Sentence examples for mere efficiency from inspiring English sources

By contrast, the Fascists, stealing what they wanted from socialism and discarding all the noble bits, had shown how efficient a planned economy could be: "The mere efficiency of such a system, the elimination of waste and obstruction, is obvious.... However horrible this system may seem to us, it works".

But mere efficiency cannot account for the sparks that fly with Ms. Zhang's energy, diligence and intangible conductorial chemistry.

However it is dressed up, the requirement for some parts of government activity to fall back in this way cannot be seen as mere "efficiency savings".

This was because the purpose of totalitarian transformation was not mere efficiency — "making the trains run on time," as people used to say of Fascist Italy.

Mere efficiency gains are not attractive enough as a mission to attract the best.

However, besides a mere efficiency enhancement, new strategies should consider both functionality and additional costs of the light management.

Most northern European countries enshrine employment regulations which the average American would consider insane; it's absurdly difficult to fire workers for reasons of mere economic efficiency or mediocre performance.

The battleground for companies now is the full and considered design of their consumers' experience rather than mere technical efficiency.

There are moments when the two categories meet on good terms, but the long stretches between are filled with mere spectacular efficiency".

In the 1900s poverty was usually an absolute concept, which meant, according to Rowntree, that the income of an individual or family was not "sufficient to obtain the minimum necessaries for the maintenance of mere physical efficiency".

However, this paper has emphasized that there are more implications of digital technology then mere increases in efficiency.