Sentence examples for as a mere collateral from inspiring English sources

Every enacted calamity is presented as a mere collateral accident.

Apparently you and I are meant to consider all those accidental killings as mere "collateral damage," or else we're not meant to consider them at all.

Goldstone, however, used the account of the air strike as a sign that Israel's attack on the mill was not mere collateral damage, but precisely targeted and a possible war crime.

Zainab Bangura, the UN's special representative on sexual violence in conflict, said conflict-related rape was no longer considered "a marginal issue, an inevitable by-product of war or mere collateral damage.

As it is, our dedicated, blue-collar soldiers are mere "collateral damage" in the view of our decision makers, and the kids on campus can party on.

In their view, the innocent lives lost would be mere collateral damage".

In warfare, the destruction of heritage was long considered mere collateral damage.

The candidates chewed up and flung aside by this process are mere collateral damage.

She stood exposed as a mere painter.

Dismiss tarot cards as a mere superstition.

They dismiss their political connections as a mere bagatelle.