Sentence examples for a mere group from inspiring English sources

It hasn't translated into scintillating soccer, but by grinding out results against Pachuca and Alajuelense, Montreal have shown the bite that comes with becoming a team, not a mere group of individuals.

Over about 15 years, what began as a mere group meal has evolved into a cherished ritual, a feast during which we stop just short of chucking bones over our shoulders to the dogs.

While JAI shares Isis' aspirations for a caliphate, it rejects Isis' claim to represent an actual state rather than a mere group.

On the other hand, sharing qualitative characteristics could motivate people not only to be a part of a mere group but also to be a part of a collective agent and, figuratively speaking, to amplify this agent's voice.

A string of senior party figures – including Tony Blair, Neil Kinnock, Jack Straw, Gordon Brown, David Blunkett and David Miliband – have issued warnings that a Corbyn win would risk turning the party into a mere pressure group.

As Labour members and supporters receive their ballot papers, a string of warnings have emerged that a Corbyn victory could split the party or turn it into a mere pressure group.

A string of warnings that a Corbyn victory could split the party or turn it into a mere pressure group have emerged in recent days from former Labour politicians including Tony Blair, Neil Kinnock, Jack Straw, Gordon Brown, and – mostly recently – David Miliband.

As well as no longer being quite so broke, the Tories are now more than a mere pressure group for the disgruntled: they are quite likely to form the next government.

(Indeed, the institute is more than a mere lobbying group; in the recent Greek debt negotiations, it was in charge of coordinating the terms proposed by private-sector banks for their involvement in the debt restructuring).

If we harness this data in a way that serves rather than betrays the people who provided it, work will become more authentic and relevant, both to the individual as well as to the culture at large because it is connected to what people care about, what they are doing and what they are sharing – not what a mere focus group says is important or real or true.

Few in the media even recognize how they are being manipulated and spun on this war by an organ of state power, not a mere advocacy group.