighting from the back of a horse was much more difficult than mere riding.

The Calvinist view of the Sacrament sees a " real presence " of Christ in the supper ; not the physical presence of the Catholic and Lutheran views, but more than the mere memorialism of the Zwinglians and their successors.

According to the IHA, the tombs are more than a mere repository for historical artifacts ; they are sacred religious sites.

For that purpose, far more than a mere dictionary knowledge of Sanskrit was required.

The resemblances which he detected between Sanskrit and the Western cognate tongues existed in the syntax, the combination of words in the sentence and the various devices which only actual reading of the literature could disclose, far more than in the mere vocabulary.

While Lovecraft never considered his pantheon of alien gods more than a mere plot device, Derleth created an entire cosmology, complete with a war between the good Elder Gods and the evil Outer Gods, such as Cthulhu and his ilk ).

These were more than mere modest achievements for a mid-size city with a limited appeal to fans across the nation.

" Recent acts " is legally established to require more than a mere recitation of past events.

However, as the jizya was not imposed by Jahangir, there might have been more behind this policy of toleration than mere economic reasoning.

The mere fact that Whitey would come all the way out there to talk to us was more than enough to convince me that St. Louis was the place I wanted to be.

His early juveniles were very much ahead of their time both in their explicit rejection of racism and in their inclusion of non-white protagonists — in the context of science fiction before the 1960s, the mere existence of non-white characters was a remarkable novelty, with green occurring more often than brown.

Yet even in these ballads Robin is more than a mere simpleton: on the contrary, he often acts with great shrewdness.