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is and possible
It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.
`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.
Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.
Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.
Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.
Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.
In the range and variety of characters who, in their literary lives, get along all right with life styles one never imagined possible, there is an implicit lesson in differentiation.
It is possible that the study of literature affects the conscience, the morality, the sensitivity to some code of `` right '' and `` wrong ''.
It is possible that the idea of enrichment of emotion is a fifth idea.
It is at least possible that the capacity to postpone gratification is developed as well as expressed in a continuous and guided exposure to great literature.
Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.
In looking back over the volumes, it is possible to find errors of interpretation, some of which were not so evident at the time of writing.
Says he, `` I may never imagine that in the struggle between personal and supra-personal responsibility it is possible to make a compromise between the ethical and the purposive in the shape of a relative ethic ; ;
Fortunately, it is possible to be somewhat more concrete and factual in diagnosing the involvement of values in education.
But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.
It is no longer possible to say that a sceptical attitude towards the received accounts of the invasions almost automatically produces a `` shore occupied by '' interpretation.

is and merely
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
This man's isolation is not merely momentary, it is permanent.
he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.
He catches criminals not merely because he is paid to do so ( frequently he does not receive a fee at all ), but because he enjoys his work, because he firmly believes that murder must be punished.
Sherlock Holmes is not merely an individualist ; ;
Since the difficulty of drawing the net is great, we will merely discuss it.
In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.
Such, he implies, is the case with his friend, who is not really a new convert himself but merely a favorer of new converts.
The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.
I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.
Berlin is merely being used by Moscow as a stalking horse.
It would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some of its ancillary beliefs and practices -- for instance, the doctrine that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put.
He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant.
But Albania is merely a symptom of a real malaise between China and Russia.
To think that we can merely relinquish our economic autonomy without giving up our political or legal autonomy is wishful thinking.
But the solution to this dilemma is not the incorporation of the United States into an Atlantic Community or `` economic empire '', but merely what libertarians like Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig Von Mises have been arguing for years: an end to government regulations, an end to government competition in industry, and a realistic depreciation allowance for industry.
`` Do you suppose his self-consciousness is characteristic of the new Negro professionals or merely of doctors in general ''??
This result suggests a very high temperature at the solid surface of the planet, although there is the possibility that the observed radiation may be a combination of both thermal and non-thermal components and that the observed spectrum is that of a black body merely by coincidence.
The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

is and edited
It is a fact of life that magazines are edited by groups: they have to be or they wouldn't be published at all.
In co-operation with the Alumni Association of Carleton College, an alumni magazine, The Voice Of The Carleton Alumni, is edited and mailed seven times a year by the College's Publications Office and the Alumni Office.
The Carletonian, the college newspaper, is edited by students and published by the College under the supervision of the Publications Board.
Most of Aristotle's work is probably not in its original form, since it was most likely edited by students and later lecturers.
It is somewhat unusual for directors to be credited co-editors, although the Coen Brothers and Robert Rodriguez have both directed and edited nearly all of their films.
* There is also mention of the Analytical Engine ( or the Clockwork Ouroboros as it is also known there ) in The Book of the War, a Faction Paradox anthology edited by Lawrence Miles.
She edited and published Lavoisier ’ s memoirs ( whether any English translations of those memoirs have survived is unknown as of today ) and hosted parties at which eminent scientists discussed ideas and problems related to chemistry.
The manuscript, which is being edited for publication by G. Maltsiniotis, later led to another of his monumental works, Les Dérivateurs.
The American Bar Association's official journal concerning administrative law is the Administrative Law Review, a quarterly publication that is managed and edited by students at the Washington College of Law.
Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).
The Beano is currently edited by Michael Stirling.
It is edited by Andrew Arato, Amy Allen, and Andreas Kalyvas.
Confucius is traditionally credited with having authored or edited many of the Chinese classic texts including all of the Five Classics, but modern scholars are cautious of attributing specific assertions to Confucius himself.
Even his version of Claudius ' Lyons tablet speech is edited to be devoid of the Emperor's personality.
His explanation was that everything is recorded, and if it is recorded, then it can be edited ( P-Orridge, 2003 ).
** Note: This was edited by Marker essentially, this film is a 27-minute postscript to Le Joli Mai assembled from leftover footage and organized around a new commentary ( Film Comment ).
The MGH is a vast series ( it runs to hundreds of volumes and is still publishing ) of edited primary source material essential for scholarly work on late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
It also eschews the styles of his older albums and instead is based around instrumentation and lyrical works, as opposed to the styles of other albums, such as Odelay and Midnite Vultures, which are heavier and more edited.
An April 2009 issue of the Sage journal Theory & Psychology ( edited by Desmond Painter, Athanasios Marvakis, and Leendert Mos ) is devoted to an examination of German critical psychology.
It is possible to build a computer-based video editor that spots problems caused when I frames are edited out while other frames need them.
Thanks to books such as The Letters of Daniel Defoe ( edited by G. H. Healey, Oxford 1955 ), which are readily available, far more is known about his activities than is usual with such agents.

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