Sentence examples for a mere preparation from inspiring English sources

In most religions this body, this home, is always temporary, a mere preparation for another more permanent home.

Although the householder was often extolled some authorities, regarding studentship a mere preparation for this ashrama, went so far as to brand all other stages inferior there were always people who became wandering ascetics immediately after studentship.

Elsewhere he throws in a tightly wound traveling double air turn (double assemblé) as a mere preparation to some phrases in which he partners Ms. Reyes, a dancer who has never looked more nuanced or spontaneous than here.

Unlike the law of some continental European countries, no defense has traditionally been granted to an offender who voluntarily desists from committing the intended harm after that person's conduct has reached a point beyond mere preparation.

While ordinarily mere preparation to commit an offense is not punishable, an exception may perhaps be justified by the seriousness of the consequences of an executed threat on the President's life".

Thus, the mere preparation of action has a structuring effect on somatosensory perception, even when the motor command is not actually executed.

Larval life as complex as this is not mere preparation for adult life; rather, the adult stage is a revitalizing and distributory stage for the larval one.

The line between acts of mere preparation and attempt is difficult to draw in many cases.

Arguably, it's just one more way for capitalism to colonise sleep: not by eroding it, but by redefining it as mere preparation for more work.

You, as the branded, allegedly patent-protected incumbent, sue, alleging that the generic would-be entrant's mere preparation to enter is patent infringement.

One day, presumably, everything that has happened in the last 40 years will look like early throat-clearings — mere preparations for whatever the internet is destined to become.