One day, prominent conservatives will offer not merely new foreign policies for the post-Bush era, but a new style of foreign policy argument: lighter on character attacks and unsubstantiated generalizations, heavier on careful reasoning and empirical evidence.
It demonstrates the iniquities wrought by slavery, racism and institutionalised violence and shows that learning, music and poetry have the potential to offer not merely escapism, but a bridge towards dignity in the most undignified of situations.
Schwartz says the key is that the site offered not merely "goofy humor," but empathy: Robe Guy is a friendly Everyman, and if he's comfortable with this all-over-shaving thing, shouldn't you be? Plus, she suggests, an online campaign has less chance of reaching people who might be indifferent to it — or maybe even annoyed or offended by it — than a television spot would.
The same land could be offered not merely to a few individuals but to those groups that could organize themselves into housing cooperatives.
Socrates has offered not merely to demonstrate that it is always better to be just than unjust but to persuade Glaucon and Adeimantus (but especially Glaucon: see, e.g., 327a, 357a-b, 368c) of this claim.
First, a full account of Voltaire's life is offered, not merely as background context for his philosophical work, but as an argument about the way that his particular career produced his particular contributions to European philosophy.
In particular Birkbeck, with its very special remit and offer, must not merely survive, it must flourish, and in the public domain.
What Peale offered was not merely spiritual counselling (over the years, plenty of other preachers had already done that), but "a system of simple procedures" that would generate untold "peace of mind, improved health and a never-ceasing flow of energy".
Furthermore, we surely believe that what we offer is not merely a successful model but the only successful model for human society.
Born of the technological marriage of modern cameras and television monitors, these films are gorgeous from first to last; it's hard not to regard the images they offer -- not merely their content, but also the fact that anyone managed to take them in the first place -- as something like miraculous.
