This complicates matters, because the mere fact of being in a hospital affects a patient's mood and behaviour.
Instead of being mere hired talent, Ms Winfrey owned her show, the company producing it, the studio where it was recorded, and roughly 2m share options in King World, her distributor.
And this is largely due to the fact that the NCAA realized that people were willing to pay premium prices to sit in nose-bleed seats of large stadiums for the mere privilege of being present during the Final Four.
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Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that played a pivotal role in linking East and West, intermittently bringing together nomads and city dwellers, pastoral peoples and farmers, merchants and monks, and soldiers and pilgrims.
But its significance is deeper and wider than that of being a mere historical milestone.
Being a mere CPA, with a fondness for American history, I was really glad to see somebody a lot smarter than me make the conservative case against the Defense of Marriage Act.
In Washington, Clintonistas dream about the Bush presidency being a mere interregnum between Bill and Hillary, but out in the states it is not so much an interregnum as an optical illusion.
Those trades never panned out, and mere months away from being able to opt-out of his deal with the Magic and reach free agency, Howard inexplicably opted to extend his contract by one year.
Once it is open, the organisation aims to transform itself from being a mere museum to becoming an African cultural centre, bringing together under one roof 18 other Africa-themed organisations offering dance, theatre and music.
But this is a small problem compared with the opportunities open to Magna at a time when even General Motors is moving away from integrated production toward being a mere assembler and marketer of cars (see p.36).
Europe's smaller stock exchanges will not relish being treated as mere appendages to the big two.
Earlier this year Mr Mbeki dismissed the Transparency International corruption rankings for being based on mere perceptions.
Members of Iraq's 25-strong Governing Council, appointed by the Americans after the invasion, fear they are being reduced to mere advisers.
These attempt to capture well-being beyond a mere command of economic resources.
In fact, Govtrack.us, which researches and follows legislation in Congress and the state legislatures, gives the bill a mere 2% chance of being made law.
Already Nintendo and Sony stock has risen in Japan with mere talk about the ban being eliminated, and it would surely be a huge boon to both if the law was in fact reversed.
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And a drug that manages to makes it into human trials has a mere 8% chance of being approved by the FDA. Contra Gladwell, however, recent history shows that talent, intelligence, and analytical prowess are just as important, if not more so, in the development of successful new medicines.
The British government explains this by referring to the American constitution, which protects American citizens from being extradited on the mere say-so of a foreign government.
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Even though it was a mummy cut, I found that the Horsethief was surprisingly roomy, in addition to being extremely lightweight at a mere 22 ounces.
Yet despite its being nearer the sun, the weather on Uranus seems less violent than that on Neptune, with the clouds being swept around at a mere 500 kph.
Open interest of a mere 300 lots confirms that new positions are being taken.
The children were driven for around half a mile before being abandoned at the roadside in Mere Road.
Are doomsday scenarios like those being spun around the Maya calendar mere entertainment or a dangerous distraction from real-world problems?
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They are also being positioned as far more than just mere gaming machines as both Sony and Microsoft continue to vie for control of the digital living room.
Criticisms of Obama are dismissed as mere racism yet the Tea Party is smeared for being mostly white even as they powered numerous minority candidates to office.
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With today's LG Spirit 4G launch, MetroPCS continues to expand its LTE-at-a-bargain ideals, announcing a smartphone that carries some pretty decent specs for being contract-free and costing a mere 269 bucks.
Just the mere label of sex offender disqualifies a person from being eligible for gainful employment in 95% of all workk force enviornments due to the need for that person to have interaction with the public.
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According to the National Weather Service, your chance of being hit by lightning this year is a mere 1 in 1 million.
No bare feet -- It should go without saying that being cooped up on an airplane with others mere inches from you is painful enough with everyone clothed.
What are being compared are thus not whole prints, but mere fragments.
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