Sentence examples for mere commercial from inspiring English sources

Director David Fincher cannot be accused of mere commercial opportunism.

A calendar, a mere commercial spin-off with Tolkien-style drawings, sells 300,000 a year.

Their mainstream audience should flee now, but Congratulations is more than mere commercial suicide.

They are not mere commercial trademarks to him, but pieces of Americana.

It was precisely such claims to universal application that converted laisser faire and Marx's surplus value from mere commercial theories into implacable social moralities.

When football became professional in the late 1880s and clubs formed limited companies to protect their members from personal liability for the expenses, the Football Association imposed rules to prevent these clubs becoming mere commercial vehicles.

The Smashing Pumpkins have been praised for being "responsible for some of the most striking and memorable video clips" and for having "approached videos from a completely artistic standpoint rather than mere commercials to sell albums".

If any case involves no more than "mere duplication for commercial purposes," it is this one.

Practical learning, Nunn believed, laid the foundation for intellectual and worldly accomplishment, and he wanted his employees to be more than "mere automatons or commercial slaves".

In Acuff-Rose Music, 114 S. Ct. at 1l77, the Court did not presume harm because "[n]o 'presumption' or inference of market harm that might find support in Sony is applicable to a case involving something beyond mere duplication for commercial purposes". (emphasis added).

That's something only I, and a few million others, a mere handful by commercial measures, got to savour.