Sentence examples for a mere ideal from inspiring English sources

Many philosophers (including, we suspect, Nerlich 1994 and Earman 1989) would be happy to acknowledge the Mach-friendly status of our spacetime, and argue nevertheless that we should understand that spacetime as a real thing, more like a substance than a mere ideal construct of the mind as Leibniz insisted.

These approaches are to be considered as mere ideals which help to define and analyze the forms of representation applied in a respective PIA.

With the UN Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), inclusion is no longer a mere desirable and ideal situation, but a requirement of international law.

And whereas employers offering jobs have said that job applicants are too choosy and applicants looking for positions claim that employers are too demanding, the actual problem could be more complex than a mere clash of ideals and expectations.

Measuring a mere 122 x 116mm, it's ideal to stuff in your laptop case to take to that next meeting.

Conversely, the Australian Institute of Sport youth product was occasionally schooled by experienced opposition and averaged a mere 2.4 assists per game – far from ideal for a pass-first point guard.

Wuwei is neither an ideal of absolute inaction nor a mere "not-overdoing".

This suggests that the ideals of legality are not a mere charade but are instantiated in the law, if only in a partial and incomplete form.

But a mere 3.1% of Flemish voters say he is their ideal choice.

For me education is not some lofty ideal reserved for scholarly debate or a mere talking point for political exploitation, it is the difference between life and death'.

And under ideal conditions, earthworms are believed to eat and digest their entire weight in castings in a mere 24 hours.