The tantalisingly fragmented and shifting narrative presents three principal characters, a woman and two men, in the opulent setting of a grand European hotel or château where the possibility of a previous encounter a year ago is repeatedly asserted and questioned and contradicted.

* Texas v. White ( 74 U. S. 700 ), 1869, in which he asserted that the Constitution provided for a permanent union, composed of indestructible states, while allowing some possibility of divisibility " through revolution, or through consent of the States ";

China cited the possibility that the monument could be used to downplay the fact that the victim countries of Japan's aggression suffered the greatest losses of life during the war, while the United States asserted that having a memorial to a war site would omit the necessary historical context.

But common people, as it was believed, also were seduced by incubi and succubae, especially while they were asleep, and sometimes when they were awake, in the form of a beautiful man or woman that excited their desire to the point of not being able to resist the temptation, although the possibility of resistance always existed as asserted by Christian theologians, but the tendency to sin was stronger than their faith.

One of De Man's central topoi is of the blindness on which these critical readings are predicated, that the " insight seems instead to have been gained from a negative movement that animates the critic's thought, an unstated principle that leads his language away from its asserted stand ... as if the very possibility of assertion had been put into question.

On December 27, 2011, Political Wire reported that Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson would not seek re-election, and asserted that Kerrey was in talks with senior Democrats about the possibility of replacing him.

While Marcel recognized that human interaction often involved objective characterisation of " the other ", he still asserted the possibility of " communion " – a state where both individuals can perceive each other's subjectivity.

Since " all lemons are yellow or Santa Claus exists ( or both )", yet we earlier asserted that " not all lemons are yellow ", the only possibility remaining is that " Santa Claus exists ".

Some claimed several new and more incredible results ( for example, Dr. Petetin asserted the possibility of perceiving things which were not perceivable through the eyes ).

HBO had repeatedly asserted that the two movies could still be made, but it noted in July 2008 that the possibility of the two TV movies being made was very slim.

Scholars have asserted that Prem Rawat's teachings originate in the traditions of the North Indian Sants, who dismiss all religious ritual and dogma and emphasize the possibility of a direct experience of God, who, they claim, " dwells in the heart ".

Lutheran apologist Ted Peters ( 2003 ) asserts that the questions raised by the possibility of extraterrestrial life are by no means new to Christian theology and by no means pose, as asserted by other authors, a threat for Christian dogma.

Denying the possibility of innate ideas, he asserted that morality comes by revelation.

Indeed, the weaker the French Republic seemed, the more seriously the Austrians, the Neapolitans, the Russians and the British actually discussed this possibility.

The fort was razed to preclude the possibility of its being used as a stronghold against the Russians and their allies ever again.

However, it ought not be neglected, that the conspiracy also further emboldened the Russians, who for all of the century had successfully strived for influence over Sweden's domestic and foreign politics, and now saw the increasing possibility to acquire all of Sweden's eastern provinces, which would mean a substantial improvement of the strategic position of the new Russian capital, Saint Petersburg, at the Gulf of Finland.

There is a possibility that battery-powered radios with built-in radiation meters may become available.

But during nighttime hours the skywave radiations are reflected from the ionosphere, thereby creating the possibility of one station's rendering service, via skywave, at a much greater distance than it can through its groundwave signal, and at the same time vastly complicating the interference problem because of the still greater distance over which these skywave signals may cause interference to the signals of stations on the same and closely adjacent frequencies.

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.

We assume further that the union recognizes the possibility that price-level increases may offset wage-rate increases, and it does not entirely disregard the effect of price increases arising from its own wage increases upon the `` real '' wage rate.

The possibility has to be ruled out that the medium's ESP may tap the memory of the sitter, and to do this, the two central characters in this drama must be separated.

John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, believed in an intermediate state between death and the resurrection of the dead and in the possibility of " continuing to grow in holiness there ", but Methodism does not officially affirm this belief and denies the possibility of helping by prayer any who may be in that state.

Jebb entertained the possibility that this work survives in the form of the Encomium of Helen ascribed to Gorgias: " It appears not improbable that Anaximenes may have been the real author of the work ascribed to Gorgias.

A review of major longitudinal studies in North America found that a moderate number of patients with schizophrenia were seen to recover over time from their symptoms, raising the possibility that some patients may not require maintenance medication.

These include the use of genetic information in reproductive decision-making and the possibility of genetically altering reproductive cells that may be passed on to future generations.

Behaviors can be either innate or learned, however, current research in the Human Microbiome Project points towards a possibility that human behavior may be influenced by the composition of the microbe population within a human body.

In the Burial service, the possibility that a deceased person who has died in the faith may nevertheless not be counted amongst God's elect, is not entertained.

For one thing, if verbal reports are treated as observations, akin to observations in other branches of science, then the possibility arises that they may contain errors — but it is difficult to make sense of the idea that subjects could be wrong about their own experiences, and even more difficult to see how such an error could be detected.

In the case of metastatic breast cancer, a Cochrane Review published in 2008 maintained that the current body of evidence is not sufficient to rule out the possibility that psychological interventions may cause harm to women with this advanced neoplasm.

At the same time, it does not deny the possibility that those not visibly members of the Church may attain salvation as well.

The principal advantages of compound turbines are the reduction in size of any one casing, the confinement of the highest pressure to the smaller casing ( which may be made of stronger and more expensive materials ) and the possibility of divided flow in the low-pressure casing for the purpose of equalizing end thrusts.

For security reasons certain types of data ( e. g., credit-card information ) may be kept encrypted in storage to prevent the possibility of unauthorized information reconstruction from chunks of storage snapshots ( taken either via unforeseen vulnerabilities in a DBMS, or more likely, by bypassing it ).

For security reasons certain types of data ( e. g., credit-card information ) may be kept encrypted in storage to prevent the possibility of unauthorized information reconstruction from chunks of storage snapshots ( taken either via unforeseen vulnerabilities in a DBMS, or more likely, by bypassing it ).

Some evidence for this last possibility may be seen in film recordings of the crash-as the nose of the boat climbs and the jet exhaust points at the water surface no disturbance or spray can be seen at all.

Information asymmetries and incomplete markets may result in economic inefficiency but also a possibility of improving efficiency through market, legal, and regulatory remedies, as discussed above.

Modern humans are known to have overlapped with Neanderthals in Europe for more than 10, 000 years, and the discovery raises the possibility that Neanderthals, modern humans and the Denisova hominin may have co-existed.

Current research has established that humans are genetically highly homogenous ; that is, the DNA of individuals is more alike than usual for most species, which may have resulted from their relatively recent evolution or the possibility of a population bottleneck resulting from cataclysmic natural events such as the Toba catastrophe.

Some art historians believe that fresco artists from Crete may have been sent to various locations as part of a trade exchange, a possibility which raises to the fore the importance of this art form within the society of the times.

The possibility that Lorentz symmetry may be violated has been seriously considered in the last two decades, particularly after the development of a realistic effective field theory that describes this possible violation, the so-called Standard-Model Extension.

Obviously, a satisfactory answer to the third question is imperative, if the argument is to get under way at all, for if there is any possibility of doubt whether the patient's tactual sensitivity had been impaired by the occipital lesion, any findings whatsoever in regard to the first question become completely ambiguous and fail altogether, of course, as evidence to establish the desired conclusion.

There was no reason to leave the comfortable quarters inside the ship, except that, faced with a possibility of sleeping on solid ground, they simply had to get out.

I believe that he purposely deceived me, using the possibility of joining the ROTC as a ploy to work with the draft board to delay his induction and get a new draft classification.

He also argued that the current framework is moral, both because proving mamzer status sufficiently beyond all doubt is already so difficult that it is rare, and because the mere existence and possibility of mamzerut status, even if rarely enforced, creates an important incentive for divorcing parties to obtain a get ( Jewish religious divorce ) to avoid the sin of adultery.

Since Dyson was being tackled by the legs, there was still the possibility he could reach towards the end zone and get the ball above the goal line.

In a 1982 interview, he said: " I think that there is an ideology in McLuhan's discourse that I don't agree with, because he's an optimist as to the possibility of restoring an oral community which would get rid of the writing machines and so on.

They do talk about their love affair though: about the possibility of Jim leaving his wife and children (" I dunno if I could get on without the kids "), about Liza not being able to leave her mother because the latter needs her help, about living somewhere else " as if we was married ", about bigamy -- but, strangely, not about adultery.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk later observed that during the Kennedy Presidency neither he nor Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara liked to " get into much discussion " in the NSC with " so many people sitting around the room " and the possibility of leaks so great.

There is also a very high possibility that he or she could get injured or killed during the course of his or her military service.

It was the only possibility for many Hungarian and Eastern-European authors to get their short stories printed.

It cannot be expelled while a person getting sick, however some people get too many considerations about the seriousness and possibility of the health anxiety disorder, and the rest of them do not care about it and cause the development of the disorder.

With scouts unable to locate more individuals, it has become a possibility that experts will have to bring the survivors back to Jersey, using expertise from the Madagascar Teal and Meller's Duck to help the duck get back from the brink

So before we get to the possibility of inserting ü in position one it is necessary to skip over six ( there are five characters in " bcher " giving six insertion positions ) potential insertions of each of the 124 preceding non-ASCII code points ( 252-128, the upper limit of ASCII ) and one possible insertion ( at position zero ) of code point 252.

For example, one of the properties is the way of death: if two rulers were both poisoned, they get value of + 1 in their property of the way of death ; if one ruler was poisoned and another killed in combat, they get-1 ; and if one was poisoned, and another died of illness, they get 0 ( there is possibility that chroniclers were not impartial and that different descriptions nonetheless describe the same person ).

The three came to realize that writing and performing their music in English would have impaired their possibility to get their message across the Romanian music scene so they decided to scrap the work they had done up until 1995 and start from scratch.

Using a substantial number of trials, Pfungst found that the horse could get the correct answer even if von Osten himself did not ask the questions, ruling out the possibility of fraud.

Although it is controversial, Lewis rejected the Limit Assumption ( and therefore the Uniqueness Assumption ) because it rules out the possibility that there might be worlds that get closer and closer to the actual world without limit.

Manager Felipe Alou publicly discussed the possibility of converting Torrealba into a utility player to get him more playing time, but that never came to pass.

Tegu is kept prisoner by Temudan's brother, the Emperor of Hokkan, who bribes him with the possibility of being reunited with Hāgasu to get him to block the other seishis powers, thereby protecting his rule and the Hokkan army.

This was to get around the possibility of losing the jewel case or discarding.

The nature of the co-counselling session opens up the possibility for people to get in touch with emotions that they would avoid in any other circumstance.

Although it is difficult to imagine how modern women would get infected by a mouse virus, an infection of both species by the same food might be a possibility, or passage from one species to the other may also occur.

A strategy of swinging on any ball to try to produce additional fouls and prolong an at-bat is often used against strong pitchers to try to drive them from the game sooner ( and also the possibility of the pitcher throwing a pitch a hitter can get a hit on ); this does, however, have the disadvantage of generating more strikeouts.