Various theories have been adduced for this gesture: genuine amity, a vestige of courtliness, too much lunch, or the possibility that the President is afraid of stairs.
The North, by contrast, could keep alive the prospect of hostilities with Britain; more than once, when Washington thought London was tilting too much toward Richmond, the possibility of war with Britain felt palpably real.
Considering these results, we examined different cutoff points that would increase the specificity without lowering the sensitivity of Step 1 tests too much, and assessed the possibility of simplification of the Step 2 tests to shorten administration time.
I try not to think too much about the other possibilities.
But the inverse possibility — that too much thinking might impair physical performance — has received far less attention.
Her eyes have that weary look of someone who has lived through too much to believe in the possibility of things going in her favour.
There's something missing: the question of whether the American system, by its nature, resists the possibility of too much leisure, even if that's what people actually want, and even if they have the means to achieve it.
And if we cannot--if the possibility is too much to bear--then our only option is to start thinking about getting rid of things like space shuttles altogether.
I thought it might happen and that there was a possibility that too much attention would be turned on Hunt, so I took considerable steps to ensure that the story moved on to the bigger picture.
In my view, the real criticism of capitalism that is implied by the criticism of Mr. Romney and Bain is that in worshiping efficiency so single-mindedly, it has ignored the possibility that too much efficiency — too little friction — might be a bad thing.
