Sentence examples for a mere passage from inspiring English sources

Notably, Beringia initially appeared in the literature as a mere passage corridor connecting Asia and America, but based on South Amerindian HVS-I sequence variability, Bonatto and Salzano (1997a, b) suggested that probably the migrants who had come from Asia remained there long enough for new genetic variants to arise.

In contrast our task did not present a mere passage of time (i.e. passive waiting), but an active time estimation, which might explain the differences.

The objection that Taylor himself suggests is the Aristotelian one: we reject presupposition 1 (and also, presupposition 6, since we embrace the idea that a proposition may fail to be either true or false at one time and come to be true or false later, as a result of the mere passage of time).

That decline has long been in motion, the result of a dwindling economy and the mere passage of time: after twelve years in power, including two terms in office, she cannot run again for the Presidency until 2019.

By relying on a technicality that hinges on the mere passage of time, it's almost as if the suspect is admitting he did it.

The mere passage of time is giving them a shared history.

The good professor seems to feel otherwise; as though the mere passage of time is equivalent to a good and necessary dose of amnesia.

It is hard to avoid the inference here that the mere passage of time itself is acting as a conditioned stimulus: that the rats, to put it in more anthropocentric terms, are successfully estimating intervals of time.

These organizations warn that unless the state goes beyond the mere passage of laws, change will be very slow.

Given this knowledge, the mere passage of time may spur our confidence, though no formal statistical analysis can prove it.

This immunity applies only to the mere passage of the aircraft and does not extend to damage caused by it or to other encroachments on the use or enjoyment of the land, such as excessively low flights.