Negro citizens, North and South, who saw in the Thirteenth Amendment a promise of freedom freedom to "go and come at pleasure" and to "buy and sell when they please"—would be left with "a mere paper guarantee" if Congress were powerless to assure that a dollar in the hands of a Negro will purchase the same thing as a dollar in the hands of a white man.
The New York Racing Association's jockeys are guaranteed a mere hundred dollars per race for taking part in what is one of the most dangerous of professional sports.
Democracy, which is rule by the people (demos means "people"), by a mere majority, has never guaranteed citizens a rational, rights-respecting governance.
Not that Douglas, in his movies, was a mere bully; that is no guarantee of fame.
A past history of success in case management implementation along the Andalusian Health Care System for people with home care needs, does not guarantee that a mere extension of services for people with chronic conditions will achieve in the same direction.
In the year to September, a mere $9.3 billion of loans were guaranteed by the Small Business Administration, a government agency.Not everyone thinks credit is so constrained.
Even after the settlement, guaranteeing prisoners a mere one hour per day outside their cells is hardly lenient, only justifiable if a prisoner is an extreme risk to staff or other inmates.
Because imprisonment is not noticeably a deterrent to crime, the Home Office or Ministry of the Interior introduces a form of aversion therapy guaranteed, in a mere two weeks, to eliminate criminal propensities forever.
Weapons brandished by the warring families are sticks of the sort that can break your bones, with attachable spears to guarantee more than a mere fracture.
I also queried the surveyor about whether a mere separation would be sufficient to guarantee me a commute-free existence, but by then, it seemed, I was taking up her time — her very important surveyor time — and she had to get off the phone.
