What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.

What steps have been taken to guard against the one sort of mishap that could trigger the destruction of continents??

What Lincoln could not concede was that the states rather than the people were sovereign in the Union.

What better affirmative step could be taken to this end than repeal of the Connally amendment -- an act which could expose the United States to no practical risk yet would put an end to our self-judging attitude toward the court, enable us to utilize it, and advance in a tangible way the cause of international law and order??

`` What else could I do??

What it was Kate could not fathom.

What could a blockade accomplish??

What had been an unmanageably powerful introject was now, despite its continuing charge of energy disconcerting to me, sufficiently within control of her ego that she could use it to show me what this introjected mother was like.

What with traders trading for so many different objectives, and what with there being so many unique and individualized market theories and trading techniques in use, and more coming into use all the time, it is hard to imagine how any particular theory or technique could acquire enough `` fans '' to invalidate itself.

What bits of Brumidi and Costaggini could be reached at either end seemed in good order, though the roughish sandy surface was thick with dust.

What more could be asked for a Trial intended to warn the world against anti-Semitism than this opportunity to expose the exact link between the respectable Anti-Semite and the concentration-camp brute??

What did she think he could do??

What could rescue the bill would be some quick progress on a bill amending the National Defense Education Act of 1958.

( What other purpose could a striking union have but to interrupt the flow of commerce from the struck enterprise??

What otherwise could `` the lawyer, doctor, minister, the men of science and letters '' do when told that they had `` become the cherubim and seraphim and the three archangels who stood before the golden throne of the merchant, and continually cried, ' Holy, holy, holy is the Almighty Dollar ' ``??

`` What could I do with your lousy dead bodies??

What possible feature could a proof and a fragrance both share in virtue of which they both count as beautiful?

What was happening was that as more air was pumped from the tubes, the electrons could travel farther, on average, before they struck a gas atom.

Early the next morning, Haman came to the king to ask permission to hang Mordecai, but before he could, the king asked him " What should be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?

Dr. Cardew, who, in a later letter to Davies Gilbert, said dryly: “ I could not discern the faculties by which he was afterwards so much distinguished .” Davy said himself: “ I consider it fortunate I was left much to myself as a child, and put upon no particular plan of study ... What I am I made myself .”

" What could be better than a type of English that saves you from having to re-edit publications for individual regional markets!

" What could have saved Indian society from the ponderous burden of omnifarious ritualistic ceremonialism, with its animal and other sacrifices, which all but crushed the very life of it, except the Jain revolution, which took its strong stand exclusively on chaste morals and philosophical truths?

:: Maxwell-Fyfe: What further pressure could you put on the head of a country beyond threatening him that your Army would march in, in overwhelming strength, and your air force would bomb his capital?

What started out as mere retribution, eventually evolved into full-fledged campaigns of expansion with religious crusader motives.

What the barons really sought was the overthrow of the King ; the demand for a charter was a " mere subterfuge ".

It was reprinted in 1986, and in the Foreword to that edition George Lovi ( astronomer and writer ) writes, " What makes it so special is that it is the first true celestial Baedeker and not just another " cold " catalogue of mere numbers and data.

What was extraordinary about Cavendish ’ s experiment was its elimination of every source of error and every factor that could disturb the experiment and its precision in measuring an astonishingly small attraction, a mere 1 / 50, 000, 000 of the weight of the lead balls.

" As a result, the community-at that point a mere collection of farms-bore the unusual name " What You Please?

" What destroys a man more quickly ," he asks, " than to work, think, and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure — as a mere automaton of “ duty ”?

What gained Flaxman his general fame was not his work in sculpture proper, but those outline designs to the poets, in which he showed not only to what purpose he had made his own the principles of ancient design in vase paintings and bas reliefs, but also by what a natural affinity, better than all mere learning, he was bound to the ancients and belonged to them.

Robert Herbert interprets Metzinger's statement: " What Metzinger meant is that each little tile of pigment has two lives: it exists as a plane whose mere size and direction are fundamental to the rhythm of the painting and, secondly, it also has color which can vary independently of size and placement.

What Operation Silver Shovel may have done to undermine Giles's chances for election are unclear as he was already lagging with a mere 3 % among likely Democratic primary voters in a mid-December poll compared to Davis ’ 33 %, Smith ’ s 8 %, Tillman ’ s 7 %, and Steele ’ s 6 %.

What for Bertie is mere terrified longing for his warm safe apartment and the comforting presence of Jeeves and a nice cocktail, Madeline mistakes for pining love ; and when he pleads in the third person the cause of Gussie Fink-Nottle who adores Madeline from afar, Madeline of course mistakes his plea for a proposal from Bertie.

What made it extraordinary is that a mere sailors ' mutiny triggered an earthquake which shook all of Germany ; that the whole home army, the whole urban workforce and in Bavaria a part of the rural population rose up in revolt.

" What we call ' body ' and ' mind ' are mere abstractions from an identity experience that cannot be reduced to the one or the other abstraction, nor can it be hypostatized into some sort of thing without falsifying its very being.

What destroys us will not be a cosmic catastrophe but mere reasons of state, economics, prestige, etc .”

What was astonishing about Finch was that he could pitch a fastball at an amazing, far above the record of a " mere ", with pinpoint accuracy, and without needing to warm up.

What constitutes business knowledge versus mere belief?

The individual comes to feel himself a mere drop in the ocean ; and feeling impotent, he grows irresponsible ... What matters ultimately in life is states of mind-and the states of mind of individuals, not of mobs ...

" What especially surprised glaciologists was the speed of the breakup, which was a mere three weeks ( or less ).

What began as a mere snowstorm has strengthened into a full-force blizzard.

* " What is important is to try to develop insights and wisdom rather than mere knowledge, respect someone's character rather than his learning, and nurture men of character rather than mere talents.

What others would deem to be cheating is mere convention, as players signal their partners what they can catch by pointing a domino, spinning it counterclockwise or clockwise or even place it at various angles.

Similarly, Marks agree with Edwards that correlations between geographical areas and genetics obviously exists in human populations, but goes on to note that " What is unclear is what this has to do with " race " as that term has been though much in the twentieth century-the mere fact that we can find groups to be different and can reliably allot people to them is trivial.

What if different explanations are given for a mere fiction?

What was a mere seventy-five at the turn of the century was by the early eighties over a six-hundred.