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.

The mere fact that she survived and her reign endured suggests she had significant political skills.

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.

First, as a research reactor, it is much smaller than the more common electricity-producing reactors most people are familiar with — the reactor vessel measures across and high, with the core a mere tall and 50 inches across, and it does not generate electricity.

Hanlan, who was only 5 feet 8¾ inches tall, weighed a mere 150 pounds in most of his races, yet his powerful stroke enabled him to beat larger, stronger men.

Standing a mere 5 feet 7 inches tall, Webb became the shortest player ever to win the contest, a distinction that he still holds.

Her skeletal figure led to accusations, because she is tall 188 cm ( 6 ' 2 ") and at the time her weight was a mere 48 kg ( 105 lbs ) and her BMI = 13. 6 – so her first nickname was " the locust model ".

* The superhero / trickster figure of Uncle Sam in Robert Coover's The Public Burning ( 1977, New York, Grove Books ) is described in the following terms ( p. 7 ): " American Autolycus, they called him in the Gospels, referring to his cunning powers of conjuration, transmutation, and magical consumption ( he can play the shell game, not with a mere pea, but with whole tin mines, forests, oil fields, mountain ranges, and just before Thanksgiving this past year made an entire island disappear!

Interestingly, in Bergman's original radio play sometimes translated as A Painting on Wood, the figure of Death in a Dance of Death is represented not by an actor, but by silence, " mere nothingness, mere absence ... terrifying ... the void.

But modern egyptologists question Khufu's role as a still personally adored royal ancestor, they think it more likely that Khufu was already seen as a mere symbolic foundation figure for the history of the Isis-temple.

She was not, as the BBC seemed officially to proclaim, a mere figure of fun.

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.

By December 2009, that figure had fallen to a mere 1, 289.

In the United Kingdom, there were nearly 20, 000 examples still registered in 1994, but by 2002 that figure had fallen below 1, 000 and as of 2011 there are now a mere 136 still registered, 95 of them SORN and a mere 41 still in working order.

However, he rejected the idea that the mere public interest of the subject should outweigh any consideration of Gertz's status as a private or public figure.

His tenure as the number one figure in Shanghai lasted a mere five months, when on 24 March 2007, he was replaced by Xi Jinping, the Party Chief for the nearby province of Zhejiang, as the next Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee.

In mere script it is no more than an admirable example of a noble style, and the figure drawing of its illustrations, though probably based on classical models, has more than a touch of naïveté.

Hofrath Heuschrecke ( i. e. State-Councillor Grasshopper ) is a loose, zigzag figure, a blind admirer of Teufelsdroeckh's, an incarnation of distraction distracted, and the only one who advises the editor and encourages him in his work ; a victim to timidity and preyed on by an uncomfortable sense of mere physical cold, such as the majority of the state-counsellors of the day were.

Bahre Zewde notes, however, that Makonnen " was a mere ceremonial figure, given more to intellectual pursuits than to political machinations.

At the time perceptions were very different, with Reynolds certainly the dominant figure, and Gainsborough very highly reputed, but Stubbs, as a mere animal painter, seen as far less significant a figure than many other painters now relatively little-known.

When he appears, it is as a figure so immense as to make a supernova a mere gleam in his eyes and he takes a whole page to say YES.

Unlike his predecessor, he would become a mere transitional figure in Danish architecture, dying just four years after his arrival in the country without leaving any notable buildings of his own design.

Her first serious exhibition was at Ann Lewis's Gallery A in Paddington, Sydney, in 1974, when Gascoigne was 57 ; it was an instant success, and a mere four years later she had become a major figure in the Australian art world, with a survey at the National Gallery of Victoria.

The figure given for the United Kingdom during World War 2 was a mere 100, 000 out of a population of some 50 million ... around 0. 2 percent of the total.

The population was listed at 121 residents in 1905 and remained at or near that figure until the 1950's, when the community's last reported population was a mere thirty residents in 1956.

At the time of closing, its audited circulation figure was a mere 54, 069 Its last issue, dated August 2009, was published on June 8, 2009.

In Christ and Caesar, The Story of Civilization, he argued: " Despite the prejudices and theological preconceptions of the evangelists, they record many incidents that mere inventors would have concealed — the competition of the apostles for high places in the Kingdom, their flight after Jesus ' arrest, Peter's denial, the failure of Christ to work miracles in Galilee, the references of some auditors to his possible insanity, his early uncertainty as to his mission, his confessions of ignorance as to the future, his moments of bitterness, his despairing cry on the cross ; no one reading these scenes can doubt the reality of the figure behind them.