Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

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.

It was not merely that flies were crawling over his face but his narrowed eyelids did not blink when the flies crawled into his eye sockets.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.

`` This was not merely alleging errors, but was carried out by day-after-day allegations in memos, written charges of serious consequence.

Though merely clear glass, it was a distinctive trade mark for an aspiring actor who hoped to imprint himself upon the memories of producers.

J. T. Shotwell was appalled by such spurious history as that which attributed the fall of the Carolingian empire to the woolen trade, and he urged Adams to `` transform his essay into a real history, embodying not merely those facts which fit into his theory, but also the modifications and exceptions ''.

it was merely another part of his weakness.

He was merely clearing a way to what he had to do.

He worked standing, with his left hand in his pocket as though he were merely stopping for a moment, sketching with the surprised stare of one who was watching another person's hand.

It all seemed -- if one could have peeked in at him through one of his windows -- as though this broken-nosed man with the muscular arms and wrestler's neck was merely the caretaker trying his hand at the boss's work.

this was merely a ritual, to please all hands concerned.

The detective, commenting on Barco's behavior, felt that he merely belonged among the myriad citizens of our community who are mentally unhinged -- that he was a more or less harmless `` nut ''!!

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

This indicates that increase in specificity of Af after passing it through DEAE-cellulose was not merely due to dilution.

his search was merely for rules that might limit his freedom of action.

It was merely a rationalization and ordering of new institutions of popular government.

The Justice's elaborate examination of the legislative history of the provision in question suggests that Congress' purpose was merely to make unions suable.

A formulaic element need not be held meaningless merely because it was selected with little conscious reflection.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

And in the hunting land, this hunger was considered to be a noble thing.

But there was a contrast even more decisive than a hunger for fact between the Trial in Jerusalem and those in Moscow and New York.

And now she was feeling sick, both from concern about Stanley and hunger.

`` You bring only wickedness '', she said and it was not to a child any longer but to another woman who had come to skirt her lodge with the cunning hunger of a wild animal.

The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger was the first Millennium Development Goal, as set by 179 United Nations Member States in 2000.

No blood was shed this time ; Alaric relied on hunger as his most powerful weapon.

Nevertheless, food was still scarce, and Abd al-Rahman's army suffered from hunger.

In May 1984 Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonner, was detained and Sakharov began a hunger strike, demanding permission for his wife to travel to the United States for heart surgery.

The Western powers worst fear was that the poverty and hunger would drive the Germans to communism.

The campaign was taken so seriously by Gwynfor Evans, former president of Plaid Cymru, that he threatened the government with a hunger strike were it not to honour the plans.

Therefore, the only motivation for labour was either the possibility of great reward or fear of hunger.

By the late 1970s, melodrama was nearly finished as an overt genre, as the hunger for realism dominated film in groundbreaking movies like Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.

The hardest phase was the crossing of the Andes cordillera: at almost 4, 000 meters of altitude, the cold, hunger and tiredness meant the death of various Spaniards and natives, but mainly slaves who were not accustomed to such rigorous climate.

Both groups exhibited behavior indicating that their hunger was satisfied, but rats in the second group ( which were fed saccharine solution ) died from malnutrition.

Following the World Food Summit, the Alliance was initially created in 2002 as the ‘ International Alliance Against Hunger ( IAAH )’ to strengthen and coordinate national efforts in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.

Several years of bad harvests and an inadequate transportation system had caused rising food prices, hunger, and malnutrition ; the country was further destabilized by the lower classes ' increased feeling that the royal court was isolated from, and indifferent to, their hardships.

Theirs was also a story of hunger largely instigated by the Portuguese settlers moving into the neighbourhoods of uLomwe.

The hunger strike was concluded in early January 2004 when an Australian medical team agreed to visit the island.

Exhausted by cold, hunger and fatigue, he was eventually discovered by a peasant carrying a charcoal burner, but his exposure to the elements meant he soon contracted a dangerously high fever.

The Abbé had even observed eight days of a hunger strike from May 26, 1984 to June 3 in the Cathedral of Turin to protest the conditions suffered by " Brigadists " in Italian prisons and the imprisonment without trial of Vanni Mulinari, who was recognized as innocent some time afterwards.

Godunov's revenge on the Romanovs was terrible: all the family and its relatives were deported to remote corners of the Russian North and Ural, where most of them died of hunger or in chains.

Filmed on location in Mexico, Peckinpah's epic work was inspired by his hunger to return to films, the violence seen in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, America's growing frustration with the Vietnam War, and what he perceived to be the utter lack of reality seen in Westerns up to that time.

The police claimed his death was the result of an extended hunger strike, but an autopsy revealed multiple bruises and abrasions and that he ultimately succumbed to a brain hemorrhage from the massive injuries to the head, which many saw as strong evidence that he had been brutally clubbed by his captors.