Sentence examples for mere check from inspiring English sources

That part of the country was supposedly a "free zone," and the men at first wonder why they have been detained, some thinking it is for a mere check of identity papers.

A mere check of the biracial designation on his census form would not spare Obama from any of the routine petty racial harassments and annoyances -- the subtle and outright forms of discrimination.

It is possible that the addition of ethics coursework could be seen as a mere "check in the box" to secure ongoing fiscal support in the face of widespread university and federal budgetary cuts.

If you are inclined to dismiss G8 meetings as mere theatre, check the recent commitments to automatic information exchange in Luxembourg, the Caribbean and east Asia.

Not only will dismantling Title I widen the gross inequities between affluent and less affluent schools and families, but also it will result in a mere $580 check for each child if all 25 million poor students in the U.S. received an equal share of the pot.

Obama failed even to get mere background checks.

My home state of Rhode Island had a mere 0.16 checks per resident.

And most of the sex scenes that provide mere box-checking could do without nudity could be done with faces, hands, gestures, or other more inventive implications; the rest is pornography.

Mere error-checking is not enough; and the stress on veridicality is correct insofar as description of the functioning of the representational mechanism needs to invoke the target being represented (or misrepresented).

While everyone at i/o will get an invite, mere mortals can check out the service and sign up for an invite at music.google.com/about.com/about

And last I checked, mere mortals need sleep, healthy food, and good relationships at a minimum to move forward.