It may, and in fact often does, refer to a merely notional entity the image which acculturated man forms of himself, when he starts to philosophize.
An attempt to draft a law outlawing racial discrimination has become a farcical exercise as too many exemptions have been inserted, reducing it to a merely symbolic document.N.
Not because he convinced her that Iraq had posed an imminent threat — she didn't say whether she thinks this or not — but because, under pressure, he demonstrated a cumulative, as opposed to a merely declarative, thought process.
"As with every respectable totalitarian regime, industrialists will negotiate directly with the government, not the unions, which will be reduced to a merely decorative role," the independent daily TalCual said in an editorial.
IT is unfortunate that Mr. Parrott, in his book, should appeal not to such musical value but instead to a merely reproductive correctness, writing that his is "the mode of performance which... best reflects Bach's own practice".
throughout pregnancy," Akron I, supra, at 461 (emphasis added); see also Ashcroft, supra, at 505 (O'Connor, J., concurring in judgment in part and dissenting in part); Thornburgh, supra, at 828 (O'Connor, J., dissenting); instead, the State's interest in unborn human life is stealthily downgraded to a merely "substantial" or "profound" interest, ante, at 34, 36.
You will see what serious government can do, as opposed to what a merely popular government just promises".
The Kessler syndrome has long since ceased to be a merely theoretical doomsday scenario.
To correct a merely hypoxemia-dependent decline in the ScO2, we obtained the baseline value on the day before surgery in awake patients after application of supplemental oxygen.
It also further curtailed the powers and duties of the king to a point merely ceremonial.
Specifically, survey respondents occasionally select the incorrect response to a question merely by accident.
