Sentence examples for mere achievement from inspiring English sources

We may be two, three or even four down by the time we manage it, but the mere achievement of putting the ball in the net has me giddy with joy.

So they have decamped for Garsington, which, they say, is the way Glyndebourne used to be: more intimate; less slick; and -- with 500 seats and a 20-evening season -- the sort of event at which audience members can congratulate themselves on the mere achievement of being there.

Also untrue is that mere achievement of profit sends a stock exponential, except in a bubble.

But if this prize is about more than mere statistical achievement – and it is – then Strauss is overdue acknowledgement.

So this record of 86 goals is an artificial construct, a figure that celebrates Messi but also reduces his achievement to mere quantity.

"The mere contact is an achievement under these circumstances," said Ozdem Sanberk, a retired senior Turkish diplomat who is director of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, the conference sponsor.

No mention in yesterday's Fiver of Swansea City's remarkable achievement, a mere eight seasons after being one defeat away from departing the League, in reaching the Premier League?

The significance of Clinton's achievement transcends mere symbolism: As a black man, the presidency of Barack Obama has impacted me in ways that are hard to describe, despite frequent political differences.

But those already astonishing achievements are mere upbeats for what Sibelius is doing in the Seventh.

Macri has dismissed these unprecedented human rights achievements as mere political showmanship.

Mere survival will be an achievement.