Textbooks typically present the "evidence for evolution" briefly, describing no more than a few well-documented classic examples from each of five or six categories, including the fossil record, biogeography, genetics, classification, comparative anatomy, and observed small-scale changes.
Strawson (1979) argued that the primary system, that purporting to describe no more than what was 'strictly available' to perception, could only be described using concepts available to those already acquainted with the secondary system.
The hero, a Confederate civilian about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage the bridge, apparently escapes his fate and makes his way home to his family, but the final, curt paragraph reveals that his deliverance, which Bierce has so meticulously and so movingly described, is no more than a dying man's fantasy.
The rationalist thesis as Smith describes it holds no more than that the fact that an act is morally right for an agent to perform entails that the agent has a good reason for performing it.
Even an attack that the president has described as no more than an effort to restore the "red line" could diminish the ability of Syrian forces to attack population centers with conventional munitions, depending on how the attack is devised.
Are numbers real, or should they be described as no more than abstractions?
"The Matrix Revolutions" is perhaps best described as no more (and no less) than an enormously sophisticated version of the 1953 George Pal classic, "The War of the Worlds".
The new guidelines, if adopted, would move the agency toward its "ultimate goals," which Dr. Gerberding described as: no more H.I.V.-infected children, no one living for years without antiretroviral treatment and, eventually, no more new cases of the disease.
Phil Smith, Britain's senior handicapper, accepted that jump racing had been unusually blessed during the recent years of Kauto Star and Denman, and said the overall level of quality in the latest season could be described as no more than "adequate".
Among the six other best-picture nominees, those that have come out here are Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" and "L'Arnacoeur" (here called "Heartbreaker"), which Anthony Lane described as "no more than a handsome trifle, consumed as easily and pleasantly as a glossy catalogue".
