Sentence examples for hold mere from inspiring English sources

It is a little bit mind boggling to think about the fact that only a few decades ago, our portable media could hold mere kilobytes or megabytes of data.

The second skeptical proposition, that one ought to suspend judgment, the Academics deduced from the first together with the Stoic doctrine that the wise do not hold (mere) opinions (S.E. M 7.155 7).

It is rather that even the view that it is irrational to hold (mere) opinions presupposes a set of epistemological beliefs (i.e., opinions, assuming that knowledge is inaccessible, or has so far proven to be).

On the basis of this result and the Stoic doctrine that the wise, that is human beings as they ought to be, do not hold (mere) opinions (S.E. M 7.155 7), the Academics went on to argue that one ought to suspend judgement about all matters.

Things fall apart; the center can not hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

William Butler Yeats captured the feeling nicely: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

At a press conference held mere moments after Monday's defeat of the $250 billion bailout proposal, several top Republicans nominated a scapegoat for the bill's failure: Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

When Yeats wrote, "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world," he wasn't, of course, referring to tonight, the first St.

"Things fall Apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world". So wrote Yeats in 1919, in the shadow of the "Great" War.

By John Donohue March 17 , 2015When Yeats wrote, "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world," he wasn't, of course, referring to tonight, the first St.

Achebe, after all, lifted the phrase from the astonishing opening stanza of WB Yeats' evisceration of the post-first world war socio-political landscape, The Second Coming ("Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned... .. )... ..