Sentence examples for a mere phrase from inspiring English sources

Even a sentence, a mere phrase will do".

While for many other fields of research still a mere phrase, interdisciplinarity is one of the true challenges for bioinformatics.

For they know that, too often, "innocent until proven guilty" is a mere phrase and not a reality.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — At a time when the mere phrase "high-frequency trading" makes some investors queasy, Brazil's stock exchange is putting out the digital welcome mat.

Their ideas were, in his view, "utterly crude and unintelligent," but their character moved him: "The brotherhood of man is no mere phrase with them, but a fact of life, and the nobility of man shines upon us from their work-hardened bodies," he wrote in his so-called "Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844" (written in 1844; Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 [1959]).

The marketplace in ideas is no mere phrase to Mr. Posner, an alarmingly prolific federal judge, author and scholar who has decided that the traffic in opinions can be usefully described in economic terms, with numerical values assigned to dozens of opinion-mongers who offer their wares in the great media bazaar.

But the mere phrase "child star" brings with it potentially unhelpful connotations for a low-budget British film predicated on confronting the realities that Love Story left out.

Thanks to this summer's town-hall-style meetings, the mere phrase "town hall" now evokes images of angry citizens, many of them older, rising up against a proposed overhaul of the health care system.

The mere phrase "bluffin' with my muffin" shows how high Gaga set the bar, and how resoundingly inevitable it is that The Joy Of Concrete will ever reach such heights.

The mere phrase "middle class" — that most anodyne of demographic terms, the category to which half of all Americans polled identify, and into which Mitt Romney is always trying to shoehorn very, very wealthy people like himself — emerged, in Kyl's evocation, as some kind of crazy-lefty bumper-sticker slogan.

The mere phrase "middle class"—that most anodyne of demographic terms, the category to which half of all Americans polled identify, and into which Mitt Romney is always trying to shoehorn very, very wealthy people like himself emerged, in Kyl's evocation, as some kind of crazy-lefty bumper-sticker slogan.