Some officials have publicly stated the date is a mere target and any force reduction will be purely symbolic, but the President himself is quoted as insisting on a firm timetable, because "I can't lose the whole Democratic Party".
Part of that transformation was due to attempts by the crown to monopolize financial penalties, but other changes sprang from the inability of the system to include adequate consideration of the victim as more than a mere target of crime.
To raise an obvious point: are under-defended carriers (Gordon Brown's job creation gesture to Rosyth) a good idea in the 21st century or mere target practice?
Such binding is a general characteristic of attention (Treisman & Gelade, 1980), and recent work has shown that a robust hallmark of attention (the N2PC) is specifically associated with the combined localization and identification of targets in a visual search task (Hyun, Woodman, Vogel, Hollingworth, & Luck, 2009) but unassociated with mere target detection.
Swallows and swifts are mere target practice.
It seems, for example, that what comes into existence on the above account of the generating process (which talks of authors' conceiving of their literary creations) is not a fictional object as such, but rather a (mere) intentional object, the target of a certain authorial thought.
In particular, antigen-stimulated T-cell proliferation not only requires adequate costimulation, but also an increased density of MHC/peptide complexes on APC, as compared to mere targeting of cytotoxic activity (Schild et al, 1990; Gervois et al, 1996).
The bored and lonely consumers who find comfort in Facebook chit-chat are pawns in the enterprise, mere targets for commodities.
It could be argued that in light of that 100% male quota, backed up for centuries by actual legislation, a mere 30% unenforceable target seems positively meek.
How was I to explain that a mere trip to Target was more than I could handle?
The overall scheme was actually a brilliant "double bluff," Macintyre writes, designed to "not only divert the Germans from the real target but portray the real target as a 'cover target,' a mere decoy".
