Sentence examples for mere collection from inspiring English sources

An aggregate collectivity is a mere collection of individuals such as a crowd or the people standing at a bus stop or a statistical category such as middle-income earners.

But the book is by no means a mere collection of previously published essays...

On the surface, the conversation might seem like a mere collection of scary stories about good cheese gone bad.

The coherent whole that results is considered to show the truth more completely than would a mere collection of parts.

It is no mere collection of papers, but offers quality research from worldwide experts in a systematic and cohesive way.

She had her own ideas about the project, however, one of them being that it should be a "real teaching book" rather than a mere collection of recipes.

Are diversified firms mere collections of independent assets, or is there anything that glues together different businesses?

"The fact that we human beings – who are ourselves mere collections of fundamental particles of nature – have been able to come this close to an understanding of the laws governing us and our universe is a great triumph".

We need to recruit financially savvy managers from industrial companies with strong corporate cultures, such as Nestlé and P&G, and let them run the banking world.As long as banks remain mere collections of individuals, the situation will continue to be like herding cats.

As health enterprises have grown both horizontally and vertically in the past decade, they have almost invariably taken to calling themselves "health systems". This term poorly describes what are in many places mere collections of health assets with a common brand name.

These incidents suggest that a great many problems in organizational design stem from the assumption that organizations are all alike: mere collections of component parts to which elements of structure can be added and deleted at will, a sort of organizational bazaar.