Whether it was that pressure or mere circumstance, the weekend did not go well for Hamlin.
Timeless, transcendental, absolute -- morality stood in the sharpest possible contrast to freedom, which was transient, inconsistent and dependent on mere circumstance.
Opening there in November 2001, it might have benefited from a kind of post-9/11 need for syrupy escapism, but its success can't be dismissed as mere circumstance.
But he said, "Wouldn't it have been more inappropriate to exclude somebody for the mere circumstance that they had been sued over this transaction?" Such a measure, he said, could have also reduced what the trash authority might have earned.
Yet due to mere circumstance of birth, I knew my son would have many more opportunities in life, while this mother and her child would struggle to survive each day to the next.
But according to the 2D empiricist, you can test whether your implicit understanding of 'water' is structured in the relevant way by considering possible situations in two different roles: as your actual environment or as a mere counterfactual circumstance of evaluation (Jackson 1998a, ch. 2).
In such circumstances, mere monogamy surely cannot bear so much weight.
In a number of circumstances, mere recognition-based tracking during exposure to Clara will not provide Charles with adequate sensitivity, because the similarity between the faces and voices of twins can induce considerable confusion (e.g., Sæther and Laeng 2008).
The mental landscapes Eck's characters inhabit are mostly two-dimensional, and the reader keeps hoping to see both the Americans and the Somalis as more than mere victims of circumstance.
I know what lured him on: first, the idea of the military man, his manners as buffed as his boots, both obeying and toying with the codes of his livelihood; second, the besotted woman — what used to be known as a silly goose — who is never permitted, thanks to a sympathetic camera, to shrink into a mere victim of circumstance.
