Sentence examples for mere false from inspiring English sources

And yes, Hillary Clinton's resistance to news conferences does not exactly augur an open hand with the news media either, and I don't add that as mere "false balance".

Were painted frowns to gild mere false rebuff.

Libya were surprise qualifiers for the Africa Cup of Nations, reaching the finals despite the political fighting at home, but is this the start of a bright future or a mere false dawn?

And it doesn't matter whether the law enforcement officers in question are federal, state or local, although, obviously, lying to the federal authorities will be far worse inasmuch as the mere false statement to federal law officers is a stand-alone federal felony.

Why, for example, are the alien ghouls so intent on reading the magazines and newspapers they themselves know to be mere vehicles of false consciousness?

And there wasn't a mere "removal" of false information; it is a completely different article.

As for her Christmas holiday, Ms. Alliot-Marie told reporters there were was no question of her resigning "over false claims, mere assertions".

"If I said I wasn't afraid of anything, then this would be false and mere bravado," Yashin told the Guardian.

"Everything published about this matter is completely false, and mere assumptions that did not come from the forensics authority," Hesham Abdelhamid was quoted as saying in a statement.

Magic is not, contra the prevailing anthropology of the time, mere bad science—'superstitious' false beliefs like that of not walking under ladders because of the evil that will surely follow.

This mere convention is not false; it is simply understood as a mode of perception that is subordinated to the ultimate truth that has been directly experienced in meditation.