In Hartshorne's view, and as far as incompatibilist freedom is concerned, to be actually possible is to be (or to have been) possibly actual (Shields & Viney 2004, 231).
But the trouble with the law is that it acts after the harm has been done, after the prejudice has occurred and the trial has been possibly compromised.
THE political partnership between John Howard, Australia's prime minister, and Peter Costello, the treasurer (finance minister), has been possibly the most successful the country has seen.
It was the most memorable and the most damaging line of his campaign, and was said by one political writer to have been "possibly the most single damaging faux pas ever made by a presidential candidate".
I hadn't known that "Shamela" was only one of many works published in immediate response to "Pamela," and that "Pamela," indeed, had been possibly the biggest news of any kind in London in 1741.
Giving evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee, minister for pensions Steve Webb said that so far under auto-enrolment competition among pension providers to provide schemes for large employers had been "possibly fiercer than had been imagined".
