Without the rise, Obama would have had to divert money from other federal spending to pay the interest on American loans and, as a consequence, he had warned that 80 million people in receipt of federal cheques, mainly benefits, might have ended up as the casualties.
His final, prescriptive chapter pays homage to America's advantages — mainly, military might and democratic, entrepreneurial values — but his more persuasive point is simply that power is relative: if the world descends into a barroom brawl, the United States will still be the largest, strongest drunk in the joint.
But there is a second sense of dunamis and it is the one in which Aristotle is mainly interested that might be better translated as 'potentiality'potentiality
My childhood fantasies have been stirred anew by Super Mario Maker, and my evenings to come are to be spent creating more levels, albeit only for myself, mainly—I might just share a few online, for other owners of this game to play.
"There are one or two things I covered up, mainly because they might have hurt people close to me.
These small diversity victories are encouraging mainly because they might inch the door open to much bigger ones.
Austria's politicians could make a useful start by dropping their strident opposition to the notion that Turkey, a mainly Muslim country, might ever join the European Union.
A DOZEN years ago the OECD published its Jobs Strategy, a list of recommended ways in which governments (mainly in Europe) might reduce high and persistent unemployment rates.
In 1933 at a rally in support of German refugees at the Albert Hall, Stanley Baldwin's former foreign secretary, Austen Chamberlain, publicly worried that an influx of (mainly Jewish) arrivals might become "an irritant".
He gave Earl Wilson and other gossip columnists free drinks, like all the other bars, but begged them not to mention Clarke's, mainly so celebrities might feel protected there.
