Sentence examples for mere as from inspiring English sources

Nor are they "mere," as the senators' letter would have it.

At that point, Meinl Bank, which was acting through a Jersey-based subsidiary called MERE as MEL's manager, broker and marketmaker, had difficulty placing the fund's share certificates.

Amelia, or Mere, as she is known on the tiny, hidden island where she has lived in seclusion, is summoned to the bedside of the dying Margaret Mead and must decide whether or not to keep a promise made over 40 years earlier.

How does she consider humans — as potentially dangerous enemies, as mere meat, as complex and sentient, or as a lobster-like subspecies?

Evil existed as mere plot complication, as eradicable as a malarial mosquito.

Touchdowns became the objective, and kickers were set apart as mere specialists, as they remain today.

So he dismissed their screams and howls as mere reflexes, as meaningless physiological noise.

Yet all these references were kept in the background, as mere hints, as Ms. Burton brought forward a fresh silhouette.

These responses are often viewed as mere curiosities as their occurrence is limited in space and time.

That King's references to Exodus and Jesus were intended not as mere narrative, but as exhortation to action.

We come to know these qualities for ourselves, not as mere concepts but as elements of our own experience.