Indeed, Dr. Ainley speculates, Adélie penguins face possible extinction not merely by a loss of habitat — but by an unshakable fear of darkness.
Overcoming those limits is the argument for a certain type of affirmative action -- not quotas or preferences, but an active effort to select from the full range of possible candidates, not merely the first evoked set.
As one struggles to sort out and prioritize one's own values, the possible outcomes are not merely undetermined, but also indeterminate: at each stage of the struggle, the possible outcomes have no specific objective probability of occurring.
(The sham-lawsuit theory, however, is not acceptable to all modern scholars, principally because the judgment of ownership was valid against any possible private claimant, not merely against the defendant, as in a true lawsuit).
What made this possible wasn't merely the success of "South Park," the show that really got Comedy Central off the ground and is still its most valuable franchise.
But what makes this possible isn't merely (or even primarily) their at-will employment: it's their longer instructional days and years, airtight cultures, clear and rigorous curricula, and common instructional missions.
Not merely possible, but unstoppable.
Therefore, social change is not merely possible but also inevitable and desirable.
In the absence of codified rules of conduct, it is not merely possible that the rich and powerful will get the better of ordinary citizens.
She makes small talk not merely possible but necessary, allowing consciousness of the conspiracy to sink back down the well and making of the doorway an ordinary door into the next room.
