Sentence examples for mere individuals from inspiring English sources

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.

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

Large groups are more effective at expressing hate than mere individuals.

If we are to be mere individuals, we must recall that the right to swing our fists -- and opinions -- ends at the tip of our subjects' noses.

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.

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.

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.

Heuristically, these three consistency challenges allow for an analysis that concerns prescribed patterns of interaction rather than focusing on mere individual rules.