The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

Now in the mere fact of the beginning of such displacement we have prima-facie evidence of the ontological weakness of the fading form.

Perhaps the mere fact that by plucking on the nerves nature can awaken in the most ordinary of us, temporarily anyway, the sleeping poet, and in poets can discover their immortality, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable phenomena to which we can attest??

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.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

Certainly, the mere fact of failing to demonstrate them in one or another species does not conclusively deny their existence in that species.

Swift however, Landa argues, is not merely criticizing economic maxims but also addressing the fact that England was denying Irish citizens their natural rights and dehumanizing them by viewing them as a mere commodity.

Scholars are unsure how much of Aristophanes ' portrayal is fact and how much mere comic invention.

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 ".

If so, the mere fact that an incidental result ( even if it was a desired consequence ) was that a shareholder lost his majority, or a takeover bid was defeated, this would not itself make the share issue improper.

Harald Motzki said: " The mere fact that ahadith and asanid were forged must not lead us to conclude that all of them are fictitious or that the genuine and the spurious cannot be distinguished with some degree of certainty.

Scientific investigation he insists upon as an absolute necessity for the true comprehension of religion, despite the fact that his contemporaries regarded all the hours which he was accustomed to spend with his father-in-law, Samuel ibn Tibbon, in mathematical and philosophic study as mere waste of time.

Judges at the House of Lords secured their position by mere virtue of the fact that their fathers were hereditary peers and so individuals would automatically inherit seats in the upper house rather than securing their position through merit.

In most circumstances the mere fact that parties are willing to mediate means that they are ready to " move " their position.

This observation stems in part from Nietzsche's perspectivism, or his notion that " knowledge " is always by someone of some thing: it is always bound by perspective, and it is never mere fact.

Finally, the mere fact that so many copies of Windows were shipping to users ( whom OS / 2 advocates viewed as uncritical and uninformed ), coupled with the fact that so many in the industry had so much riding on the success of OS / 2, created conditions ripe for so many trying to take matters into their own hands.

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.

" A complete system of outcomes for a subject area normally includes everything from mere recitation of fact (" Students will name three tragedies written by Shakespeare ") to complex analysis and interpretation (" Student will analyze the social context of a Shakespearean tragedy in an essay ").

This catalyst is used as a great representation due to the mere fact of the planned ambush and destruction of " symbols of globalization ", insinuating the World Trade Centers.

In regard to fine-tuning, Kenneth Himma writes: " The mere fact that it is enormously improbable that an event occurred ... by itself, gives us no reason to think that it occurred by design … As intuitively tempting as it may be ...” Himma attributes the “ Argument from Suspicious Improbabilities ”, a formalization of “ the fine-tuning intuition ” to George N. Schlesinger: To understand Schlesinger ’ s argument, consider your reaction to two different events.

The mere fact, if it is a fact, that we do not understand eternal existence, may not, by itself, be enough to show that we do not know what we are talking about when we say that God exists.

Her friend, Acerronia Polla, was attacked by oarsmen while still in the water, and was either bludgeoned to death or drowned, since she was exclaiming that she was Agrippina, with the intention of being saved, unfortunately she did not know that this was an attempt of Agrippina's life, not a mere accident.

He dismisses Nora's agonized choice made against her conscience for the sake of his health and her years of secret efforts to free them from the ensuing obligations and danger of loss of reputation, while preserving his peace of mind, as a mere mistake that she made owing to her foolishness, one of her most endearing feminine traits.

The goddess Dione ( in her name simply the " Goddess ") is sometimes taken by later mythographers as a mere feminine form of Zeus ( see entry Dodona ): if this were so, she would not have assembled here.

One biographer said, " The dictionary was no mere reference book to her ; she read it as a priest his breviary – over and over, page by page, with utter absorption.

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 ".

Hope aged amazingly fast, and, mere months after being drifted down a river by her mother, she appeared to be about 9 years old.

In England, she dismisses Uncle Andrew as a mere dabbler in magic.

" The 19th century biographer Agnes Strickland condemned Anne's actions to regain custody of Prince Henry as irresponsible: " It must lower the character of Anne of Denmark in the eyes of everyone, both as a woman and queen, that she ... preferred to indulge the mere instincts of maternity at the risk of involving her husband, her infant, and their kingdom, in the strife and misery of unnatural warfare.

Jiang Qing was especially paranoid of Deng's influence on national affairs, whereas she considered Hua Guofeng a mere nuisance.

The eleven year old Queen Mary I sent her congratulations to " la Royne, ma mere " from the Château de Meudon at Easter, where she was staying with her grandmother and her uncle, the Cardinal of Lorraine.

For her own part, Margaret's family were far more powerful and secure than they had been in 1454: her father had been killed at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460, but her brother was now Edward IV, opposed ineffectively only by Margaret of Anjou and her son, Edward of Westminster ; this made Margaret a far more valuable bride than she had been as the mere daughter of a Duke.

The mere sight of the Mongol fills the princess with fear, but when Ahmed appears ( disguised in stolen garments as a suitor ), she is delighted.

At least one line in the C. S. Lewis book The Last Battle implies that Lewis learned of Narnia's events-and thus wrote the Narnia books-after the Railway Accident in 1949, when Susan told him the stories in the belief that she was relating mere childhood make-believe.

She's leaving because she believes she has a better chance of finding a husband in America ; wealthy Italian men are not interested in mere secretaries, and the men who are interested are too poor.

The first collection, Verma emrin tim ( Call me by my name ), containing 42 verses, was published in Pristina in 1973 when she was a mere twenty-four years old.

Although she was very much active as a Queen in regards to her social projects and in politics, she was hardly ever seen at mere social occasions, such as balls and similar events: when she attended the Amaranter Ball in 1885, the occasion was so rare that it caused general amazement.

Six months later, a mere four days after her return to Vienna, she again experienced coughing fits and fever.

One biographer said, " The dictionary was no mere reference book to her ; she read it as a priest his breviary – over and over, page by page, with utter absorption.

More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declinedhe became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.

By the end of the Third Age, only mere fragments of the once-grand Elven civilization survived in Middle-earth.

In 719, he was officially raised on the shield as king of all the Franks, but he survived but a year and his successors were mere rois fainéants.

As noted above, his disembodied head has survived for millennia with, presumably, no source of alcohol, so it may be that, when a mere head, Bender neither requires alcohol nor suffers from its absence.

Whitlam survived the challenge, but only just: his winning margin was a mere five votes.

The mere fact that a theory has survived the most rigorous empirical tests available does not, in the calculus of probability, predict its ability to survive future testing.

On 8 June 1958 the no-confidence motion was put to a vote in Parliament but the government of U Nu survived the motion by a mere 8 votes because the leftist NUF voted with the government.

Not only credited with the development of magic in myriad forms ( a mere handful survived into the present, but none are fully intact ), the Old Ones also gave rise to an untold number of races ( only the elf, Titan, and changeling have endured ), alongside a legion of slaves from other dimensions.

Once the northern / southern political issues were settled at the beginning of the Civil War, the village rapidly declined, and it survived as a mere ghost of itself for the next ninety years.