Sentence examples for a mere variant from inspiring English sources
(On closer re-examination, alas, it turned out to be a mere variant).
And making "beg the question" a mere variant of "raise the question" deprives us of a simple way of distinguishing between asking a question and assuming a particular answer to it.
Taoism does not fall under an umbrella or a definition of a single organized religion like the Abrahamic traditions; nor can it be studied as a mere variant of Chinese folk religion, as although the two share some similar concepts, much of Chinese folk religion is separate from the tenets and core teachings of Taoism.
Rather, Gray's hatred of utopianism in all its forms has infected each recent book, so that they have really been mere variants on that same unifying theme.
There, as well as in some other dialects (especially Chilean, Caribbean, and Andalusian Spanish, in the Romanian spoken in Albania, and in northern Occitan), nasal vowels are distinct from their oral counterparts and not mere variants (i.e., they are phonemic).
In general, the three parts of each triad are not mere variants of each other, but address different issues and offer different arguments.
Still, some taxonomists believed that the role of hybridization was greatly exaggerated and that many so called hybrids were not hybrids, but mere variants within species.
These variants explained a mere 1.5% of the BMI variance; this roughly corresponds to 3% of the genetic variance based on an estimated BMI heritability of 0.5.
A first set of methods model LD in a mere data driven way: relative variant frequencies are fitted robustly fit using a sliding window based strategy followed by different smoothing functions [ 3, 7, 9, 11, 12].
They also showed that genetic changes were widespread and rapid: within a mere 15 generations, the frequencies of variants at nearly 5,000 positions in the genome had altered significantly more than expected.
One variant of this move is a direct descendant of Meinong's view on existence as a mere species of being.
