Sentence examples for mere construction from inspiring English sources

That mode of redress is absolutely forbidden by the 11th Amendment, and cannot be made legal by mere construction, or by any consideration of the consequences that may follow from the operation of the statute.

When this activity was first introduced, undue importance was often placed upon the mere construction of figures according to certain set methods and upon the painstaking preparation of a showing, so that the creative release of the performance was long delayed and sometimes never reached.

As already stated, it was not the intention of congress to aid in the mere construction of the roadbed or roadway, but to aid in the construction of the railroad as such, which term had a far more extended signification than the mere track or roadway.

In the preface to Bodies that Matter Butler reports a common response to her work: "What about the materiality of the body, Judy? … an effort … to recall me to a bodily life that could not be theorised away … for surely bodies live and eat; eat and sleep; feel pain and pleasure; endure illness and violence; and these facts … cannot be dismissed as mere construction" (1993 ix).

SOUTH GLENDALE — One week before city officials are due to give an update on a delayed project for New Horizons Family Center, revelations of financial troubles at the nonprofit suggest problems run deeper than mere construction setbacks.

Even aside from these tuning details, the mere construction of a subject domain theory is a complex and error-prone task.

Stumpf argues rather that Kant's synthetic judgments presuppose a kind of "mental machinery" (Stumpf, 2008, Bogen 16 3) in order to account for their formation, as they involve numerous assumptions, notably the a priori forms of sensibility, intuition, and the Denkformen, which Stumpf takes to be mere constructions.

It is to admit that the aggregates are understood as unified through a mere conceptual construction, "person," just as the taste, touch, and smell of milk generate the conceptual construction, "milk".

What Croce called 'Sensationalism', on the other hand, regards only instantaneous impressions of colour and the like as existing, the rest being in some sense a mere logical construction out of it, of no independent reality.

Epistemic pluralism makes sense because it recognizes the role of perspective (as well as culture and interest) in experience and the process of inquiry.3 Ontological pluralism makes sense because it recognizes the experience of differences so sharp that they cannot be the product of mere human construction.4 In the end, this approach focuses on the things taken to be plural, knowledge or worlds.

The mere building of a room does not build it for the camera, and this should be the aim of all construction.