Sentence examples for a mere occasion from inspiring English sources
The assumed dominance and efficacy of divine causation made the human mind a mere occasion on which appropriate motions are triggered in the body, and motions in the body (such as those associated with sensations) became the occasions on which thoughts are caused in the mind.
For Malebranche, even the internal states of a creature are mere occasions for God to bring about the relevant subsequent states.
Having been warned that he risked blindness, Saddler closed a 12-year career in which he lost on a mere 16 occasions, with two draws.
More startling, however, is the fact that on two occasions, a mere 16 points separated the top and bottom positions.
Matuidi would have been a mere pup on the earlier occasion, just 7 at the time.
It is not often that Schumann's Dichterliebe is programmed as a mere hors d'oeuvre; on this occasion, it constituted a spellbinding first half before Butterworth's settings of Housman's A Shropshire Lad and some 15 Poulenc gems.
Why should a mere thought, as opposed to a belief, be something that occasions an emotional response from us?
It offers a mere 34 works; most of them are site-specific works made especially for the occasion.
A mere chardonnay, perhaps.
