Sentence examples for it cannot be mere from inspiring English sources

But it cannot be mere wishful thinking.

It cannot be mere coincidence that Punjab is unique in largely having been spared violence by the Pakistani Taliban during the campaign.

It cannot be mere chance that one of my professions was image consulting.

This cannot be mere coincidence - somebody has published my life and is exploiting it for commercial reasons.

While the armed forces retool for the future, citizens cannot be mere spectators.

If these reforms are going to work, they cannot be mere words in a rule book.

Apparitions cannot be mere symbols, metaphors or projections: the characters, however warped, must experience them as hauntings, the reader on side.

"We cannot be mere spectators of a tragedy such as the one that is unfolding in Syria," the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, told bishops in Rome, according to a Vatican statement.

In contrast, in the world's poor countries, he says, "wherever the state collapses, development retreats, investment disappears and capital flees".President Chirac, no ex-Trotskyite he, responded to the G8 summit much as Mr Jospin did: "Our democracies, clearly, cannot be mere spectators of globalisation.

Since S's soul does not become a tree frog when thinking of tree frogs (De Anima iii 8, 431b24 30), this form of isomorphism cannot be mere instantiation of the form being a tree frog.

Frank Sinatra's "My Way" is then heard in the background, and Don asks Peggy to dance, saying the timing of the song cannot be mere coincidence.