Marbury and his lawyer, former attorney general Charles Lee, argued that signing and sealing the commission completed the transaction and that delivery, in any event, constituted a mere formality.
That constituted a mere fleck in Johnson's career, another note to add to the five Cy Young awards, the perfect game, the World Series championship and the almost-certain spot in the Hall of Fame.
African Americans, in contrast, would constitute a mere 1.2percentt of people eligible for an exemption, despite being 23percentt of the affected Medicaid population.
Whatever the reason for leaving the service, if, judged by the terms of the contract, it is insufficient in law, it is not 'just cause.' The money received and repayable, nothing more being shown, constitutes a mere debt.
A picket line might constitute a mere inconvenience and hardly make performance "impracticable". Likewise, in certain industries with a long record of labor difficulties, the nonoccurrence of strikes and picket lines could not fairly be said to be a basic assumption of the agreement.
In fact, if I might just wire him up to our notional polygraph again, what does Jeremy think is more likely: that a child's parent or parents appearing on his show will constitute a mere 49 minutes in their childhood, or that its ripples will magnify that car-crash public event enormously – grotesquely – into something that cannot fail to be formative, and endlessly repercussive in its damage?
Custom duties, for example, may have excess burdens as low as 2.6%, but such duties also constitute a mere penny of every dollar in federal taxes collected.
But, for all its hugeness, the seven-by-one-mile valley constitutes a mere five per cent of the park's total size.
This also is a good to which sin is integral, rather than constituting a mere causal means, and which makes the world far better than it would be if sin never occurred.
Qataris constitute a mere 12percentnt of the Gulf state's population.
Again, while white women constitute a mere 10percentt of nonprofit board members, Black women are less than 1percentt, Latina women 0.1percentt and Asian women 0.2percentt.
