Sentence examples for a mere strategy from inspiring English sources

His opponents reckon that his new focus on economics may have been a mere strategy to secure a big upper-house win.

This is code for winning hearts and minds, for sheer and subtle manipulation, and it suggests that trust is a mere strategy for doing so.

O'Sullivan is dead now, and the argument could just be a mere legal strategy and as "ridiculous", as prosecutor Brian Kelly says it is.

I must object to The New York Times's characterizing as a mere "ratings strategy" Bob Woodruff's and Doug Vogt's reporting when they were seriously wounded in Iraq (front page, Jan . 30.

This is much larger than a mere organizing strategy.

By the end of the week, it was normalized, a mere matter of strategy — would it win votes?

Apps are no longer a mere "brand presence" strategy for enterprises.

However, besides a mere efficiency enhancement, new strategies should consider both functionality and additional costs of the light management.

As if the corporate takeover of a London council's housing strategy was a mere banal detail.

The freshmen senator is clearly within that category: indeed, reports that Rand Paul has asked veteran political operatives to assemble for a strategy session a mere eight days after the midterms all but confirms that he is seriously getting ready to put his hat in the ring.

A poll by the Pew Research Centre this week finds that 60% of those asked think the decision was right, a proportion that has hardly budged over the summer.So declining opinion-poll support should probably be seen as evidence of a failure by the administration to articulate its aims, and explain its military strategy, rather than a mere dislike of casualties.