Sentence examples for mere conception from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, often in practice it becomes a mere conception.

This characterization highlights the difference between an obstacle and a mere conception.

(Mikyö Dorje 2006: 273) Therefore conventional truth is "one that is devoid of an intrinsic reality, rather it is mere name (ming tsam), mere sign (rda tsam), mere linguistic convention (tha snyad tsam), mere conception (rnam par rtog pa tsam) and mere fabrication (sgro btags pa tsam)—one that merely arises or ceases due to the force of the expressions or the conceptual linguistic convention".

And then they're delivered, mere weeks after conception, ready to last a lifetime.

Who wouldn't feel for Matt, having to choose between Ann Merai and Alex? (It's a plight worthy of Solomon, or perhaps Snoop Dogg.) Ms. Lathan's acute sensitivity balances the mere plot-device-conception of Ann Merai, and her moodiness seems to be a logical reaction to her brutish husband, a onetime football star whose glory days are over.

In asserting that women have the superpower to repel rape sperm, Akin ratcheted up the old chauvinist argument that gals who wear miniskirts and high-heels are "asking" for rape; now women who don't have the presence of mind to conjure up a tubal spasm, a drone hormone, a magic spermicidal secretion or mere willpower to block conception during rape are "asking" for a baby.

It was not possible to identify in their interviews neither an effort to construct a socially shared meaning to attribute to death, nor the mere possibility of alternative conceptions.

This can't be mere titillation, though; Daniel's conception is surely above that.

It planned to turn out preachers and judges and legislators and missionaries and business men who had a larger conception of business than mere accumulation.

It's only necessary to defend someone against the charge of being a mere observer if you have a narrow conception of realism, and observation.

Through his many books on the history of anarchism, Paul Avrich has done much to dispel the public's conception of the anarchists as mere terrorists.