Or one could suggest that, even if all creatures possessing states that occupy (for example) the pain role are not literally in the same mental state, they nonetheless share a closely related higher-level property (call it, following Lewis 1966 (note 6), "the attribute of having pain").
As time proceeds, hypothetical people may change the compartment that they occupy, for example, proceeding from being uninfected to having a primary HIV infection to having a chronic HIV infection to death.
The Soviets seized art that the Nazis had stolen from occupied countries, for example, and then returned it to the East German government.
In this study it was assumed that a Lorenz curve would describe the relationship between the proportion of roundwood production from planted forests in a country and the proportion of forest area occupied (see for example Gastwirth, 1972): L ( F ) = F 1 - 1 α (5).
Its significance dawns on you with the leisureliness of shock, in the state of mind that occupies, for example, the moment — a foretaste of eternity — after you have slipped on an icy sidewalk and before you hit the ground.
Yet last week's gathering, attended by Britain's Lord Francis Maudede, barely registered with the world's angry young radicals, who have turned their attention to bashing bankers – through the Occupy movement, for example.
It seems like the rest of the country is hell-bent—I think back to the Occupy movement, for example, and the May Day demonstration that so many police departments seem to outdo themselves in not paying attention to the lessons of WTO.
Take, for example, the funky, circular control panel occupying the center of the dashboard.
When the living room is occupied for a relaxing time, for example a nap, consider putting on some beach sounds.
These strategies can also vary amongst closely related halophytes and among halophytes that occupy similar habitats, for example the differential presence of succulence among closely related chenopods [ 7] or salt glands among phylogenetically diverse mangrove species [ 11].
Each of us occupies various roles; for example, I am my mother's daughter, my brother's sister, a university professor, a U.S. citizen, a resident of Iowa, etc.
