There is more at stake here than a mere by-election.
The building's curiously pleasing exterior angles are, in a sense, a mere by-product.
taxi-drivers believe the stop-skipping, passenger-evasion and blocking, asphyxiation and pedestrian-frightening mere by-products of their drive to clog.
The ability of Hamilton's equation to cut across life forms suggested that it was a general principle of social behavior, and that many of the most important examples of biological coöperation were mere by-products of genetic relatedness.
For all its strict aesthetic formalism (Kim studied painting in Paris), there is a lingering sense that the film has arrived by accident and that its tender pleasures are mere by-products of an altogether more sinister endeavour.
(How, after all, are we supposed to know whether it is like something to be a bat?) And that intuition can perhaps be explained away as a mere by-product of imaginative identification with the animal.
However, one may argue that such an effect could be a mere by-product of joint attention phenomena.
This yields an unwanted emphasis on 'irrelevant' connections as they may be a mere by-product of the noise in neural data, in particular in networks with low average connectivity.
We present data that challenges the notion that intronic RNAs are mere by-standers in the cell.
It suggests that the posterior distributions recovered when considering full sequence alignments are driven by the sequence information and are not mere by-products of the sampling structure in our dataset.
