The "crowning" consisted in the mere formality of the taking of the constitutional oath before Parliament, as Mahometan law forbids the wearing of a crown even by the successor of Tut-ankh-amen.
Each item consisted of a mere sentence, using the same striking verb, describing a bobcat spotted in the headlights of a truck.
Dr. Johnson was the only instructor of the college's first class, which consisted of a mere eight students.
If tranquillity consisted in mere refractoriness to unsettling experiences, the impassive state of a stone should then be viewed as the best condition (Theonoston, OO, II, 299b, 305b, 313b).
As long as hybrids consist of a mere 2% of all market sales, auto manufacturers in the U.S. are sent on a fool's errand when designing new fleets.
Guatemalans, in turn, accuse Belize of the same thing, though Belize's military consists of a mere 600 men.
Even Spinoza suggests that the highest stages of knowledge consist in a form of intuitive insight, which transcends mere reasoning or conceptual knowledge in that it enables us to grasp the essence of individual things.
Seemingly crucial to their doubts about Husserl's reduction is their belief that an essential part of intentionality consists in a distinctively practical involvement with the world that cannot be broken by any mere abstention from judgment.
It was Leibniz who recognized the phenomenal character (Phenomenalität) of space and time as consisting in the mere ordering of phenomena; however, space and time themselves do not have an independent reality.
According to this view, true or real liberty does not consist in the mere absence of intentional coercion, but in the positive capability or power to act in pursuit of significant goals, such as self-development.
The metrical field has physical and metrical significance, and the metrical significance does not consist in the mere articulation of relations obtaining between, say, rigid rods or ideal clocks.
