Sentence examples for a mere idea of from inspiring English sources

But malaria (qua parasitic infection) itself is very different from a mere idea of malaria.

In the last few years, accountable care organizations have represented a little revolution of their own, moving from being a mere idea to covering millions of Medicare and privately insured patients.

Half a century later, the mere idea of neatly circumscribing black history into a slender encyclopedia or one month of the year — the shortest one, I might add — is quaint.

This movement, opposed to the very existence of a Jewish state and to the mere idea of a peaceful co-existence between Israel and the Palestinians, makes heavy use of the South African experience and narrative in order to smear Israel's reputation by employing simplistic portrayal of the current situation.

In fact, we have a heightened annoyance of others, an anxiety around the mere idea of social activity.

Thus a gathering of people who knew one another because of music could take on a power beyond the mere idea of music as recreation or entertainment.

Their infamous reputation is the reason that, through most of this country's history, the mere idea of a man with such a professional background running for governor would have been risible.

In 1968, the mere idea of a woman being raped by a creature from hell so that a coven of witches could steal her baby and raise it as the anti-Christ would be inducive of shudders.

Right now, of course, the mere idea of a secondary market for tokenized securities feels like a very distant possibility.

But the mere idea of a Bill Clinton candidate really does fuel the image machine.

The smallest faults are here severely punished; the mere idea of a crime is looked upon with as much horror as the crime itself.