Zawahiri envisioned not merely the removal of the head of state but a complete overthrow of the existing order.
The subway, the planned linchpin of the system, has since been mired in controversy, delays and cost overruns and is the subject of a November ballot initiative that would bar use of sales tax revenues for its expansion beyond what Bradley envisioned as merely its first leg--a segment from downtown to North Hollywood.
One of the problems was that Morgan tried to micromanage the process, detailing it step-by-step, envisioning Carlson as merely the hands of the operation.
To reduce the urban future to the technical or economic, to envision future urban spaces merely as enablers of greater efficiencies means reducing society to technique (Ellul, 1973).
"A Small Act" would have been a pretty good documentary even if things had merely gone the way the filmmakers probably envisioned at the start of the project.
To make the subtraction as dramatic as possible and to ensure that it wouldn't seem inadvertent, the title wasn't merely edited out; rather, the development team envisioned a hole punched in the card where the title previously appeared.
The envisioned status elevation did not merely serve a decorative purpose, but was regarded a necessity to prevail in political competition.
This wasn't merely the Senate being what the Founding Fathers envisioned: the "cooling saucer" for the hot coffee of legislative emotion.
While he did not envision that the Senate would serve merely as a White House rubber stamp, or totally eschew political tugs, he assumed the chamber would consider nominees on their merits.
Nolan's inability to envision any "reasonable" use for that money merely betrays his lack of imagination.
If elections were a merely a matter of statistical probability, one way to envision those odds is picturing four poker chips in a pouch: three blues for Clinton, and one red for Trump.
