Sentence examples for but of mere from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, Ben doesn't go into the full Trilateral-Commission-and-Bilderberg-conspiracy rant; he cautions his eldest son, Bodevan (George MacKay), a self-described Maoist, that Marxists are also capable of evil; and, despite the quasi-military training and discipline that he imposes on the children, he preaches a doctrine not of violent revolution but of mere self-reliance.

But enough of mere incident.

They find him intolerant of not just crime but also of mere suspicious behavior, to a degree unusual even for a police commissioner, who, after all, is judged on the safety of his city.

For example, in IV.vi.11 he says that knowledge of the real essence of an object entails knowledge of all of its powers, but knowledge of mere material structure cannot entail that kind of knowledge.

"But your history was born, not out of mere choice, but out of necessity, in the face of racism, and in the aftermath of the Civil War".

But after a matter of mere months I became bored.

Pathologic ECM remodeling and the subsequent disruption of the intact pulmonary scaffold development not only hinders the formation of the alveolar and vascular network but exceeds the effect of mere structural changes by impacting cell fate [18].

But if sovereignty is a matter of authority, it is not a matter of mere authority, but of supreme authority.

But some still suspect him of mere window-dressing.

Maybe so; but what about the man of mere talent?

Cinéma-vérité, in short, is a cinema not of mere observation but of immersive engagement.