Sentence examples for for being mere from inspiring English sources

Second-world states won't be subdued: in the age of network power, they won't settle for being mere export markets.

Without making such scenarios explicit, we run the risk of dismissing signs of trauma for being mere flights of drama.

Scott Bemand's late score for Quins was mere consolation for a second home defeat of the season.

However, my fondness for bookmarks is mere fair-weather stuff compared to that of some people.

Starting a company is difficult, but the travails that befall a founder — the "trough of sorrow," for example — are mere way stations on the path to glory.

Seneca praises poverty and argues that the wise man will allow neither joy nor grief to affect him, for both are mere distractions.

Yet much of what passes for education is mere idolization of books — transferring the "sacredness which applies to the act of creation…to the record".

It seems to be showing them up for what they are, mere props for man's self-aggrandisement and myth-making.

His work for the administration was mere prelude for a career worthy of a tropical Renaissance man: documentary filmmaker, educational television executive, illustrator and classical composer.

For her, it is mere drudgery.

But for Jones, they are mere toys, they are playthings.