Sentence examples for mere defense from inspiring English sources

Take this passage:What we lack is a liberal Utopia, a program which seems neither a mere defense of things as they are nor a diluted kind of socialism We need intellectual leaders who are willing to fight for an ideal, however small may be the prospects of its early realisation.

However, the role of the PPS must go beyond mere defense against nitrosative stress, because interferon-γ-deficient mice that are unable to induce nitrosative stress still show significantly increased survival when infected with a proteasome-depleted Mtb strain versus wild-type Mtb [ 13].

Reviewing Authority's Recommendations: Reviewer states that the defense amounts to a mere denial of all charges.

Smuts declared that the League must not be a mere diplomatic defense against war but "a great organ of the ordinary peaceful life of civilisation…woven into the very texture of our political system," and that in the long run its power to prevent war would depend upon the extent of its action in peace.

The man accused of killing three relatives of the Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson did not take the stand, and his lawyers put on a mere 30-minute defense on Tuesday, calling two detectives in a bid to suggest they botched the 2008 investigation.

Still, EPI's plan is better than the ten-year budget plan recently put out by the Center for American Progress, which would cut a mere $100 billion from defense, on top of cuts authorized already by Congress.

Washington justifiably rejects the notion that Russia should dictate the parameters of NATO missile defense — the mere suggestion of which is enough to prompt a riot on Capitol Hill.

It took mere hours for the defense line of the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters around the oil-rich city to break.

That was a mere 7,000-page 7,000-pagefense department documents in 1971 that incensed the Nixon administration that tried to stop The New York Times, and leakr The Washingtof Post, from publishing government secrets about the country's involvement in the Vietnam War on groundefenseational security.

By this measure, the U.S. government allocating a mere $6 billion to bio-defense and pandemic preparation, while calling for many multiples to build walls, ignores the real danger of one of the world's most serious threats – one that does not check in with customs or conform to airport security screening.

2. Reviewer states that the defense amounts to mere a denial of all charges.