The phrase "a mere executive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to downplay the significance or authority of someone in an executive position, often implying that they lack influence or importance.
Example: "Despite his title, he was often seen as a mere executive, overshadowed by the more prominent leaders in the company."
Alternatives: "just an executive" or "only an executive".
Some were procedural, including a demand that UID be based on law passed by parliament, not, as now, on a mere executive order.Other worries, such as cost, should abate as the unique identities are tied to bank accounts of welfare recipients, and so help track the flow of public money.
The CIO was going to be more than a mere executive.
While auto company heirs like Bill Ford Bill Ford are known to own sports teams, DeLorean owned a piece of the San Diego Chargers while a mere executive.
He and other critics are on firmer ground, however, when they question HHS's authority to change welfare policy, sweepingly or modestly, through a mere executive-branch memorandum.
When he was appointed editor of the Spectator in 1999 Johnson used to take great delight in saying that his degree in Classics had landed him one of the greatest jobs in journalism while his great rival was a mere PR executive at Carlton Television.
This, in effect, was the fixing of a primary standard, and devolved upon the Secretary of the Treasury the mere executive duty to effectuate the legislative policy declared in the statute.
Cotton's letter, Zarif adds, "in fact undermines the credibility of thousands of such mere executive agreements that have been or will be entered into by the US with various other governments".
WorldCom's chief financial officer, Scott Sullivan, took some $35m; Kenny Harrison, a mere non-executive director of Enron, $75m.High rewards were being enjoyed by more than just pushy parvenus linked to dud companies.
Silicon Valley has several top female executives, notably the Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer and Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, but according to a recent report by the law firm Fenwick & West, women occupy a mere 11 per cent of executive positions.
Of course, a mere quantification of executive orders can't constitute a full-fledged study of the topic, since it does not address the actual content or effects of such orders.
Women hold a mere 17% of executive positions, and less than 5% are C-level.
