Sentence examples for fits mere from inspiring English sources

To downgrade the Church of England to a mere institution, and to imply that loyalty to it is unworthy, sits remarkably strangely with their declarations to the Queen but fits mere "formal administrative links".

The slickness of the guiding operation provided by local Sherpas combined with huge advances in equipment and technology have put the mountain summit within reach of most averagely fit mere mortals.

Ultimately, on election night in 2010 here, the space in front of all the television cameras fit a mere 150 people.

In "American Movie Critics," a Library of America collection drawn from the work of almost 70 high-profile professional critics active at various times since their preferred medium was invented the day before yesterday the whole history of narrative movies for exhibition still fits inside a mere hundred years most of the practitioners fall neatly into one category or the other.

No longer, it seemed, was Scots a mere "dialect" fit only for simple homespun sentiment or comic effect: in the hands of a polymath such as MacDiarmid it stood revealed as an omnicompetent national "language".

Measuring a mere 4.84 inches by 7.95 inches when closed, the device fits easily into almost any bag or jacket pocket.

In developing this new account, Scanlon's initial motivation is similar to that of Sher, since Scanlon thinks that an adequate account of blame must fit somewhere between a mere judgment that another has acted in some objectionable way and a sanction (of which expressed reactive emotions are but one paradigm case).

This is a standard element in the biography of most poets, but it fits awkwardly with the myth of Bukowski the tough, who constantly proclaims his contempt for mere bookishness.

It weighs only 2.95 pounds and measures a mere one inch thin, so it can be easily taken anywhere as it fits into a backpack, briefcase or purse.

An alumnus replied to the message, suggesting mere borderline personality disorder, and adding, "It goes back almost to Freud, and it fits this guy like a counterfeit Armani suit".

Williams relied on more than mere power, coming forward to put away a volley on the first point, hitting delicate slice backhands and giving Suarez Navarro fits with her slice serve.