Sentence examples for a mere paper from inspiring English sources

Its overly optimistic 18-month Syrian transition road map is a mere paper trail so far.

I think I have some idea why in their case what started as a mere paper loss ramified into something much worse.

It would also need completely new engines, rather than adapted existing ones, in order to be sufficiently light and economical.The delay has served to feed the scepticism of those in the industry who think that the Sonic Cruiser is a mere "paper aeroplane", whose launch had more to do with public relations than with aerodynamics.

Some might shrug all this talk off as a mere paper exercise.

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.

Writer goes on to demonstrate that all this is a mere papering over, that the fissures opened in the late sixties have not been healed and may be irreparable.

One got the sense though, over the years, that Baraka's ego was at odds with his writing; that the early success of his poetry and plays irked him because he wanted the audience to see him, to connect with what he had to say on a more visceral level than mere paper and pencil could convey.

In the architectural world, a common insult is to denigrate a project — even a person's entire professional output — as being mere "paper architecture," just renderings and spatial fairy tales.

Perhaps the most affecting responses will be those that have seemed simply to rise up from the city's streets, like a series of Jacob Lawrence-inspired collages, to be shown publicly for the first time, created by a group of Upper West Side students who experienced the disaster on their first day of eighth grade and reached out for mere paper and glue as a way to rebuild their crumbled city.

Under the conditions prevailing, it provides mere paper security, and, in addition, it promotes a completely unjustified impression that safe limits have been established and are being adhered to.

Real treasure for mere paper -- was that unfair?