Sentence examples for a mere scrap from inspiring English sources

And the only thing close to a document dump -- the lurid signature event of the long Presidential inquiry -- was a mere scrap of campaign E-mail from the Democrats' health care arsenal, somehow purloined by Republicans.

In the event of the government being unable to fulfill its commitment, the opposition is able to call the constitution a mere scrap of paper and to demand its improvement or even its complete replacement.

"The employment contract in many factories here is a mere scrap of paper," says Liu Kaiming, director of the Institute of Contemporary Observation, a labor rights group in Shenzhen.

It pays to be cautious: a mere scrap is all that's left of the Coronation Carpet's mate, on display at Berlin's Museum of Islamic Art.

The 22.5 million stop requests Catalog Choice has processed over the past five years are a mere scrap of the some 85 billion pieces of junk mail that landed in American mailboxes in 2011.

Neither can I believe that the mere accident of birth in a certain country or the mere scrap of a citizen's paper constitutes the love of country.

As before, the Council members could squabble over leftovers - mere scraps in a $21 billion budget - but the statutory budget deadline forced the inevitable compromises.

Neither was a sure thing, but these are mere scraps of victory, indeed.

The remainder of the top five films will be left to skirmish over mere scraps, led by Sony's ensemble hit "Think Like a Man" at just under $10 million in its third weekend out.

Less than hoped for, perhaps, but more than anticipated: solid concentrations of the early sculptures and the later paintings; mere scraps of the great environments that came between.

For its part, Pakistan is holding on to tens of thousands of documents taken from the Abbottabad house, although the Pakistani security official described these as mere "scraps" compared with the vast amount of information held by the US.