Sentence examples for possibility of empty from inspiring English sources

Far fewer fans than expected have arrived in Moscow for tonight's Champions League final, Russian officials admitted today, raising the possibility of empty seats in the stadium when Manchester United play Chelsea.

One might reply that persons' interest in having shared moral and political norms excludes a priori the possibility of an empty "eligible set" of justified proposals.

Thomas Baldwin (1996) reinforces the possibility of an empty world by refining the following thought experiment: Imagine a world in which there are only finitely many objects.

Even in his supposed blood-and-spices phase, he was a restless experimenter who saw the possibilities of "the empty space".

In order to overcome the possibility of situations with empty lower approximations, the calculation of cluster centres can be modified so that for empty lower approximations, the cluster centre is calculated as the average of samples in the upper approximation or by ensuring that each lower approximation has at least one member.

Such elements could make the proposal more attractive to investors skittish about the possibility of studios sitting empty between productions.

Yet each also expressed surprise that Mr. Jungwirth was raising the possibility of a future empty theater while "Spider-Man" was struggling with a two-week delay in preview performances.

Given a (plausible) Eleatic principle, therefore, the possibility of piling is empty.

In examining the possibilities for a conference championship game, the university presidents considered the possibility of a half-empty N.F.L. stadium at a neutral site — say Stanford versus Utah in Glendale, Ariz.

It takes into account the requirements of railcar owners in terms of their cars application, the operating work level of railroad stations of the transportation node and the possibility of adding the groups of empty railcars to the transfer trains, clean-up trains and industrial railway trains operating on a tight schedule.

And a possible world that appears this way to its inhabitants is surely a world in which those inhabitants have some reason to take seriously the possibility that there are periods of empty time in their world, that they know when those periods occur, and even that they know exactly how long the periods of empty time last.