Sentence examples for for mere effect from inspiring English sources

It is not for mere effect that the entrance to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center specifies "Firearms Prohibited".

Computer science has revolutionized work at many engineering firms, but Balmond feels that design software is often used lazily or for mere effect, whereas he hopes that the A.G.U., which he calls "an investigation into a new aesthetic," can make rational principles the basis for generating designs.

But seriously– has any blockbuster so whole-heartedly abandoned meaning for mere misfired effect?

Mr. Schachter of Fenwick & West, for example, said many of his clients had been issuing overly broad noncompete agreements for mere psychological effect, assuming that if an employee ever took them to court, they could escape liability by saying they were not enforcing the agreement.

For Butler, even though the self is the mere effect of repeated gender performances, it is nonetheless real: There are selves, they are socially constructed.

But the mere effect of his candidacy, and his victory, have upset, and perhaps poisoned, the American political order for good.

This suggests that the TMS-effect is distinct from a mere effect of the click-sound.

That gesture for Ms. Mearns and that flat-table exit look like mere effects.

Or are they mere effects?

These are "mere effects," without significant biological consequence, though they may be useful to biologists.

One might also consider as "mere effects" elements that play a causal role in "predefined" systems that are obviously themselves not products of selection, for all they may be of great significance to biologists.