In "Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words," Douglas L. Wilson worries his way through the possibility, preserved in one of the drafts, that Lincoln referred not to "government of the people, by the people," etc., but to "this government of the people, by the people," etc., deliberately circumscribing the meaning.
They also said their study was the first to analyze the genetics of a plant pathogen by extracting DNA from dried plant samples, opening the possibility that preserved collections from other gardens could yield clues to other plant diseases.
Lewis's reply to this is that the de re character of the possibility is preserved by the stipulation that the person who is the cult leader is the counterpart of you, rather than the counterpart of someone else, at an appropriate possible world.
I was ready to accept any possibility that preserved my identity exactly the way it was.
And the possibility of preserving the seven and six of diamonds, giving West a possible winner, was one item in a lively post-mortem.
He was interested in the improvement of agricultural methods, in the possibility of extracting fresh water from salt, in the improvement of medicines and medicinal practice, in the possibility of preserving food by vacuum packing, and in a number of other useful results, actual or potential, of experimental philosophy.
The possibility to preserve reactive groups opens new applications of the poly(ionic liquid)s as reactive blend components.
Those trees are an archive of apple diversity, holding out the possibility of preserving apple genotypes that might otherwise have vanished.
This finding offers the possibility of preserving the colonisation of the intestine with some beneficial lactobacilli during antimicrobial treatment in critically ill patients with health care-associated infections.
"While there are still some aborigines leading tribal lives, the possibility of preserving their civilisation either as a museum piece or in respect to their wishes seems small," Horne wrote in 1964.
If you are feeling similarly overwhelmed by how affected you are by the emotions of others, I'd like to offer another possibility for preserving your well-being: Double down on your capacity for empathy.
