Here surely it must mean "pursuit," because Pythagoras is presented as taking it away from the traders and we can hardly suppose that the traders were engaged in the theoretical science of arithmetic.
Bertrand Russell observes that "[w]e can hardly suppose a parliament of hitherto speechless elders meeting together and agreeing to call a cow a cow and a wolf a wolf" (1921, p. 190).
One can hardly suppose that the complex proteasome core was the ancestral state for all life and that monomeric NTN hydrolases ultimately evolved from it via HslV and two progressive simplifications involving a change of chaperone partner and then its loss.
But it would hardly be supposed that they could be tried before a jury charged with the duty of determining whether those teachings contained false representations.
It can hardly be supposed that in all, or even most, instances the result of the type of picketing involved here will be simply that suggested by the Court.
'It can hardly be supposed that Congress designed, not only to open the doors of the circuit courts to these parties without reference to the ordinary conditions of citizenship and amount in dispute, but, in their behalf, to convert the district courts into courts of general common law and equity jurisdiction.
With these advantages, it can hardly be supposed that the adverse party would have an equal chance for a favorable issue.
The House of Lords held that it had statutory authority to operate the refinery, saying "Parliament can hardly be supposed to have intended the refinery to be nothing more than a visual adornment to the landscape in an area of natural beauty".
He is fantastically irritating, with an all-but-unintelligible accent with which he says things like: "We's a goin' home!" and "Me's a scaaaared!" I need hardly say Jar Jar is supposed to be black: or rather he is a kind of interplanetary, convenient Lucasfilms-variant on black.
But a defender of the theory need hold only that we require this assistance for some part of our ordinary cognitive activities: hardly anyone has supposed that every form of human cognition requires divine illuimination.
