The phrase "allow mere" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a limitation or permission regarding something trivial or insignificant, but it lacks context to be effectively used.
Example: "I cannot allow mere distractions to interfere with my work."
Alternatives: "permit only trivial" or "allow just insignificant".
In chemistry, however, it is important not to allow mere correlations to masquerade as explanations.
Randall Morck, the academic, finds that in large parts of the world pyramidical business groups allow "mere handfuls of wealthy families" to control entire economies (see chart 5, for a schematic view of how this works).
That switch followed an internal debate between senior State Department and Pentagon lawyers over whether the Geneva Conventions allow mere supporters of an enemy force, picked up far from any combat zone, to be treated just like members of the enemy organization.
The idea of plays, as they figured within his work, allowed mere mortals to recreate the world, to give form to voids, to transform anger into ecstasy and to speak like angels, or how angels might sound if heaven were a penthouse with views of the park.
Social media platforms have democratized the process of web content creation allowing mere consumers to become creators and distributors of content.
One of the successful stocking-fillers of last Christmas was the GCHQ puzzle book, which allowed mere mortals to wrestle with fiendish conundrums produced by the folk at the intelligence and security organisation.
The relaxation of centromeric chromatin allows mere 15 kb of DNA from each centromere to form a 5-μm loop and to readily span the distance of rapidly separating sister centromeres.
But Koster said: "This court should not allow the mere pendency of ongoing federal litigation to effectively eliminate capital punishment in Missouri simply because the lawsuits outlast the department's supply of propofol".
The statement from the White House on the Moore story began with the caveat "Like most Americans, the President believes that we cannot allow a mere allegation — in this case, one from many years ago — to destroy a person's life".
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was accompanying Trump as he traveled from China to Vietnam on Friday, said, "Like most Americans, the president does not believe we can allow a mere allegation, in this case one from many years ago, to destroy a person's life.
The court's membership has changed since the 5-to-4 decision in June in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, which said that the Sixth Amendment's confrontation clause, which gives a criminal defendant the right "to be confronted with the witnesses against him," does not allow the mere presentation of a lab report to prove, say, that white powder found with a defendant was cocaine.
