Sentence examples for mere instance of from inspiring English sources

Alice, ever antisocial, refuses to become another number, a mere instance of a peculiar species rather than a world unto herself.

The mere instance of a variant does not mean an individual has a disease or is certain to develop it.

This however places a considerable burden on the imagination theory, and while one might want to accept that dream beliefs are too defective to count as real ones, the same might not be true for mere instances of thinking or wondering.

Bolsonaro tends to wipe away his calls for violence as mere instances of "sarcasm" and "humor" ― to borrow a popular piece of sophistry from Trump's rise to power, he wants Brazilians to take him seriously, but not literally.

To say that a work of art has style is to invoke a standard for judging it, but one that cannot be specified in the form of a general law of which the work would be a mere instance.

Words do not signify particular entities of any kind which come into being and disappear, but the corresponding universals which are eternal and of which the transient individuals are mere instances.

There is only the merest hint, for instance, of Bill Conti's theme music from the earlier Rocky instalments.

Detroit, more than a mere metaphor, is a striking and large-scale instance of something that has become pervasively wrong in America.

Zimmerman (2008), for instance, objects to (P1) by noting that the rationale for the claim that a human animal is located where you are—in effect, that it is just obvious that there is an instance of the species Homo sapiens currently located where you are—extends equally to such things as "mere hunk of matter", "mere body", "psychological person", and the like.

A person avoids treating another as a mere object or instrument if he is attentive to whether his parter is giving, tacitly or overtly, ongoing consent to the type of use and the particular instance of it.

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