But where the gift has not been delivered, and moreover, where the gift is made conditional upon subsequent events which may or may not occur, that gift may be revoked by the donor at any time prior to its vesting; for until delivery there exists no gift, but rather, merely the promise of a gift.
So, he said, what was happening in the early years of Putin's presidency - when former oligarchs and clans were moved out of lucrative businesses, and new owners and structures replaced them - wasn't about developing and growing the pie, but rather, merely a case of redistributing what was already there.
Two questions were "reality" questions that did not require inferences about mental states but rather merely the detection of facts from the story that were visually comprehendible.
Locke's denial of innate moral ideas, Shaftesbury believed, implied that morality was not something "real" or in the world but rather merely the result of custom or fashion.
There is even strong evidence that monetary incentives do not affect quality of work, but rather merely affect the number of times a worker is willing to do a task [28].
As such, it may not be a conditioning factor for the arising of cognitive awareness, but rather merely a subliminal level of mental processing.
Forced labour differs from slavery in that it involves not the ownership of one person by another but rather merely the forced exploitation of that person's labour.
Modifications made to the EPN were not intended to change the built in logic of the notation scheme but rather merely enhance the visual characteristics of the diagrams produced.
If we think along this line, these new technology systems are not nearly as disruptive as they first appear, but rather merely the next logical phase of abstraction in the economy.
I must admit that I am not one of the orig- inators of the appeal, but rather merely lent my signature upon invitation.
