Sentence examples for mere failure from inspiring English sources

"This was not a mere failure to preserve documents," the government wrote.

But the liberal collapse went deeper than a mere failure to match Nixon's sloganeering.

"Old's our game," says the woman (not the poet) who speaks in the sonnet "We Own the Alternative": "Mere failure to be young is not interesting".

If he does not it will be because he has had a brush with catastrophe; he does not do mere failure.

After reading his letter, I must conclude that what seemed to be a mere failure to see (Kant's Nichtverstehen) is in fact a terrified refusal to know.

The court also said that "mere failure to declare a bank account may be qualified — at the utmost — as tax evasion, which is not subject to administrative assistance".

The same appeals court previously threw out Mr. Bruno's December 2009 conviction on honest services mail fraud charges after the United States Supreme Court ruled in a separate case that the statute criminalizes only bribery and kickback schemes, not mere failures to disclose conflicts of interest.

While Ferguson's words were more than mere niceties, failure would be a traumatic surprise to him, and the Champions League holders must anticipate going on to meet Villarreal or Arsenal in the last four.

At the age of twenty-six, he boldly declared that a fundamental belief concerning the universe, religiously held since the time of Newton, was a mere prejudice a failure of the human being to recognize obvious human limitations.

If a plane goes down over the ocean, it might be deemed mere engine failure.

They have accused DeArthur and Andrew Allen of stepping beyond the limits of mere business failure into outright fraud and theft.