While the state of nature's condition of perfectly private judgment is an abstraction, something resembling it too closely for comfort remains a perpetually present possibility, to be feared, and avoided.
It is not an ever present possibility but the given in each case".
In Israel, the prime minister's counterterrorism office also warned of "a clear and present possibility that a terror attack is planned against Israeli travelers in Bangkok".
Falling into poverty is an all too present possibility for growing numbers of Americans who lack the savings and assets to see them through a crisis.
Plans to equip every child in developing countries with a computer present possibilities beyond education.
There was a residue of genuine uncertainty, and this made disaster an ever-present possibility, not a once-in-a-lifetime "shock". Investment was more an act of faith than a scientific calculation of probabilities.
Still, one wonders if the show is as much a reaffirmation of present possibilities as a remembrance of things past.
Sorabji (1998, 4 5) argues that 'perhaps' is ambiguous, marking either a hesitant statement about the future or a statement about present possibilities, and that the determinist argument plays on this ambiguity, something which he thinks Ammonius did not see.
They are punctuated by moments of pleasure that take place against a darker backdrop: a keen awareness of catastrophe as an always-present possibility.
That plainly isn't true; it would be more accurate to say that being in a foxhole, or anywhere else where death is an ever-present possibility, makes you think about ultimate matters.
Since numbering is considered harassment, detention by the religious police is an ever-present possibility.
