It will be rewarding luck too, to be sure, but typically not sheer random fluke.[9] Hayek speaks as if merit has everything to do with trying hard, and nothing to do with being excellent, but saying it does not make it so (Schmidtz 2008, 34).
It's not sheer, but it could be.
But Pakistani officials say the main carnage in Kashmir is not sheer terrorism, but rather a festering guerrilla war waged mostly against Indian military and police forces, countered with harsh reprisals.
Even that is before counting subsidies to farmers for fertilisers, tractor fuel and the like.But India's move was not sheer petulance.
I am a positive person, so I like to believe that this was not sheer desperation but rather the slow rolling out of an incredibly subtle plan to trick Congress into thinking it's calling the shots.
In much of the life sciences, for example, the problem is often not sheer numbers but rather the rate at which women advance to senior posts.
But the presumption of cynicism, if not sheer sarcasm and negativity, has beclouded "Company".
Reasoning that executives should be paid for their own accomplishments but not for sheer good fortune, they investigated whether chief executives were in fact paid for luck.In the oil industry they found that chief executives' pay always benefits when the oil price is high, but does not necessarily suffer correspondingly when the price is low.
Not that I approve of that idiocy, but it has me wondering if it's not sheer contrariness on Govan's part.
Its meaning is elusive but only just, like a conversation overheard while half asleep: it is not incantation, not sheer sound, not nonsense, not scat.
