The sweepstakes letter included with the game implies that the events of earlier games and even the Great Diffusion, to a degree, had come to be regarded as mere mythology by this time, and touts exploration of recently discovered ruins of the Great Underground Empire as one of the holiday attractions.

Although the sitter may be called upon to intervene during a difficult situation, bad trip, or medical crisis, the mere presence of a caring sitter is often enough to keep a user comfortable and even enable deeper exploration of the drug's effects.

The results go beyond mere portraiture or narcissism, however ; rather, she is able to keep a distance from her subjects in the process of exploration of human body, its limitations, desires, and different forms.

Some aspect of the referent must be invoked and identified, in order for the tacit association to be made ; the allusion is indirect in part because " it depends on something more than mere substitution of a referent " The allusion depends as well on the author's intent ; an industrious reader may search out parallels to a figure of speech or a passage, of which the author under examination was unaware, and offer them as unconscious allusions — coincidences that a critic might not find illuminating.

Although it's quite unsafe to do so, such a bow can be drawn pointed at the ground, and the mere weight of the bow will keep it drawn even if the grip is released and the bow is hung by the string ( although extreme caution must be exercised to avoid accidentally disturbing the bow out of the let-off zone before establishing a firm grip on the string and the foregrip ).

It stresses the principle of " annihilation " of the enemy in depth ( contrasted with mere defeat of the enemy leading to retirement or retreat ), and sees military aviation, at least on the tactical and operational levels, as being unified with ground forces, either as organic components of large formations or as separate units tightly integrated into ground-force command structure, unlike the doctrine of the West, which emphasizes separate " air forces ".

Most writers on international law have regarded this method of preventing such acts of hostility as unjustifiable, on the ground that the persons taken as hostages are not the persons responsible for the act ; that, as by the usage of war hostages are to be treated strictly as prisoners of war, such an exposure to danger is transgressing the rights of a belligerent ; and as useless, for the mere temporary removal of important citizens till the end of a war cannot be a deterrent unless their mere removal deprives the combatants of persons necessary to the continuance of the acts aimed at ( see W. E. Hall, International Law, 1904, pp. 418, 475 ).

We thus after all fall back on reflection as our ground for their universal application ; mere spontaneity of apprehension is futile ; their universality is grounded in their necessity, not their necessity in their universality.

The peculiar service which was rendered at this juncture by the ' Cambridge School ' was that, instead of opposing a mere dogmatic opposition to the Tübingen critics, they met them frankly on their own ground ; and instead of arguing that their conclusions ought not to be and could not be true, they simply proved that their facts and their premises were wrong.

The law that says that a stone falls when dropped is not only a mere observable fact: it is rightful, good and just that stones fall to the ground when dropped.

Three-quarters of this long courting season is mere territorial competition between neighbouring cocks or cocks on the same courting ground.

Like other lapwings and plovers, they are ground birds and their nest is a mere collection of tiny pebbles within which their well camouflaged eggs are laid.

If successful, the attacking force would be a mere five miles ( 8 km ) from the Narrows and in command of the high ground thereby denying the passage of reinforcements to Helles.

Metrocentre's construction was financed by the Church Commissioners of England, and was masterminded by Sir John Hall's company, Cameron Hall Developments, the ground upon which it is built was purchased for a mere £ 100, 000 in the early ' 70s.

And not only this, but, fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost, or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct: the dogma becoming a mere formal profession, inefficacious for good, but cumbering the ground, and preventing the growth of any real and heartfelt conviction, from reason or personal experience.

The scrape must be deep enough that eggs are protected from the convective cooling caused by cold winds, but shallow enough that they and the parent bird are not too exposed to the cooling influences of ground temperatures, particularly where the permafrost layer rises to mere centimetres below the nest.

The ground floor resembles a mere expansion of the vaulted portego-a hall which links the canal entrance to the land entrance at the rear.

Kinnick said, " When the members of any nation have come to regard their country as nothing more than the plot of ground on which they reside, and their government as a mere organization for providing police or contracting treaties ; when they have ceased to entertain any warmer feelings for one another than those which interest or personal friendship or a mere general philanthropy may produce, the moral dissolution of that nation is at hand.

Butler begins by questioning the notion that " the body " itself is a natural entity that " admits no genealogy ," a usual given without explanation: " How are the contours of the body clearly marked as the taken-for-granted ground or surface upon which gender signification are inscribed, a mere facticity devoid of value, prior to significance?

Lachit updated Chakradhwaj Singha about this proposal, who rejected the offer on the ground that it was beneath his dignity to duel a mere servant " who has no umbrella over his head.

Scoulton is known for its artificial and heavily-wooded lake or " mere ", which was the product of extensive flint quarrying and a breeding ground of the great black-headed gull.

The top of the mere was ground to a sharp edge, extending down both sides of the weapon.

The Dallas defense allowed only 118 yards, a mere 22 on the ground, and sacked Jaworski 5 times.

The Court distinguished this case from lawsuits where an individual seeks relief based on mere taxpayer standing-an insufficient ground for standing to sue.

The recreation ground provides an off road field, where cricket, football and mere dog walking take place.

In his ruling Justice Longe averred among other things that ,"... the Attorney general did not oppose the objection raised by counsel to the ‘ accused ’ persons, Chief Rotimi Williams, on the ground that the information was filed by private prosecutor ( Chief Gani Fawehinmi ) when the information had not been completed and especially when the ‘ INFORMATION IMPLICATED ONE OF THE PROSECUTION WITNESSES ’( Kayode Soyinka )... the proof of evidence before the Court was mere HEARSAY ….

In Cuba, by contrast, free blacks made up only 15 % in 1827 ; and in the French colony of Saint-Domingue ( present-day Haiti ) it was a mere 5 % in 1789.

He saw Cibola only from a distance, and his description of it as equal in size to Mexico City was probably exact ; but he embodied much mere hearsay in his report, Descubrimiento de las siete ciudades, which led Francisco Vázquez de Coronado to make his famous expedition next year to Zuni Pueblo, in present-day New Mexico, of which Fray Marcos was the guide ; and the realities proved a great disappointment.

The 400 Twin application offers a clamp load of a mere 23 kN.

Heinlein acknowledged that such a long life span should not be expected as a result of a mere three generations of selective breeding, but offers no alternative explanation except by having a character declare, " A mutation, of course — which simply says that we don't know ".

He rejected offers from Louis XVIII, who had considered the Consulate to be a mere transition towards the restoration of the king.

For example, though kinetic bombardment potentially offers the ability to strike any target anywhere in the world within minutes, both the United States and Russia, possibly the only nations with the resources and facilities necessary to implement such a system, have sufficiently long-range supersonic bombers that the same target could already be deployed in a matter of hours at a mere fraction of the cost.

But Thornton, in fact, reconsiders and eventually offers Higgins a job ; in the final chapter, she does not seem to realize that a " simple proposition " to bail out the factory ( mere business arrangement ), could hurt the pride of Thornton or be seen as shocking from a " lady.

The design is self-conscious, overcharged with rich, artificially " natural " detail in physically improbable juxtapositions of jarring scale changes, overwhelming as a mere frame: Mannerist.

To achieve this goal he was prepared to sacrifice much: the loss of rich Ptolemaic lands, most of his wealth and even, according to Cicero, the very dignity on which the mystique of kingship rested when he appeared before the Roman people as a mere supplicant .”

Certain Decembrists, including the Volkonskys, the Murav ’ yovs, and the Trubetskoys, were rich, but the majority of exiles had no money, and were forced to live off a mere fifteen desyatins of land, the allotment granted to each settler.

( The biography of Marcus Aurelius's colleague Lucius Verus, which Mommsen thought ' secondary ', is however rich in apparently reliable information and has been vindicated by Syme as belonging to the ' primary ' series ) The ' secondary ' lives allowed the author to exercise free invention untrammelled by mere facts, and as the work proceeds these flights of fancy become ever more elaborate, climaxing in such virtuoso feats as the account of the ' Thirty Tyrants ' said to have risen as usurpers under Gallienus.

* My love was my witness in recording these earnest, simple lives, these visions of slums clothed in dignity, never to me mere slums but the habitations of a people who were rich in spirit and effort.

Hence the mere rich, as opposed to the wealthy aristocracy, could make a large donation to the Serene Republic, thus purchasing patents of nobility and having their names inscribed in the Libro d ' Oro ( the " Golden Book ").

He brought to my mind glimpses of the great past when dancing was one of the most treasured arts in India and not as today, a mere device of whetting up the jaded appetite of the idle rich.

Now that Truman Capote has pronounced that such work may achieve the stature of ' art ,' perhaps it is possible for this collection to be recognized as it should be: not as a better or worse example of what some people call ' mere journalism ,' but as a rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country.