Sentence examples for mere individual from inspiring English sources

In the view of many, it wasn't mere individual banks that failed.

The Miser is no mere individual, but rather a state of mind.

Importantly, the intent of this study was to provide evidence to motivate public, private, and government healthcare administrators' recognition of current shortcomings, to optimize performance as a whole system, rather than mere individual aspects.

Was this writer a mere individual possessed of his own free will, he would have quite happily let the xx's subtle majesty slip him into a trance before wandering home woozy and spellbound.

Investigating the specific issue of creativity over the life cycle of artists, and showing that movements and interactions play an important part in the picture, the paper thus suggests there is something more than the mere individual involved in artistic creativity.

Adam seems to be offering a familiar postmodern defense of poetry: we are all trapped in modes of inauthenticity, all of us mediated by discourses more powerful than the mere individual's ("capital or whatever you wanted to call it"); the poet cannot evade this mass imprisonment but can at least write from a position of self-conscious marginality.

But the entire theory of identity politics was that we are not mere individuals.

Facts, fascinating facts, are the bones of his fable, and who doubts that the C.I.A. really exists and that describing how nations and corporate entities relate to one another brings more important news than describing the relations of mere individuals?

Whatever the merits of these bottom-up, user-driven responses to the affront, it was soon apparent that neither the Pakistani state nor the opportunistic Pakistani fringe politicians, who lurk in the nether region where the plankton mist of perceived persecution meets the vent of ready violence, would allow this moment to be left to the conscience of mere individuals.

It is understood to include a 'condition produced by the acts of mere individuals.' Its dominant thought now is, to quote another, 'the notion of exclusiveness or unity;' in other words, the suppression of competition by the unification of interest or management, or it may be through agreement and concert of action.

Are we mere individuals, exercising our right to free speech?