Sentence examples for mere compounds from inspiring English sources

Goldie resists both reductive theories which regard emotions as mere compounds of belief and desire, and "add-on theories" that view them as beliefs and desires plus something else — such as feelings, for example.

Compounding the dishonor, the mere sight of these children -- those who aren't abandoned -- can bring on savage memories to survivors.

The word mermaid is a compound of the Old English mere (sea), and maid (a girl or young woman).

Netflix compounded its rise from a mere mail order DVD service to a paradigm-shifting distribution company last year with a raft of commissions that broke the rules for how television is both made and consumed.

Disputes have broken out over rugs moved mere inches, or dust swept from one compound into another.

Dalton's atoms were no longer considered to be immutable and indivisible; new elementary particles sometimes appeared on the scene; and molecules were no longer seen as a mere juxtaposition of atoms: when entering into a compound, atoms became ions.

This is compounded by the fact that the mere presence of MRSA in stool does not prove its pathogenicity.

All values are in counts To test whether the occurrence of compound microsatellites can be attributed to mere chance, we determined whether microsatellites tend to aggregate with respect to an assumed random distribution of microsatellites in the genome.

Compounding the challenge is that 3LD is no mere storefront theater; its sophisticated video and computer hardware and software are expensive to maintain.

And it is true that some of her visual compositions that seemed especially acute and concentrated in a miniaturized image may have become oblique and diffuse when compounded, in real life, by the fact of mere bigness.

The Dictionary of Natural Products as of March 2009 (Ji et al., 2009) listed ∼214,000 compounds, though the "common core" of modern metabolism comprises a mere ∼500 compounds (Dobson, 2004; Smith and Morowitz, 2004), and there are perhaps a few thousand total low-molecular-weight compounds found in the human body (Goto et al., 2002).