After a while, death becomes a mere rising statistic as the conflict develops into another chronic case of mass murder.
So a mere 65% rise, and I would not wish to diminish the pain and distress that the recession inflicts on Wantage.
The better than expected GDP reading (analysts were on average anticipating a mere 0.1% rise) means ECB looks even less likely to announce any further measures to boost growth until it can assess the impact of the additional €1 trillion of liquidity it already plans to inject into the economy.
A year earlier it showed a mere 1% rise.
Yet, after four consecutive years of doubling, industrywide sales will cool to a mere 25% rise in 2004, says Dennis Conforto, chairman of A-Z Media Group of Carlsbad, Calif.
The omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 4818), which combines what are normally nine individual spending bills into a single measure, meets the Bush Administration's goal of holding discretionary spending not related to defense and homeland security to a mere 1% rise over 2004.
A 30%to50%0% fall in profits on a mere 3% rise in the RMB (already an admission that they compete only on price), says their margins are unhealthy even with the benefit of a cheap RMB.
But over that period the number of sex crimes labelled as mere misdemeanors rose by 6%.
In this account, Voltaire and Rousseau are mere vapor, rising from a steam engine as it races forward.
Accordingly, if you look at the current south London skyline, the ludicrously overpowering, overscaled, overpriced Shard is a skyscraper in its purest form; the Guy's hospital tower, next to it, is a mere high-rise.
