Sentence examples for mere possibility that from inspiring English sources

But they need to be set against the fact — not the mere possibility — that high unemployment is inflicting tremendous cumulative damage as we speak.

She said that confusion over ballot formats and the "mere possibility" that the outcome would be affected were not adequate to justify manual recounts, or more time.

In the end it is love — its absence, its pursuit, its mere possibility — that is the final ambiguity in the world of Otto Preminger, a world that continues to fascinate and unsettle.

The facts do not show that Kelly dominated the other seven Board members, and, without more, the fact (or mere possibility) that one of eight Board members is not independent or disinterested does not affect the independence of the Board as a whole.

She defended her decision on the grounds that only proof of fraud, noncompliance with election procedures or a natural disaster could justify accepting late returns -- not confusion over a ballot format, voter error or the "mere possibility" that the outcome of an election could be affected.

Does the mere possibility that a phone call or e-mail will soon arrive drain your brain power?

But he did not allow the merest possibility that a connection existed between a millennia of church-based hostility towards Judaism and the Nazi assault on the Jews.

Not surprisingly, the merest possibility that a yeti-like beast may be living in the jungles of India has triggered a huge buzz in the world of cryptozoology, the usually derided study of uncatalogued creatures.

You might be blessed/cursed (delete as appropriate) with a strong tolerance, or you could be one of those people who finds their eyes rolling back into the back and beyond of their skull at the merest possibility that they might be in the vicinity of some form of narcotic.

Utah has the highest fertility rate in the nation; we need not worry about the mere possibility of that slowing a bit.

Rather, the crucial claim is that, even if he did exist, it would remain a mere epistemological possibility that he would have genuine intentionality.