It is not by chance that high fashion causes mere mortals to grin with fright.
Some other-regarding conduct causes mere offense, not genuine harm (IV 3; IV 12).
Given our focus on the Hume-Newton relationship no stance on the most controversial issue in Hume scholarship are taken: are causes mere (psychological) regularity or are they found in nature.
Is the distinction between real causes and mere background conditions merely an arbitrary and unsystematic affair?
To make your presidential agenda seem a cause, press mere speech into full song!
Whatever the cause, the mere listing of the details of his ordeal constitutes an act of cruelty.
Anticipating such claims, undercover agents in Mr. Mohamud's case offered him several nonfatal ways to serve his cause, including mere prayer.
As Hart and Honore put it: "The contrast of cause with mere conditions is an inseparable feature of all causal thinking, and constitutes as much the meaning of causal expressions as the implicit reference to generalizations does".
It appears to be a statistically significant move, not one caused by mere chance.
The Justice Department lawyers said the analysis indicated that there was almost no possibility the discrepancy could be caused by mere chance.
