Sentence examples for exist not merely from inspiring English sources

For Arendt, therefore, the polis stands for the space of appearance, for that space "where I appear to others as others appear to me, where men exist not merely like other living or inanimate things, but to make their appearance explicitly".

Hitler and Stalin shared the goal of obliterating Poland's political and cultural life, so that Poland would, according to historian Niall Ferguson, "cease to exist not merely as a place, but also as an idea".

Those recommendations are brought together in these overall recommendations from the evaluators to: Place the baby and mother/parents at center of supportive healthcare environment and the reason for the service to exist, not merely as objects of the health care process.

The money will go towards education and support, particularly for the widows and orphans of Rwanda in order to ensure that the survivors of the genocide can live, not merely exist.

We exist not to glorify God, nor to exercise rationality, nor to bring about any particular conditions of society, but merely because we are assemblages of successful replicators.

This is the driving force of his positive solution to the Problem of Civil Rights call it the Natural Rights Argument which begins by asserting that rights exist, and not merely in the conventional or partial sense of public sympathy.

(Theorem-proving aficionados will note that this is true negation, not negation-as-failure; we need to know that no ortholog exists, not that we have merely failed to find one.

The three years I have spent here made me understand that you have to live and not merely exist.

So that than which nothing greater can be thought must exist in reality, not merely in the understanding.

The attitude in question comprises two components: the assumption that the practice does not merely exist, but has a purpose or point, and the further assumption that the rules of the practice are not necessarily what they have always been taken to be, but rather are sensitive to, and can be revised in light of, its point (Dworkin 1986 ch.2; also, the entry on interpretivist theories of law).

Such an event or object does not merely exist symbolically within your mind or memory -- but in your terms its actual reality continues as time event.