The diseases and syndromes for which embryonic stem-cell research holds out the promise of treatment or cure include diabetes, chronic heart disease, end-stage kidney disease, liver failure, cancer, Parkinson's, spinal-cord injury, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, and birth defects — a stunning catalogue of human misery that, by itself, constitutes an argument that ought to be conclusive.
If any part of global warming can be attributed to the actions of humans then this, by itself, constitutes certain and convincing proof that the human population, living as we do, has exceeded the carrying capacity of the Earth, a situation that is clearly not sustainable.
To our knowledge ours it the first study to undertake the analysis of so many histological markers in human samples and this marker loss by itself constitutes an interesting result.
This capacity, however, does not by itself constitute having a language, since articulate sounds are produced even by parrots, as Locke himself noted.
The ancient gesture of digitus impudicus "impudent finger" to the Romans -- may be "repugnant, distasteful, and crass" and beyond free speech protection, but directed by one motorist against another does not by itself constitute disorderly conduct, a Texas appeals court has ruled.
No doubt there are other available strategies so the problem does not by itself constitute an objection.
While this qualitative assessment does not, by itself, constitute formal verification, it can be used to contemplate and explore a wide range of hypotheses.
Given this, pointing out that the application of any particular principle will have some, perhaps many, immoral results will not by itself constitute a fatal counterexample to any distributive theory.
Thus, and this is the upshot of Wayne's argument, an ascription of quantum field operators to all space-time points does by itself constitute a field configuration, namely for the vacuum state, even if this is not the actual state.
However, the TTAB has also previously held that "mere knowledge of the existence of the prior user should not, by itself, constitute bad faith".
However, the simple fact that more small studies have obtained positive findings does not by itself constitute evidence of such publication bias, particularly when there are systematic differences in quality between small studies and large studies.
