`` You may have seen me on TV '', she said.

The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

The American liberal may, in the world of to-day, have a strong case ; ;

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

Looking back, Miss Marsicano feels that her ideas may have been influenced by those of Jackson Pollock.

The conversation that ensued may have been engrossing but it could hardly be called world-shattering.

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.

The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;

It may, however, be noted that his gift for color and imagery must have been greatly stimulated by his stay in Paris.

Does our society have a runaway, uncontrollable growth of technology which may end our civilization, or a normal, healthy growth??

In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

Any abilities I may have were achieved in their present shape from experience in sharing in the growth and control of my business, coupled with raising my family.

The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

Such activity may or may not have irritated the Kremlin, but it has frequently condemned America to an unnatural defensiveness that has undermined our effort to give leadership to the free world.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

General Grant may have been the victim of false information in the instance reported in this book ; ;

But General Grant may have been self-victimized.

Again, he may discover embodied within its texture a theme or idea that has been presented elsewhere and at other times in various ways.

Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.

A nation may go to war on some trifling pretext, when in reality it may have been guided by an unconscious instinct that its very life was at stake.

I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.

`` It might well start a craze like swallowing goldfish or pee-wee golf '', wrote Kenneth Rexroth in an explanatory note in the Evergreen Review, and he may have been right.

Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.

Bonds never tested positive in tests performed in 2003, 2004, and 2005, which may be attributable to successful obfuscation of continued use as documented in the 2006 book Game of Shadows.

Many of these booms may be attributable to bird-scarers, automated cannon-like devices used by farmers to scare birds away from the many vineyards, orchards and crops.

Charles apparently eventually conquered his physical infirmity, which may be attributable to rickets and grew to an about-average height of.

New Grove encyclopaedia states that Fredigundis was a critical and popular failure, which may be partly attributable to the fact that Fredigundis ( Fredegund ), the widow of Chilperic I ), is presented as a murderous and sadistic feminine monster.

This may be attributable to the fact that CSF pressure may fluctuate over the course of the normal day.

The female-dominant vocals of trip hop may be partially attributable to the influence of genres such as jazz and early R & B in which female vocalists were more common.

These recent changes may be attributable to the new exotic species.

Meindert Dykstra suggests that " the reticence of OT scholarship to take account of the text may be attributable to its damaged state, the difficulty of reconstructing and reading it, and the many questions it raises of script, language, literary form and religious content.

This is attributable to a number of factors, including Mahayana-specific teachings regarding vegetarianism, East Asian cultural tendencies that predate the introduction of Buddhism ( some of which may have their roots in Confucianism ) and the different manner in which monks support themselves in East Asia.

According to the BBC, this may be attributable to cardiovascular problems.

The global adoption of ISO 9001 may be attributable to a number of factors.

" There may be limits attributable to the human element.

This may be attributable to the fact that Lao food served with sticky rice is traditionally handled by hand.

Unlike many other literary forms of the time, much skaldic poetry is attributable to an author ( called a skald ), and these attributions may be relied on with a reasonable degree of confidence.

The popularity of pastis may be attributable to a penchant for anise drinks that was cultivated by absinthe decades earlier, but is also part of an old tradition of Mediterranean anise liquors that includes sambuca, ouzo, arak, rakı, and mastika.

Another possible cause of the sudden risk shock may also be attributable to the handover of Hong Kong sovereignty on 1 July 1997.

The differing incidence across the world may be at least partially attributable to the lack of screening programs in certain regions of the world, and the overshadowing presence of other granulomatous diseases, such as tuberculosis, that may interfere with the diagnosis of sarcoidosis where they are prevalent.

V2000's failure may be partially attributable to its late entrance to market ( slowed by problems in the development of the DTF system ).

It has been argued, however, these findings may be attributable to the profound difference in therapist outlook between the two-factor and client-centered approaches, rather than to client-centered techniques per se.

Much of what some see as bureaucratic dysfunction may be attributable to the alliances formed between the agency and its constituency.

Some of the lack of classification of indigenous South American languages may be simply attributable to the small number of linguists devoted to the task and the limited amount of information available about many of the languages.

In the years that followed only one convention ( the 1952 Convention ) actually went beyond a single ballot, although this may be more attributable to changes in the nominating process itself than to the rules change.