Sentence examples for a mere state from inspiring English sources

But what's a mere state line in pop-branding cyberspace?

A mere state legislator four years earlier, Obama had already, it appeared, become an important world leader.

The general, who saw himself as supreme military governor over five states, greater than a mere state governor, believed the power of the Army should be employed to quell dissent.

Germans are dismayed but, says Britta Altenkamp, an SPD member of the state legislature from Essen, they know "they can't have much influence" over such issues in a mere state poll.

As the Guardian revealed in February this year, Santos, played by Jimmy Smits, was eerily like Obama for a reason: the writers of The West Wing had actually modelled their presidential hopeful on the man who was then a mere state senator from Illinois.

How are you going to do that with a mere state of the art hunting rifle?

While such expectancy may not be irrelevant to actual behavior, it is a mere factual state of affairs that cannot by itself make (norms originating in) public law applicable.

Human interaction can sometimes and to some extent eliminate the natural state in this sense – a process facilitated by their prior, and concurrent, emergence from the mere state of humanity.

The chancellor's aides point to the living wage and a business levy to pay for apprenticeships as proof that his agenda is more sophisticated than mere state shrinkage.

If outpatient breast cancer surgery does inflict harmful consequences on patients, as the opponents have suggested, mere state mandated-benefit laws, currently available in more than 20 states [10], may not adequately protect elderly patients enrolled in the Medicare FFS plans.

A mere six states are still in play.