Sentence examples for a mere condition from inspiring English sources

If a forest is destroyed by fire, the presence of oxygen would be cited as a mere condition of the forest's destruction.

4. In FE, he describes justice as a situational good: it does not involve 'activities or enjoyments resident in individuals, but would involve relations between individuals' (FE 286). 5. Ross notes that as a mere condition of the intellect knowledge is not better than pleasure.

For example, the cause of a great famine in India may be identified by an Indian farmer as the drought, but the World Food Authority may identify the Indian government's failure to build up reserves as the cause, and the drought as a mere condition.

At its most ruthlessly reductive, we are left with what Truman Capote - who had first-hand experience of Avedon's working methods - called "the mere condition of a face".

Pollack said that default "is not a mere 'technical' condition, but rather a real and painful event that will hurt real people," including Argentine citizens, exchange bondholders and the holdout investors.

Erroneous answers meeting the aforementioned conditions are distinct from those selected at random based on the mere condition that they differ from the correct one.

As Hart and Honore put it: "The contrast of cause with mere conditions is an inseparable feature of all causal thinking, and constitutes as much the meaning of causal expressions as the implicit reference to generalizations does".

In blind signal processing, neither a reference signal nor any prior information regarding the channel is provided, so the algorithms proposed in this field use separation criteria that are actually mere conditions imposed on the output streams.

Hyperchloremia has been shown to be negatively associated with mortality or kidney failure in certain subgroups of patients [1 3], although it is difficult to prove that it is an independent factor contributing to outcome rather than a mere marker of specific conditions or severity of illness [4, 5].

A mere 6,000 people with the condition have surgery at the moment and the numbers have dropped from 8,800 three years ago as the NHS has comes under increasing financial pressure.

But Hecht's aim is to show that as suicide was secularised, it became too easy – a mere medical and therefore solipsistic condition which took no account of humans as members of a larger (caring) community.