Sentence examples for a mere container from inspiring English sources

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Since the sole specialist spinner will only play if Australia gets a pitch that really turns, logic suggests that the position should go to a genuine wicket-taker, not a mere container.

Applewhite abandoned the metaphor of a butterfly in favor of describing the body as a mere container, a vehicle that souls could enter and exit.

Now, especially in moments of inspiration, it seemed to be a mere container through which the inconceivable nature of the creative force of the cosmos could express itself.

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The inner sleeve and the back were framed in the shape of a floppy disk, a mere data container as it were.

Although Corbyn should resist being beholden to the logic of opinion polling – which sees politics as a series of propositions, and voters as mere containers for those propositions – Lord Ashcroft's findings are unlikely to be ignored.

Though his novels have a hectic energy that seems to break the bounds of literary form and reach strange limbic depths, they also seem like dead ends, mere containers for those intermittent illuminations and shocks.

The complaint is often motivated by the concern that various forms of welfarism treat people as mere containers for well-being, rather than purposeful beings, responsible for their actions and creative in their environments.

Applewhite initially stated that he and his followers would physically ascend to a spaceship, where their bodies would be transformed, but later, he came to believe that their bodies were mere containers of their souls, which would be placed into new bodies.

Construction workers building the container terminal were paid a mere 250 pesos ($10) a month, he says, so the ramshackle town has yet to benefit from the development.

Not a "mere" tweaker.

A mere handful.

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