The primary realization of understanding is as skilled activity in the domain of the ready-to-hand, but it can be manifested as interpretation, when Dasein explicitly takes something as something (e.g., in cases of disturbance), and also as linguistic assertion, when Dasein uses language to attribute a definite character to an entity as a mere present-at-hand object.
But the climate of hostility and fear their passage generates can make life unpleasant for gay men and women, and their mere existence presents opportunities for extortion and blackmail.
But it is unclear why the lapse of a mere law presents any obstacle to an administration that has argued that it has the right under the Constitution to wiretap suspects for national security purposes without first getting a warrant.
But it's highly unlikely I'm going to be told I'm not American, or picked up by ICE and held in detention until I'm deported, or beaten or executed by police who decide my mere existence presents a threat to their safety, or denied the right to make my own decisions about my own medical care.
On the other hand, historian Alex Woolf has suggested that the expedition originally may only have been intended for Orkney, and that in search for plunder it was followed by an expedition into the Irish Sea that by mere luck presented Magnus with the opportunity of raiding with Earl Ælfgar.
Our data indicate that the prognostic value of SSEP after cardiac arrest extends beyond a mere absent-present dichotomy.
Oh, the problems a mere fork can present.
Over all, however, these frustrations present mere skirmishes in a global war that Murdoch is winning.
This book was published at Faber for £2 precisely in 1971, when £2 was still £2, and not the present mere frippery.
It has many hundreds of drill rigs available to go after shale gas, compared with Europe's mere handful at present.
The most arrogant among them would not, under the assumption that there is nothing that people who work in the industry have not thought of that mere customers could present to them.
