Sentence examples for called mere from inspiring English sources

In this move to serve what Mr. Twogood called "mere mortals" in the business world, however, Teradata did need some help.

Ms. Moore also snapped up a painting by the Belgian artist Alfred Stevens, from 1883, called "Mere et Ses Enfants," for $200,500.

When our ferocious anger was raised against the rottenness of oppression and darkness, our revolt was called chaos, and we were called mere thieves.

At that point, Meinl Bank, which was acting through a Jersey-based subsidiary called MERE as MEL's manager, broker and marketmaker, had difficulty placing the fund's share certificates.

His sufferings are too relentless and dehumanising to be called mere hardship – this is a significant, affecting book of the dispossessed.

What Henry James, himself now part of the past and available as a theme-park exhibit, breathlessly called the "palpable present intimate that throbs responsive" is pointedly neglected in favor of what he called "mere escamotage... the little facts that can be got from pictures and documents, relics and prints".

Two large lakes, called meres, were formed alongside the castle by damming a local stream.

The area around the castle was dominated by three shallow artificial lakes, called meres, and accessed by three gates on the north, west and south sides.

Dunstanburgh Castle was built in the center of a designed medieval landscape, surrounded by three artificial lakes called meres covering a total of 4.25 hectare.

To the dissidents, there is a critical distinction between the reforms of past weeks — which one political leader calls mere "corrective measures" — and the deeper changes in everything from education to the economy that they believe would enable Myanmar to rise again.

The third order of beauty belongs to that "which forms not only such as we call mere forms but even the forms which form" (Ibid).