Sentence examples for a mere device for from inspiring English sources
Although the Quartet's report briefly mentions the importance of the Arab Peace Initiative (API), in my view, the API should not be considered as a mere device for directing the negotiating process, but rather as the central framework for achieving a comprehensive peace.
What he did was a mere device to evade the statutes enacted by Vermont for the purpose of protecting its people against the evils confessedly resulting from the sale of intoxicating liquors.
Mr. Redmayne, who last month won the Olivier Award (the British version of the Tony) for his performance, keeps his character from ever seeming like a mere device.
You could learn a lot about things you might never thought would interest you, but which actually do". "As Watkins makes clear in Trees in Art, especially after Claude and the rise of landscape in eighteenth-century Rome, trees often became mere devices for framing views.
In West's hands this theme becomes a mere framing device for a deeper conflict, one in which the need for happiness is set against the prerogatives of truth, the whim of fantasy against the realm of public facts.
Turkey is generally gluten-free, but as many diners will tell you, the turkey is often a mere delivery device for dishes like gravy that frequently have wheat — the main food in our diets that contains gluten.
From this perspective, the portal page now acts as a mere conduit for portlets.
Greubel Forsey makes a mere 100, one for each employee.
"Magnitogorsk was no mere business for generating profits; it was a device for transforming the country: its geography, its industry, and above all its people," historian Stephen Kotkin writes in his book Magnetic Mountain.
