Merely launching a large total quantity reduces the manufacturing costs per vehicle, similar to how the mass production of automobiles brought about great increases in affordability.

Merely opening up a business to the public is not state action, but the performance of a " public function " ( a function that has been traditionally and exclusively performed by the state ) is state action ( Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U. S. 501 ( 1946 ));

Merely having a mental image of some sort is not the all-important consideration.

Merely to satisfy the author's curiosity.

Merely being aware of kindness in oneself and others is also associated with greater well-being.

:" Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

Merely remaining silent in face of protracted questioning is insufficient to assert right.

Merely passing money from one person to another, so long as it is done with the intent to disguise the source, ownership, location or control of the money, has been deemed a financial transaction under the law.

Rush Tribute: Merely Players.

Merely requesting a web page from a few kilometers away involves satisfying a stack of protocols that involve many examples of hardware and software servers.

For a number of years, Gaynor was the Fox studios foremost actress and was given the choice of prime roles, starring in such films as Sunny Side Up ( 1929 ), Delicious ( 1931 ), Merely Mary Ann ( also 1931 ), and Adorable ( 1933 ), as well as State Fair ( 1933 ) with Will Rogers and The Farmer Takes a Wife ( 1935 ), which introduced Henry Fonda to the screen as Gaynor's leading man.

Merely holding an office in the priesthood does not imply authority over other church members or agency to act on behalf of the church.

Merely snatching the property from the victim's person is not sufficient force unless the victim resists or one of the items is attached or carried in such a way that a significant amount of force must be used to free the item from the victim's person.

Merely inserting an object like a probe into a plasma changes the density, temperature, and potential at the sheath edge and perhaps everywhere.

Merely being traded is insufficient, it must be a full listing, and this excludes AIM ' PLUS-quoted and PLUS-traded market segments, but PLUS itself is acceptable ; shares in unquoted companies ; warrants ; futures and options.

Merely a few months later, he was involved in a new fling with Alma Ross, an actress.

Merely one day later, Jameson broke the spirit ( though not the letter ) of his agreement with Iron Man, using the headline " a wanted murderer ( Wolverine ), an alleged ex-member of a terrorist organization ( Spider-Woman ) and a convicted heroin-dealer ( Luke Cage ) are just some of the new recruits set to bury the once good name of the Avengers ," but refraining from attacking Spider-Man.

Merely the use of formalism alone does not explain several issues: why we should use the axioms we do and not some others, why we should employ the logical rules we do and not some others, why do " true " mathematical statements ( e. g., the laws of arithmetic ) appear to be true, and so on.

This was followed in the Examiner on 20 December by the short-lived Mary's Home from College, a precursor to the " girl strips " such as Cliff Sterrett's Polly and Her Pals and John Held Jr .' s Merely Margie ; and on 23 December with Gooseberry Sprigg, about a cigar-smoking " Duck Duke ", acharacter who had previously, and popularly, appeared in Herriman's sports cartoons.

Merely a large hostile presence.

* Merely touching a member of the opposite sex does not break one's wudu.

Merely understanding culture at the deepest level may be insufficient to institute cultural change because the dynamics of interpersonal relationships ( often under threatening conditions ) are added to the dynamics of organizational culture while attempts are made to institute desired change.

Merely giving a treatment can have nonspecific effects, and these are controlled for by the inclusion of a placebo group.

Merely deleting, disabling or rashly altering them can lead to undetectable holes in the test coverage.

Herbert G. Winful argues that the train analogy is a variant of the " reshaping argument " for superluminal tunneling velocities, but he goes on to say that this argument is not actually supported by experiment or simulations, which actually show that the transmitted pulse has the same length and shape as the incident pulse.

Michael Behe believes that many aspects of life show evidence of design, using the mousetrap in an analogy disputed by others.

", Bat-Mite attempts to get the show cancelled and introduces a thinly-veiled analogy to Scrappy in Punchichi, the nephew of Ace the Bat-Hound.

A series of correspondences between the two men show that while Hieronymus was sure that someday his theories of eloptic energy would be proven and accepted by physical scientists, Campbell was convinced that the machines were magical in nature, and that mock-ups of Hieronymus Machines allegedly worked by analogy or symbolism, which directed the user's PSI or ESP powers.

Additional geometrical considerations show, that length contraction can be regarded as a trigonometric phenomenon, with analogy to parallel slices through a cuboid before and after a rotation in E < sup > 3 </ sup > ( see left half figure at the right ).

This comes from a visual analogy between the trace of the bird's foot and the three lines used in the English official registers to show the ramifications of a genealogical tree.

The analogy and parallels with economics show that ethonomics, in this definition, has the potential to be a rich, influential and multi-faceted academic area.

The most typical form which the Jesse Tree takes is to show the figure of Jesse, often larger than all the rest, reclining or sleeping ( perhaps by analogy to Adam when his rib was taken ) at the foot of the pictorial space.

A celebrity widely known nationally as a presenter on the reality show " Dom-2 " on the Russian channel TNT, she is sometimes described to international audiences as, by way of analogy, Russia's " It girl " and " Russia's Paris Hilton ".

In the vacuum cleaner analogy, one might have a vacuum cleaner definition with its ports, but now this definition would also include a full description of the machine's internal components and how they connect ( motors, switches, etc.

In the analogy above, Bob might publish instructions on how to make a lock (" public key ").

In " The Robots of Death " ( 1977 ), the Fourth Doctor tried to explain this to his companion Leela, using the analogy of how a larger cube can appear to be able to fit inside a smaller one if the larger cube is farther away, yet immediately accessible at the same time ( see Tesseract ).

One analogy is to think of helium-4 as ash, and the amount of ash that one forms when one completely burns a piece of wood is insensitive to how one burns it.

In the book, he presents an analogy about how the individual neurons of the brain coordinate to create a unified sense of a coherent mind by comparing it to the social organization displayed in a colony of ants.

Spielberg's characteristic theme of communication is partnered with the ideal of mutual understanding: he has suggested that the story's central alien-human friendship is an analogy for how real-world adversaries can learn to overcome their differences.

He can occasionally appear rather childlike, by making animal noises and gestures or by acting out how such an analogy cannot work, which sometimes annoys his Minister.

James Francis Ross in Portraying Analogy ( 1982 ), the first substantive examination of the topic since Cajetan's De Nominum Analogia, demonstrated that analogy is a systematic and universal feature of natural languages, with identifiable and law-like characteristics which explain how the meanings of words in a sentence are interdependent.

F0 was placed at a position specifying no damage ( approximately the eighth level of the Beaufort scale ), in analogy to how the Beaufort's zeroth level specifies little to no wind.

The commentary discusses how poets used analogy in their writings to indirectly express the corruption within the church and government to the public.

Supporters of product based planning suggest that this overcomes difficulties that arise from assumptions about what to do and how to do it by focusing instead on the goals and objectives of the project-an oft-quoted analogy is that PBS defines where you want to go, the WBS tells you how to get there.

He described in graphic terms the greatest of the more superficial changes he underwent ; how he had " carried into logical and ethical problems the maxims and postulates of physical knowledge ," and had moved within the narrow lines drawn by the philosophical instructions of the class-room " interpreting human phenomena by the analogy of external nature "; how he served in willing captivity " the ' empirical ' and ' necessarian ' mode of thought ," even though " shocked " by the dogmatism and acrid humours " of certain distinguished representatives " and how in a period of " second education " at Humboldt University in Berlin, " mainly under the admirable guidance of Professor Trendelenburg ," he experienced " a new intellectual birth " which " was essentially the gift of fresh conceptions, the unsealing of hidden openings of self-consciousness, with unmeasured corridors and sacred halls behind ; and, once gained, was more or less available throughout the history of philosophy, and lifted the darkness from the pages of Kant and even Hegel.

One point of a social welfare function is to determine how close the analogy is to an ordinal utility function for an individual with at least minimal restrictions suggested by welfare economics.

He used an analogy of lowering the water level in a river to expose the rocks to explain how removing inventory showed where production flow was interrupted.

The name comes from the idea that we should use the analogy of natural systems as an aid in understanding how to design sustainable industrial systems.

: ZEEK: The Hasidim / Misnagdim analogy is a fascinating one, though I can see how some folks in the Havurah movement might have bones to pick there.

In ethics, by analogy, each person should attempt to become more of an ideal person, and a person's morality can actually be measured by examining how close they live up to their ideal self.

By request of the Ministry of Education, the Teachers ' Association made a draft of how to conduct the final examinations in the humanistic subjects in Aarhus and in the draft, the Association proposed that the faculty was named the Faculty of Humanities by analogy with the corresponding faculties in Uppsala, Lund, and Turku.

By analogy to similar parts of the brain such as the retina, many researchers have focused on how the olfactory bulb filters incoming information from receptor neurons in space, or how it filters incoming information in time.

( Which is to say that one of the characters draws that analogy ; how seriously Asimov meant it is unclear.