His last album, "Magna Carta Holy Grail," which was initially available only on Samsung devices, demonstrated, not for the first time, that merely being Jay-Z does not always result in particularly memorable music.
Whether the general notion of chemical substance, or the property of being a particular substance for each of the millions of know substances, can be reduced to microstructure as proponents of microessentialism hold needs to be demonstrated and not merely assumed.
This was a speech nominally about the Internet, but Secretary Clinton again and again talked about the power of people massing and demonstrating, not because of technology but merely aided by it.
The onus must be on Iran's leaders to demonstrate, and not merely in rosy 140-character tweets from a president whose power is limited, that this worldview has changed.
Pye's ambitions for it are altogether broader: for what he wishes to demonstrate is not merely that the various peoples bordering the North Sea contributed towards the forging of the modern, but that it was the North Sea itself which, in the words of his subtitle, "made us who we are".
His Cours de philosophie positive, published in six volumes between 1830 and 1842, sought to demonstrate irrefutably not merely the possibility but the inevitability of a science of man, one for which Comte coined the word "sociology" and that would do for man the social being exactly what biology had already done for man the biological animal.
The significant contribution of social adversity at age 16 in women remained in the adjusted model (corresponding to model 4) after excluding residential instability (β = 0.13, p = 0.009), parental loss (β = 0.10, p = 0.044) or parental illness (β = 0.11, p = 0.040), indicating that the demonstrated association was not merely explained by the presence of some particular adversity.
And, as this case so very clearly demonstrates, that applies not merely to the judgments of high court judges; it applies also to the judgments of circuit judges".
However, it also underscores the need for procedural safeguards which require the authorities to justify such measures and demonstrate their proportionality, not merely in the abstract, but in the concrete circumstances of the given case.
