Anyone who suggests that the system is fine as is, and that these acts are mere anomalies at the hands of madmen, are wrong.
Mere administrative anomalies before the partition of Berlin, these exclaves became potential international trouble spots.
In the 90 years since Rebecca Felton of Georgia became the first woman in the United States Senate — sworn in for a mere 24 hours — women remain an anomaly in the upper chamber.
Eubrontes giganteus, for example, is there a mere 10,000 years after the iridium anomaly.
"And it could all be done," Mr. Klerkx sarcastically comments, "on schedule and on budget (making it an anomaly in NASA's history) for a mere $400 to $500 billion of taxpayer funds".
But that's a mere Band-Aid when there are so many other anomalies and ambiguities in play, and Oscar's criteria are so muddy.
Any one data point can be an anomaly; any cluster of data points can be mere noise.
She explains that from 1994 to 1999, we experienced a lull during which health care costs grew at a mere 2% to 7%, but she insists that the interlude was an anomaly since costs had been rising for decades before that.
Thackray's handsome face and strong Roman nose, his vertical posture and watery, wisenheimer eyes – with the merest hint of vulnerability – made him a housewives' favourite back in the day, though Thackray was also an anomaly, impossible to categorise.
