Sentence examples for mere capacity from inspiring English sources

Nor is it the mere capacity of connecting definite sounds with definite ideas; for it is certain that some parrots, which have been taught to speak, connect unerringly words with things, and persons with events.

On the emotional side, one sophisticated capacity that has been proposed is the capacity to care, as distinguished from the mere capacity to desire.

Consent theorists reject, therefore, Kant's idea in the Metaphysics of Morals (§ 44) that the mere capacity of A to violently affect B's interests is sufficient licence for anyone to subject them both to a regime of positive law.

Precisely the opposite is offered, namely that institutional solutions based on science and economics engaged at levels beyond our mere capacities are working fast and furious to save the day.

Of these venues, Pompeii is the smallest – a mere 3,000 capacity compared with 17,000 in Rome.

At a mere 17% capacity, the usually scenic reservoir favored by boaters and sunbathers looks like the set of "Mad Max".

I'm still not sure if this is the worst piece of junk to be produced in album form in the last 20 years, or genius at a level so brilliant it's beyond my mere mortal capacity to appreciate it.

Indeed, here is a competitive quest for open-access merit which offers much more leeway to all contestants whatever their physical strength, thus favoring the exploitation of all sorts of other individual qualities beyond mere antagonistic capacity.

Just after Labor Day, the show reported it was playing to a mere 61percentt of capacity -- a level associated with shows of either twice its age or half its charm.

One could argue that mere potential cognitive capacity is insufficient for FMS or even a weaker moral status.

In 1982, Syed Iftikar, an Asian-Indian immigrant, started SyQuest to make products that would supplement floppy disks, with a mere 1.44 MB capacity.