Sentence examples for a mere stepping from inspiring English sources

"I apologized to Olive in my karmic universe, but I also said to Olive, 'I will throw you down!' " "God," I said, "a mere stepping stone!" She shrugged.

Tuesday's win over Brazil at Wembley had taken it to a level that had never previously been reached, to the extent that tonight's encounter was being viewed by some as nothing more than a mere stepping stone towards a last four showdown with another of the game's superpowers.

It's been Apple's mission to destroy Android, and HTC is but a mere stepping stone.

This isn't to say everyone who makes shorts has only seen them as a mere stepping stone.

Carlin chafes at the idea that podcasting will soon become a mere stepping stone to greater glory.

Dance itself can readily be reduced to a mere step, since after all it is only the act of dancing that is essential.

It's so easy to say, "Yes, I accept your apology," but that could be just a mere step away from saying, "Yes, I accept you".

Or there's the capital Geneva, a mere step behind Zurich in the lifestyle stakes, which has a competitive property market and is a global financial hub that demands accommodation for its discerning long-term tenants.

Judges are increasingly acknowledging that class-action certification, designed to be a mere step in the litigation process, all too often puts defendants under unbearable pressure to settle, even when they have a reasonable chance of winning on merit.

"My cynicism had reached such depths that I regarded those horrors" — the wartime camps, and the killings that came afterward — "as a mere step toward the great, ubiquitous, universal crime, Death, the premise of all our lives," he writes.

His age regarded letter writing as an art on which could be expended the literary care appropriate to the essay or to fiction, and, for Richardson, the creation of epistolary novels entailed a mere step from the actual world into that of the imagination.