Sentence examples for mere decisions from inspiring English sources

Third, the difference between activity and inactivity is anything but "illusory"; if Congress can regulate mere decisions, then it can tell me, for example, that I shouldn't spend time writing letters to the editor.

There are a range of vested interests (commercial, ideological, institutional, methodological, disciplinary), and the mere decision about standards becomes a discourse on "ontology" in the philosophical sense' (2004, xxii).

Graham seems to have little time for a mere Supreme Court decision backed by 47 years of law enforcement precedent.

"The mere scandalous decision to hold the winter games in one of the hot cities of Russia testifies somewhat to megalomania, but from here the problems only gradually piled up".

(Sagi 1997a, 213) Though it is not clear that this would concern Leibowitz, one ought to note that the mere institutional decision to categorize the mitzvoth as holy is not a firm basis for recovering their divinity in any sense that would pacify the religious adherents the nature of whose faith he is attempting to delineate.

He brought it back a little later saying that it tasted like a sack of potatoes!" For Martin, continuing the Beatles' harmonica sound with "From Me to You" was more than a mere creative decision.

Even the mere act of decision-making may be a way for the heavily dependent to remain engaged with life: involvement in decisions, even in seemingly ordinary matters, can be contrasted with the negative affect associated with 'giving in' and losing all interest in life (Stenner, McFarquhar and Bowling 2011).

It is usually accepted that the mere loss of decision-making capacity is insufficient (Dworkin 1993, 222-29).

Stephen King wrote in his book "When the Money Runs Out" thatOnce regarded as mere monetary technicians, their decisions today have less influence on the level of economic activity and more on its distributionThe rise of central banks is part of a wider movement to put technocrats in charge of more areas of policy, in response to the short-termist tendencies of elected politicians.

Although Fischer is still learning his way around the collection and his new staff – the chairman, Sir Richard Lambert, said he occasionally returned white in the face with shock from visits to basement stores, though Fischer insisted that was mere excitement – he said decisions would be made about displaying the collection.

While this is unlikely to be the only contributor to the association between age and end-of-life decisions, the mere possibility should prompt reflection on the part of clinicians caring for critically ill patients.