Sentence examples for keep mere from inspiring English sources

At the Dakota, 740 Park Avenue or 15 Central Park West a gantlet of daunting prices, white-gloved doormen, and in some cases Kremlinesque co-op boards, keep mere mortals from a nirvana of sun-drenched penthouses, richly paneled salons, and squads of porters and concierges who smooth out life's rough patches.

You can even keep mere opinions to yourself most of the time.

(Except, perhaps, for figure skating. In December, ABC's "Skating With the Stars" struggled to keep a mere one million viewers ages 18 to 49).

Why is it that I can stream entire World Cup games in real time at pretty damn impressive resolutions, but you guys can't figure out how to keep a mere audio stream up and running?

Besides all of this, which would keep any mere mortal busy enough, Moore is also a New York Times best-selling author of children's books.

Not only does he have another couple of feet of rippling torso where most mere mortals keep their love handles but he possesses the sort of innate confidence, not to mention close-cropped haircut, which the new England cricket captain Kevin Pieterson might recognise.

But as we are already entering into a "post-constitutional" age in countries like the United States, it is imperative that we reaffirm the value of such public contracts so that to keep them from becoming mere ornaments.

If self-help seems to appeal primarily to a certain class the ruling class and its devoted/indentured subjects and that the cost of rehab with a stunning Pacific Ocean view is beyond most of us mere mortals, keep in mind that repression is most effectively and politely administered economically.

This is a mere suggestion; keep in mind that there are many other types of layouts that you can use.

Four years after Karl Marx characterized religion as "the opiate for the people," Kingsley (probably unaware of Marx's phrase) asserted that the Bible had been wrongly used as "an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded" and as a "mere book to keep the poor in order" (in Politics for the People, 1848).

The power consumption of the module is kept to a mere 7 W.