"Far from being the work of mere leeches intent on sucking the life's blood out of indebted families or gambling with the savings of widows and orphans, financial innovation has been an indispensable factor in man's advance from wretched subsistence to the giddy heights of material prosperity that so many people know today," argued Ferguson in The Ascent of Money.
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Berlusconi produced a mere letter of intent to win over fellow leaders at the G20 last week, labour reform will depend on talks with unions and a last-minute plan for a sell off of state farmland worth €6bn was reported on Sunday.
For example, Alexander and Cook (1979) showed that the mere expression of intent by children can be volatile over time.
Needless to say, the archeologist's discovery about the Welsh bluestones was quickly met with skepticism among some geologists, who insist that it is not human intent but mere glacial action that accounts for Stonehenge's relocation.
Of course, if the act is necessarily arbitrary and therefore unconstitutional, mere declarations of good intent cannot save it, but it must be presumed to have been passed by the legislative branch of the state government in good faith, and for the purpose of reaching the desired end.
But real, profound change, the kind to reset the club as one with ambition to believe in, the kind that creates a team resolve that does not look as if it is made of straw ready to be obliterated by a mere puff of wolfish intent from any opponent, remains a long shot.
These include granting authorities access to computers of those not even suspected of a crime, allowing private correspondence to be retained for up to two years, stripping citizens of their passports on mere suspicion of criminal intent and the reversal of the centuries-old presumption of innocence.
"Where we have inadvertently killed civilians, and although clearly that was not our intent, the mere fact it was happening was working against us".
